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A Closer Look

Loan Forgiveness for Disabled Borrowers Was 10 Years in the Making

At ProPublica, we measure our success by the tangible impact our stories have. Sometimes it takes more than a decade to see a flawed policy change.

A Closer Look

Local Accountability Journalism Still Has a Huge Impact

Between the Local Reporting Network and ProPublica Illinois, our work shows that state leaders across the country are listening and things can change.

Local Reporting Network

122 stories published since 2013

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn’t A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.

How Investigative Journalists Actually Find Fraud, Waste and Abuse

The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy

How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations

Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future

The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers

Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?

Changing Laws and Changing Lives: Why ProPublica Is Dedicated to Local Investigations

An Open Letter to Elon Musk

Finding Focus: How a Visual Storyteller Gets the Right Image — and the Right Tone

What to Expect From ProPublica in a Second Trump Administration

How ProPublica Has Covered Abortion Bans, Immigration and More Issues at Stake in the 2024 Election

The Small Midwestern Cities That Could Play a Pivotal Role in This Year’s Elections

Georgia’s Top GOP Lawmaker Seeks Tougher Action Against Students Who Make Threats. But It May Not Make Schools Safer.

Our Editor Won a 6-Year Legal Battle. It Didn’t Feel Like a Victory.

What Donald Trump’s Criminal Trial Reveals About a Potential Second Trump Administration

Why ProPublica Focuses on Issues You May Not See on Cable News

El presidente mexicano López Obrador atacó nuestro artículo como “una calumnia” y a nuestro reportero como “un peón.” Aquí presentamos algunos hechos.

Mexican President López Obrador Called Our Story “Slander” and Our Reporter a “Pawn.” Here Are Some Facts.

How Social Media Apps Could Be Fueling Homicides Among Young Americans

Behind the Scenes of Justice Alito’s Unprecedented Wall Street Journal Pre-buttal

Cómo alcanzamos a lectores en las granjas lecheras con un artículo sobre ellos

How We Reached Workers While Reporting on Dairy Farm Conditions

The Origins of Our Investigation Into Clarence Thomas’ Relationship With Harlan Crow

Regulatory Failure 101: What the Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank Reveals

Impact Matters Most at ProPublica. Here’s How Our Recent Journalism Has Led to Change.

How ProPublica’s Local Stories Reach the Communities We Report On

What’s Really at Stake in a Politically Charged Supreme Court Case on Elections

What Will UnitedHealth’s New Trove of Claims Data Mean for Consumers?

How Effective Is the Government’s Campaign Against Hospital Mergers?

Tim Ryan: The Working-Class-Jobs Candidate in the Era of Resentment

For Donald Trump, Information Has Always Been Power

How We Fight Back When Officials Resist Releasing Information You Have a Right to Know

Why the Black Educator Forced Out Over Bogus Critical Race Theory Claims Agreed to Share Her Story

Will the Jan. 6 Hearings Change Anyone’s Mind?

Daniel Taylor Was Innocent. He Spent Decades in Prison Trying to Fix the State’s Mistake.

New Documents Show How Drug Companies Targeted Doctors to Increase Opioid Prescriptions

“If You’re Getting a W-2, You’re a Sucker”

How Reporters Reconstructed a Deadly Evacuation From Kabul

Welfare Is No Substitute for a Child Tax Credit

A Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween 2019. The NYPD Is Quashing a Move to Punish the Officer.

One Major Reason the U.S. Hasn’t Stopped Syphilis From Killing Babies

The Billionaires Tax Isn’t New

Recent White House Study on Taxes Shows the Wealthy Pay a Lower Rate Than Everybody Else

The Inside Story of How We Reported the Secret IRS Files

Revisiting “The Year of the Spy”

The Investigative Reporting Behind America’s Obsession With Britney Spears’ Conservatorship

How NYPD’s Vice Unit Got Prostitution Policing All Wrong

How the Federal Reserve Is Increasing Wealth Inequality

What We’re Watching

During Donald Trump’s second presidency, ProPublica will focus on the areas most in need of scrutiny. Here are some of the issues our reporters will be watching — and how to get in touch with them securely.

Learn more about our reporting team. We will continue to share our areas of interest as the news develops.

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Sharon Lerner

I cover health and the environment and the agencies that govern them, including the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Andy Kroll

I cover justice and the rule of law, including the Justice Department, U.S. attorneys and the courts.

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Melissa Sanchez

I report on immigration and labor, and I am based in Chicago.

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Jesse Coburn

I cover housing and transportation, including the companies working in those fields and the regulators overseeing them.

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