Over the previous 12 months, ProPublica has revealed lots of of investigations.
In January, Kyle Hopkins of the Anchorage Day by day Information examined why a sexual assault case took seven years to go to trial in Alaska. In March, our video journalists instructed the tales of three moms combating to deal with America’s stillbirth disaster. In August, a staff throughout the newsroom calculated how deeply President Donald Trump’s administration lower federal well being companies. And in December, Megan Rose and Debbie Cenziper reported how the Meals and Drug Administration’s lax generic drug guidelines put a lung transplant affected person’s life in danger.
Listed below are 25 long-reads so as to add to your end-of-year studying listing. You can even discover our most-read tales of the 12 months.
1. Anchorage Police Say They Witnessed a Sexual Assault in Public. It Took Seven Years for the Case to Go to Trial.
By Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Day by day Information. Co-published with Anchorage Day by day Information.
Printed Jan. 7.
In Alaska, the place the time to resolve most severe felony instances has almost tripled over the previous decade, one case was delayed so lengthy that each victims died. A former prosecutor referred to as it “a travesty of justice.”
2. Dozens of Individuals Died in Arizona Sober Dwelling Properties as State Officers Fumbled Medicaid Fraud Response
By Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, and Hannah Bassett, Arizona Heart for Investigative Reporting. Co-published with Arizona Heart for Investigative Reporting.
Printed Jan. 27.
Arizona officers acknowledged {that a} fraud scheme concentrating on Indigenous individuals with addictions price taxpayers $2.5 billion. However they haven’t accounted publicly for the variety of deaths tied to the scheme.
3. What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Remedy Reveals About Drug Pricing
By Robin Fields
Printed Feb. 12.
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a document value, ushering in a brand new class of wildly costly medication. Its story upends the extensively held conception that prime costs replicate big business investments in innovation.
4. How a International On-line Community of White Supremacists Groomed a Teen to Kill
By A.C. Thompson and James Bandler, ProPublica, and Lukáš Diko, Investigative Heart of Jan Kuciak. Co-published with FRONTLINE.
Printed March 8.
The murders of two individuals outdoors an LGBTQ+ bar at first appeared just like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and FRONTLINE investigation exhibits they had been, the truth is, the end result of a coordinated, worldwide recruiting effort by on-line extremists.
5. Earlier than a Breath: America’s Stillbirth Disaster
By Nadia Sussman, Liz Moughon, Margaret Cheatham Williams and Lisa Riordan Seville
Printed March 20.
Greater than 20,000 stillbirths happen within the U.S. annually, however 1 in 4 could also be preventable. “Earlier than a Breath” sheds gentle on three moms combating to alter these statistics.
6. “A Wholly Inaccurate Image”: Actuality Cop Present “The First 48” and the Wrongly Convicted Man
by Jessica Lussenhop, pictures by Sarahbeth Maney
Printed March 29.
Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a capturing featured on “The First 48.” The Minnesota legal professional basic’s workplace successfully alleged that the present formed the case as an alternative of the case shaping the present.
7. An Algorithm Deemed This Almost Blind 70-12 months-Outdated Prisoner a “Average Danger.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
By Richard A. Webster, Verite Information. Co-published with Verite Information.
Printed April 10.
A Louisiana regulation cedes a lot of the ability of the parole board to an algorithm that bars hundreds of prisoners from a shot at early launch. Civil rights attorneys say it might disproportionately hurt Black individuals — and should even be unconstitutional.
8. How a Chinese language Jail Helped Gas a Lethal Drug Disaster in america
By Sebastian Rotella
Printed April 23.
Whereas China enforces strict legal guidelines in opposition to home drug trafficking, state-supported corporations have brazenly shipped fentanyl to the U.S., investigators say. One prison-owned chemical firm boasted on-line: “100% of our shipments will clear customs.”
9. Nike Says Its Manufacturing facility Employees Earn Almost Double the Minimal Wage. At This Cambodian Manufacturing facility, 1% Made That A lot.
By Rob Davis, pictures by Sarahbeth Maney. Co-published with The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Printed April 25.
Nike has made an expansive effort to persuade customers, buyers and others that it’s enhancing the lives of manufacturing facility employees who make its merchandise, not exploiting them. A uncommon view of wages at one Cambodian manufacturing facility checks this declare.
10. Menace in Your Medication Cupboard: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Medication
By Debbie Cenziper, Megan Rose, Brandon Roberts and Irena Hwang
Printed June 17.
A ProPublica investigation discovered that for greater than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from america a particular cross to maintain sending medication to an unsuspecting public.
11. He Was Accused of Killing His Spouse. Idaho’s Coroner System Let Clues Vanish After a Earlier Spouse’s Loss of life.
By Audrey Dutton
Printed July 16.
Clayton Sturdy had a historical past of home unrest in two marriages. The ladies’s households say a extra thorough investigation of Betty Sturdy’s loss of life in Idaho might need saved the lifetime of his subsequent spouse, Shirley Weatherley, in Texas.
