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107 stories published since 2010

What Happened When Health Officials Wanted to Close a Meatpacking Plant, but the Governor Said No

by Michael Grabell

May 7, 2020, 1:12 pm EDT
Did He Talk About Her? VA Secretary Changes His Story Amid Allegations He Sought Dirt on House Staffer.

by Isaac Arnsdorf

April 27, 2020, 2:25 pm EDT
It’s Hardly Shocking the Navy Fired a Commander for Warning of Coronavirus Threat. It’s Part of a Pattern.

by T. Christian Miller and Megan Rose

April 4, 2020, 3:43 pm EDT
VA Secretary Looked for Dirt on a House Staffer Who Reported Sexual Assault in a VA Hospital, Complaint Says

by Isaac Arnsdorf

February 7, 2020, 2:47 pm EST
17 Sailors and Six Marines Died in Avoidable Accidents. Congress Questions Whether the Problems Have Been Fixed.

by Robert Faturechi

February 5, 2020, 7:03 pm EST
Trump Says U.S. Is Ready for War. Not All His Troops Are So Sure.

by T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose, and Robert Faturechi

January 17, 2020, 5:00 am EST
Faulty Equipment, Lapsed Training, Repeated Warnings: How a Preventable Disaster Killed Six Marines

by Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose and T. Christian Miller

December 30, 2019, 5:00 am EST
Adrift: How the Marine Corps Failed Squadron 242

by Katie Campbell, Joseph Singer, Lucas Waldron, ProPublica, and Matt Huynh and MacGregor Campbell, special to ProPublica

December 30, 2019, 5:00 am EST
The Men Who Lost Their Lives When Their Tanker Went Down in a Doomed Military Training Flight

by Nate Schweber for ProPublica

December 30, 2019, 4:59 am EST
The Navy Installed Touch-Screen Steering Systems to Save Money. 10 Sailors Paid With Their Lives.

by T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose, Robert Faturechi and Agnes Chang

December 20, 2019, 10:00 am EST
How We Reconstructed the Flawed Navigation Controls Behind the Navy’s Worst Maritime Accident in 40 Years

by Agnes Chang and Al Shaw

December 20, 2019, 10:00 am EST
For-Profit Colleges Tap a Fox News Host to Influence Trump

by Isaac Arnsdorf

November 20, 2019, 10:50 am EST
Blame Over Justice: The Human Toll of the Navy’s Relentless Push to Punish One of Its Own

by Megan Rose

November 20, 2019, 5:00 am EST
How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon

by James Bandler, Anjali Tsui and Doris Burke

August 22, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Trump Keeps Talking About the Last Military Standoff With Iran — Here’s What Really Happened

by Megan Rose, Robert Faturechi, and T. Christian Miller

June 24, 2019, 2:15 pm EDT
Sailors Report Enduring Concerns About Navy Readiness and Leadership

by Kengo Tsutsumi

April 29, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
The Salty Curmudgeon and the BIC

by Megan Rose

April 25, 2019, 12:58 pm EDT
How the Navy’s Top Commander Botched the Highest-Profile Investigation in Years

by T. Christian Miller and Robert Faturechi

April 11, 2019, 12:06 pm EDT
An Admiral Told a Senator Most Navy Reforms Were “Complete.” Navy’s No. 2 Says Otherwise.

by Robert Faturechi and T. Christian Miller

February 28, 2019, 4:25 pm EST
Navy Leaders Taken to Task by Lawmakers, Including One Who Was Grilling a Former Boss

by T. Christian Miller and Robert Faturechi

February 26, 2019, 6:56 pm EST
Help Us Find Out Whether Navy Reforms Are Actually Making a Difference

by Kengo Tsutsumi, Robert Faturechi, and T. Christian Miller

February 26, 2019, 12:31 pm EST
Navy Promised Changes After Deadly Accidents, but Many Within Doubt It’s Delivering on Them

by Robert Faturechi and T. Christian Miller

February 26, 2019, 4:00 am EST
Investigation of Disasters Sparks Debate Over Navy’s Readiness and Responsibilities

by T. Christian Miller, Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose and Kengo Tsutsumi

