The Trump Administration
Highlights
Trump’s Treasury Pick Excelled at Kicking Elderly People Out of Their Homes
Former Intelligence Official: Trump Conflict With Spy Agencies Creates ‘Dangerous Moment’
How Trump Could Kill a Plan to Get Overtime Pay for Four Million Workers
Commerce Nominee May Have the Biggest Conflicts of Them All
Plus
A Visual Guide to Who Trump is Putting in Power
Documenting Hate
More Stories
Pharma Money Reaches Guideline Writers, Patient Groups, Even Doctors on Twitter
A series of studies published today documents the vast conflicts of interest in medicine. The way we think about disease “is being subtly distorted” by financial ties, the authors of an editorial write.
Former Intelligence Official: Trump Conflict With Spy Agencies Creates ‘Dangerous Moment’
Matthew Olsen, a senior national security official in both Democratic and Republican administrations, says the ongoing conflict between President-elect Trump and the U.S. intelligence community poses grave risks.
How Trump Could Kill a Plan to Get You Overtime Pay
A rule that could get overtime pay for four million workers is in limbo, and Trump will help decide whether it survives.
Do You Make Less Than $47,500 a Year? Help Us Investigate Overtime Pay.
Do you make less than $47,500 a year? Help us investigate overtime pay.
The Breakthrough: Meet the Reporter Who Went Undercover in the Hermit Kingdom
Podcast: Author Suki Kim taught English at a boarding school for North Korea’s young elites. Here’s how she pulled it off.
Puerto Rico Turns to Lewandowski to Lobby Trump on Debt
The island’s new governor, who’s considered sympathetic to hedge funds and insurers that want it to repay its debt rather than go bankrupt, is in talks to hire Trump’s former campaign manager.
Will Trump’s Climate Team Accept Any ‘Social Cost of Carbon’?
The nation’s top science panel has just sketched a clearer way to set a fair price today for cutting tomorrow’s climate risks. Some of Trump’s advisers say the price should be zero.
Federal Agents Arrest a Former Guatemalan Soldier Charged With Massacring Civilians
The Maryland resident has been linked to a 1982 attack on the village of Dos Erres in Guatemala that led to the deaths of about 250 children, women and unarmed men.
Politwoops: Explore the Tweets They Didn’t Want You to See
Politwoops tracks deleted tweets by public officials, including people currently in office and candidates for office.
An Ocean Apart, But United in Concerns About Hate Crimes
The violence in Great Britain after the Brexit vote might hold lessons for America.
The Breakthrough: The $2 Drug Test
We’re relaunching our podcast with a new format and new name, starting with three special episodes. This week: how ProPublica reporters discovered police departments nationwide use a $2 test for detecting drugs that can send innocent people to jail.
Major Projects
Reliving Agent Orange
ProPublica and The Virginian-Pilot are exploring the effects of the chemical mixture Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans and their families, as well as their fight for benefits.
27 Stories in the Series. Latest:
Machine Bias
We’re investigating algorithmic injustice and the formulas that increasingly influence our lives.
24 Stories in the Series. Latest:
Bias in Criminal Risk Scores Is Mathematically Inevitable, Researchers Say
Busted
Texas Panel on Wrongful Convictions Calls for Ending Use of Unverified Drug Field Tests
A commission established by lawmakers to help end the conviction of the innocent says field tests are too unreliable to be trusted without lab confirmation.
Hell and High Water
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the country. It’s home to the nation’s largest refining and petrochemical complex, where billions of gallons of oil and dangerous chemicals are stored. And it’s a sitting duck for the next big hurricane. Why isn’t Texas ready?
9 Stories in the Series. Latest:
Obama Signs Bill That May Boost Texas Hurricane Protection Study
The Breakdown
How politics and government really work, and why they don’t.
Conservatives Plot Their Course on the Rising ‘Sea of Red’ in State Capitals
Meeting in private, enthused activists promise that the growing Republican dominance in state government will unleash a wave of laws to cut business taxes, restrict unions and expand school privatization.
Electionland
Monitoring access to the vote in real time.
ProPublica is covering access to the ballot and problems that prevent people from exercising their right to vote during the 2016 election.
8 Stories in the Series. Latest:
N.C. Governor Loses Re-Election Bid, Attempts to Hold Power by Claiming Voter Fraud
An Unbelievable Story of Rape
An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins.
6 Stories in the Series. Latest:
The Rent Racket
How Landlords Sidestep Tenant Protections in New York City
ProPublica is exploring New York City’s broken rent stabilization system, the tax breaks that underpin it, the regulators who look the other way and the tenants who suffer as a result.
30 Stories in the Series. Latest:
Why Developers of Manhattan Luxury Towers Give Millions to Upstate Candidates
Red Cross
How one of the country’s most venerated charities has failed disaster victims, broken promises and made dubious claims of success.
38 Stories in the Series. Latest:
Red Cross ‘Failed for 12 Days’ After Historic Louisiana Floods