12. He Got here to the U.S. to Assist His Sick Youngster. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared.
By Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica; Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune; Mica Rosenberg and Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica; Ronna Rísquez, Alianza Rebelde Investiga; and Adrián González, Cazadores de Faux Information. Co-published with Alianza Rebelde Investiga, Cazadores de Faux Information and The Texas Tribune.
Printed July 18.
Like many of the greater than 230 Venezuelan males deported to a Salvadoran jail, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had adopted U.S. immigration guidelines. Then Trump rewrote them.
13. The Drying Planet
By Abrahm Lustgarten, graphics by Lucas Waldron, illustrations by Olivier Kugler for ProPublica
Printed July 25.
A brand new research finds that freshwater assets are quickly disappearing, creating arid “mega” areas and inflicting sea ranges to rise.
14. Center College Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a College Capturing. They Have been Charged With a Crime.
By Aliyya Swaby. Co-published with WPLN.
Printed July 28.
Social movies, memes and retweets have gotten fodder for prison expenses in an period of heightened responses to pupil threats. Authorities say harsh punishment is critical, however specialists say the crackdown has unintended penalties.
15. “We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
By Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk
Printed July 31.
We’ve documented almost 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering automobile home windows to make arrests — a tactic specialists say was not often used earlier than Trump took workplace. ICE claims its officers use a “minimal quantity of drive.” You’ll be able to decide for your self.
16. Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Reduce Federal Well being Companies
By Brandon Roberts, Annie Waldman and Pratheek Rebala, illustrations by Sam Inexperienced for ProPublica
Printed Aug. 21.
Greater than 20,500 employees have left or been pushed out of federal well being companies, a ProPublica evaluation discovered. Staffers say the cuts will depart their companies much less outfitted to conduct research, carry out inspections and fight lethal outbreaks.
17. “Materials Assist” and an Ohio Chaplain: How 9/11-Period Terror Guidelines Might Empower Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
By Hannah Allam
Printed Sept. 9.
The U.S. authorities was making an attempt to deport Ohio kids’s hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, alleging tenuous connections to terrorism. If DHS had succeeded, specialists say it might have handed the Trump administration a “sledgehammer” to make use of on mass deportations. A couple of weeks after this investigation was revealed, Soliman was freed.
18. “Simply Let Me Die”
By Duaa Eldeib, pictures by Sarah Blesener for ProPublica
Printed Sept. 10.
After insurance coverage repeatedly denied a pair’s claims, one psychiatrist was their final hope.
19. These Activists Wish to Dismantle Public Faculties. Now They Run the Training Division.
By Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards
Printed Oct. 8.
Below Trump, the Division of Training has been bringing in activists hostile to public faculties. It might imply a brand new period of personal and non secular faculties boosted by tax {dollars} — and the tip of public faculties as we all know them.
20. How Paul Newby Made North Carolina a Blueprint for Conservative Courts
By Doug Bock Clark
Printed Oct. 30.
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Courtroom into an instrument of political energy. Over 20 years, he’s pushed adjustments which have reverberated nicely past the borders of his state.
21. She Begged for Assist. This State’s Probation Hole Could Have Put Her in Hazard.
By Paige Pfleger, WPLN, and Mariam Elba, ProPublica. Co-published with MLK50: Justice By Journalism, Tennessee Lookout and WPLN.
Printed Nov. 11.
Tennessee probation officers pause in-person visits and residential searches for offenders dealing with an arrest warrant. That lowered supervision can final for months. Temptress Peebles was certainly one of six moms who died throughout this hole.
22. What the U.S. Authorities Is Dismissing That Might Seed a Chook Flu Pandemic
By Nat Lash, graphics by Chris Alcantara
Printed Nov. 18.
Egg producers suspect chook flu is touring by means of the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this 12 months, we examined that principle and located that the place the wind blew, the virus adopted. Vaccines might assist, however the USDA hasn’t permitted them.
23. Below Trump, Extra Than 1,000 Nonprofits Strip DEI Language From Tax Types
By Ellis Simani, design by Zisiga Mukulu
Printed Dec. 17.
Because the Trump administration ordered companies to eradicate “unlawful” range, fairness and inclusion efforts, we recognized greater than 1,000 nonprofits that eliminated such language from the mission statements of their tax filings.
24. Contained in the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Starvation Disaster
By Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester, pictures by Brian Otieno for ProPublica
Printed Dec. 17.
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of inner paperwork present authorities officers and assist employees desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending catastrophe and loss of life.
25. Preventing for Breath
By Megan Rose and Debbie Cenziper, pictures by Hannah Yoon for ProPublica
Printed Dec. 19.
Lung transplant affected person Hannah Goetz’s life relied on the generic model of a essential drug. It was presupposed to be equal to the brand-name remedy — however the FDA doesn’t at all times make sure that’s the case.
