Take a Valium, Lose Your Kid, Go to Jail
In Alabama, anti-drug fervor and abortion politics have turned a meth-lab law into the country's harshest weapon against pregnant women.
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Why It’s So Hard to Know Whether the Murder Rate is Rising
Podcast: ProPublica reporters discuss news suggesting that national homicide rates are on the rise – and debunk dubious theories that have been offered to explain them.
New Court Docs: Maker of Tylenol Had a Plan to Block Tougher Regulation
Filings from a lawsuit, scheduled to go to trial today in Atlantic City, describe a previously unreported lobbying campaign by McNeil Consumer Healthcare to protect its iconic painkiller.
De Blasio’s Pre-K Program Adds 12,000 Kids, Only 195 Come from Poorest ZIP Codes
Experts say the poorest children are the ones who need pre-kindergarten the most.
How Senate Hopefuls Keep Donors Secret From Voters Until It’s Too Late
U.S. Senate campaign finance disclosures are still slow-walked on paper through a 40-year-old system. Is getting it fixed worth trading away another lid on political money?
Everyone’s Juicing
Latest raids of undercover steroid labs suggest the market for steroids goes way beyond the world of elite athletes.
‘American Red Cross Sunshine Act’ Would Open Charity to Outside Scrutiny
A House bill is being released today along with a government report citing a lack of oversight about how the charity spends the millions of dollars donated by Americans.
Trial And Error: A Man Convicted of Murder Wins Release, and Questions of Responsibility Linger
It turns out Brooklyn prosecutors for years hid the evidence Ruddy Quezada had sought to win a new trial. Who should pay?
The Roots, Rhetoric and Remedies of Europe’s Migrant Crisis Explained
Podcast: ProPublica senior reporter Sebastian Rotella gives context behind the headlines on the refugee crisis gripping Europe.
Q&A: Can a Divided Europe Handle the Refugee Crisis?
Deaths at sea and a chaotic refugee influx reflect the failure of European Union leaders to settle on a common immigration policy, one of Italy’s top elected officials tells ProPublica.
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Exploring Quality of Care in the U.S.
More than 1 million patients suffer harm each year while being treated in the U.S. health care system. Even more receive substandard care or costly overtreatment. Our ongoing investigation of patient safety features in-depth reporting, discussion and tools for patients.
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‘American Red Cross Sunshine Act’ Would Open Charity to Outside Scrutiny
A House bill is being released today along with a government report citing a lack of oversight about how the charity spends the millions of dollars donated by Americans.
Unforgiven
The Long Life of Debt
The way lenders and collectors pursue consumer debt has undergone an aggressive transformation in America. Collectors today don’t give up easy, often pursuing debts for years. It’s now routine for companies to sue debtors, then seize their wages or the cash in their bank accounts. For many people, these changes have profoundly affected their lives.
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Killing the Colorado
The Truth Behind the Water Crisis in the West
The Colorado River is dying – the victim of legally sanctioned overuse, the relentless forces of urban growth, willful ignorance among policymakers and a misplaced confidence in human ingenuity. ProPublica investigates the policies that are putting this precious resource in peril.
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Insult to Injury
America’s Vanishing Worker Protections
Driven by big business and insurers, states nationwide are dismantling workers’ compensation, slashing benefits to injured workers and making it more difficult for them to get care. Meanwhile employers are paying the lowest rates for workers’ comp insurance since the 1970s.
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A Home for California's Most Troubled Children Comes Undone
How a home for troubled children came undone and what it means for California’s chance at reform.
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