A Closer Look

Examining the News

Impact of Our Reporting

Loan Forgiveness for Disabled Borrowers Was 10 Years in the Making

by Stephen Engelberg

September 8, 2021, 9:00 am EDT

Local Accountability Journalism Still Has a Huge Impact

by Charles Ornstein

January 30, 2020, 5:00 am EST

124 stories published since 2013

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

by Alec MacGillis

April 18, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn’t A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.

by Jesse Eisinger

April 8, 2025, 11:15 am EDT
How Investigative Journalists Actually Find Fraud, Waste and Abuse

by Stephen Engelberg

March 31, 2025, 11:00 am EDT
The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy

by Stephen Engelberg

March 20, 2025, 7:00 am EDT
How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations

by Charles Ornstein

March 13, 2025, 8:00 am EDT
Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future

by Alec MacGillis

March 13, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers

by Stephen Engelberg

February 24, 2025, 5:00 am EST
Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?

by Alec MacGillis

February 6, 2025, 6:00 am EST
Changing Laws and Changing Lives: Why ProPublica Is Dedicated to Local Investigations

by Charles Ornstein

December 18, 2024, 7:00 am EST
An Open Letter to Elon Musk

by Stephen Engelberg

December 11, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Finding Focus: How a Visual Storyteller Gets the Right Image — and the Right Tone

by Sarahbeth Maney

November 19, 2024, 6:00 am EST
What to Expect From ProPublica in a Second Trump Administration

by Stephen Engelberg

November 6, 2024, 4:00 pm EST
How ProPublica Has Covered Abortion Bans, Immigration and More Issues at Stake in the 2024 Election

by Stephen Engelberg

November 5, 2024, 5:00 am EST
The Small Midwestern Cities That Could Play a Pivotal Role in This Year’s Elections

by Alec MacGillis

October 26, 2024, 7:00 am EDT
Georgia’s Top GOP Lawmaker Seeks Tougher Action Against Students Who Make Threats. But It May Not Make Schools Safer.

by Aliyya Swaby

September 14, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
Our Editor Won a 6-Year Legal Battle. It Didn’t Feel Like a Victory.

by Charles Ornstein

August 30, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
What Donald Trump’s Criminal Trial Reveals About a Potential Second Trump Administration

by Andrea Bernstein

June 5, 2024, 6:00 am EDT
Why ProPublica Focuses on Issues You May Not See on Cable News

by Stephen Engelberg

February 13, 2024, 5:00 am EST
El presidente mexicano López Obrador atacó nuestro artículo como “una calumnia” y a nuestro reportero como “un peón.” Aquí presentamos algunos hechos.

por Stephen Engelberg

February 9, 2024, 5:05 am EST
Mexican President López Obrador Called Our Story “Slander” and Our Reporter a “Pawn.” Here Are Some Facts.

by Stephen Engelberg

February 9, 2024, 5:00 am EST
How Social Media Apps Could Be Fueling Homicides Among Young Americans

by Alec MacGillis

August 8, 2023, 7:00 am EDT
Behind the Scenes of Justice Alito’s Unprecedented Wall Street Journal Pre-buttal

by Jesse Eisinger and Stephen Engelberg

June 25, 2023, 5:00 am EDT
Cómo alcanzamos a lectores en las granjas lecheras con un artículo sobre ellos

por Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, Fotografía por Caleb Alvarado

May 26, 2023, 5:05 am EDT
How We Reached Workers While Reporting on Dairy Farm Conditions

by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, Photography by Caleb Alvarado

May 26, 2023, 5:00 am EDT
The Origins of Our Investigation Into Clarence Thomas’ Relationship With Harlan Crow

by Stephen Engelberg and Jesse Eisinger

May 11, 2023, 11:00 am EDT
Regulatory Failure 101: What the Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank Reveals

by Jesse Eisinger

March 17, 2023, 7:00 am EDT
Impact Matters Most at ProPublica. Here’s How Our Recent Journalism Has Led to Change.

by Charles Ornstein

March 14, 2023, 6:00 am EDT
How ProPublica’s Local Stories Reach the Communities We Report On

by Charles Ornstein

February 15, 2023, 5:00 am EST
What’s Really at Stake in a Politically Charged Supreme Court Case on Elections

by Ian MacDougall

November 30, 2022, 5:00 am EST
What Will UnitedHealth’s New Trove of Claims Data Mean for Consumers?

Cezary Podkul

November 16, 2022, 11:00 am EST
How Effective Is the Government’s Campaign Against Hospital Mergers?

by Allan Sloan and Carson Kessler

October 28, 2022, 5:00 am EDT
Tim Ryan: The Working-Class-Jobs Candidate in the Era of Resentment

by Alec MacGillis

October 21, 2022, 5:00 am EDT
For Donald Trump, Information Has Always Been Power

by Andrea Bernstein

September 14, 2022, 5:30 am EDT
How We Fight Back When Officials Resist Releasing Information You Have a Right to Know

by Charles Ornstein

June 30, 2022, 8:00 am EDT
Why the Black Educator Forced Out Over Bogus Critical Race Theory Claims Agreed to Share Her Story

by Nicole Carr

June 18, 2022, 9:00 am EDT
Will the Jan. 6 Hearings Change Anyone’s Mind?

by Stephen Engelberg

June 15, 2022, 8:00 am EDT
Daniel Taylor Was Innocent. He Spent Decades in Prison Trying to Fix the State’s Mistake.

by Steve Mills

May 25, 2022, 5:00 am EDT
New Documents Show How Drug Companies Targeted Doctors to Increase Opioid Prescriptions

by Charles Ornstein

May 17, 2022, 9:00 am EDT
“If You’re Getting a W-2, You’re a Sucker”

by Paul Kiel

April 15, 2022, 5:00 am EDT
How Reporters Reconstructed a Deadly Evacuation From Kabul

by Stephen Engelberg

April 12, 2022, 4:30 pm EDT
Welfare Is No Substitute for a Child Tax Credit

by Eli Hager

February 14, 2022, 5:00 am EST
A Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween 2019. The NYPD Is Quashing a Move to Punish the Officer.

by Eric Umansky

February 1, 2022, 5:00 am EST
One Major Reason the U.S. Hasn’t Stopped Syphilis From Killing Babies

by Caroline Chen

November 16, 2021, 5:00 am EST
The Billionaires Tax Isn’t New

by Jesse Eisinger

October 29, 2021, 5:01 am EDT
Recent White House Study on Taxes Shows the Wealthy Pay a Lower Rate Than Everybody Else

by Stephen Engelberg

October 6, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
The Inside Story of How We Reported the Secret IRS Files

by ProPublica

August 6, 2021, 11:30 am EDT
Revisiting “The Year of the Spy”

by Stephen Engelberg

July 28, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
The Investigative Reporting Behind America’s Obsession With Britney Spears’ Conservatorship

by Robin Fields

July 13, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
How NYPD’s Vice Unit Got Prostitution Policing All Wrong

by Stephen Engelberg

May 3, 2021, 5:00 am EDT