February 15, 2019, 4:50 pm EST
Senate Committee Grills Navy Official Over 2017 Collisions, Seeking Data to Prove Conditions Have Changed

by Robert Faturechi and T. Christian Miller

February 12, 2019, 5:13 pm EST
In Navy Disasters, Neglect, Mistakes, and 17 Lost Sailors

by Nate Schweber and T. Christian Miller

February 8, 2019, 7:00 pm EST
How We Investigated the Navy’s Twin Disasters in the Pacific

by T. Christian Miller, Robert Faturechi and Megan Rose

February 7, 2019, 11:56 am EST
Years of Warnings, Then Death and Disaster

by Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose and T. Christian Miller

February 7, 2019, 11:56 am EST
Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by its Own Navy

by T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi

February 6, 2019, 5:00 am EST
Can the U.S. Military Build a Border Wall Even as It Struggles to Rebuild Itself?

by Joe Sexton

January 8, 2019, 5:00 pm EST
Marines Move to Tackle Racial Extremists in the Corps

by Rahima Nasa

August 30, 2018, 2:00 pm EDT
Defense Inspector General to Investigate Military’s Toxic Open Burning

by Abrahm Lustgarten

August 14, 2018, 1:20 pm EDT
Canadian Research Adds to Worry Over an Environmental Threat the Pentagon Has Downplayed for Decades

by Abrahm Lustgarten

January 9, 2018, 2:40 pm EST
Long Story Short

by Abrahm Lustgarten

December 30, 2017, 5:00 am EST
The Bomb That Went Off Twice

by Abrahm Lustgarten

December 18, 2017, 7:30 am EST
The Breakthrough: Used as ‘Guinea Pigs’ by the U.S. Military, Then Discarded

by Jessica Huseman

November 17, 2017, 8:00 am EST
Will Texas Massacre Finally Get Military to Improve its Criminal Reporting System?

by A.C. Thompson and T. Christian Miller

November 6, 2017, 7:07 pm EST
How Military Outsourcing Turned Toxic

by Abrahm Lustgarten

September 26, 2017, 8:00 am EDT
Dangerous Pollutants in Military’s Open Burns Greater Than Thought, Tests Indicate

by Abrahm Lustgarten

August 2, 2017, 1:12 am EDT
McCain’s Brain Cancer Draws Renewed Attention to Possible Agent Orange Connection

by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle

July 27, 2017, 8:00 am EDT
Kaboom Town

by Abrahm Lustgarten

July 21, 2017, 8:00 am EDT
In Colfax, Echoes of Another Conflict

by Ashley Gilbertson/VII Photo

July 21, 2017, 7:59 am EDT
Open Burns, Ill Winds

by Abrahm Lustgarten

July 20, 2017, 8:00 am EDT
Toxic Fires

by Hilary Fung

July 20, 2017, 7:59 am EDT
Veterans Affairs Official Downplays Agent Orange Risks, Questions Critics

by Charles Ornstein

June 12, 2017, 8:00 am EDT
Our Military Waste Game Suddenly Seems Prophetic

by Megan Rose

March 30, 2017, 1:25 pm EDT
Agent Orange Curse Hangs Over Families of Virginia Veterans

ProPublica

December 16, 2016, 3:38 pm EST
The Children of Agent Orange

Charles Ornstein and Hannah Fresques

December 16, 2016, 8:00 am EST
Vietnam Veterans And Their Families Share Stories of Exposure, Illness And Frustration

Terry Parris Jr.

December 16, 2016, 7:59 am EST
A Public Official’s Private Pain

Charles Ornstein

December 16, 2016, 7:59 am EST
How We Obtained the Government’s Data on Agent Orange and Birth Defects

Stephen Engelberg

December 16, 2016, 7:58 am EST