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Seven Ways Patients Can Protect Themselves From Outrageous Medical Bills
Experts in reducing charges for medical services say patients need to push for detailed answers up front about the true costs of their care.
A Hospital Charged $1,877 to Pierce a 5-Year-Old’s Ears. This Is Why Health Care Costs So Much.
An epidemic of unnecessary treatment is wasting billions of health care dollars a year. Patients and taxpayers are paying for it.
Why We Had to Buy Racist, Sexist, Xenophobic, Ableist, and Otherwise Awful Facebook Ads
We repeated our 2016 test to figure out whether Facebook was adequately policing itself. It wasn’t.
For Some Victims, Reporting a Rape Can Bring Doubt, Abuse — and Even Prosecution
False reporting is a crime, one that some police would like to make a priority. But history shows the police can’t always tell the truth from a lie.
A Very ProPublica Holiday Gift Guide
Looking for some gift ideas? ProPublica’s prolific staff has you covered, with books, movies and even some tunes for those hard-to-shop-for people on your list.
Extreme Digital Vetting of Visitors to the U.S. Moves Forward Under a New Name
ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft, to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity.
I’ve Been Interviewing ProPublica Illinois Reporters. Here’s What I’ve Learned.
As an ‘Emerging Reporter’ fellow, each interview has taught me something new, challenged a preconceived belief or reinforced an idea about journalism.
Chilling New Report Cites Greater Death Toll in Allende Massacre
Researchers cite a ProPublica and National Geographic investigation revealing the DEA’s involvement and call for answers from the United States.
Koch Lobbyists and Opus Dei — Who’s Dropping in on Trump Budget Czar Mick Mulvaney?
The influential OMB director’s door is open to corporate and conservative interests, according to logs that the White House fought to keep secret.
Here Are the White House Visitor Records the Trump Administration Didn’t Want You to See
The Trump White House tried to block public access to visitor logs of five federal offices working directly for the president even though they were subject to public disclosure through the Freedom of Information Act. A Washington-based transparency group successfully sued the administration to release the data and provided the documents to ProPublica.
Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race
After ProPublica revealed last year that Facebook advertisers could target housing ads to whites only, the company announced it had built a system to spot and reject discriminatory ads. We retested and found major omissions.
ProPublica Illinois Q&A: Meet News Applications Developer David Eads
News Applications Developer David Eads considers himself a journalist first, but somebody who does it with coding, data and design.
More Machine Learning About Congress’ Priorities
We keep training machine learning models on Congress. Find out what this one learned about lawmakers’ top issues.
Sudden Shift at a Public Health Journal Leaves Scientists Feeling Censored
Claiming overreach by a new publisher, the journal’s editorial board asks for disciplinary action from the National Library of Medicine.
Some U.S. Hospitals Don’t Put Americans First for Liver Transplants
At a time when there aren’t enough livers for ailing Americans, wealthy foreigners fly here for transplants.
This Is Where Hate Crimes Don’t Get Reported
FBI statistics on hate crimes remain frustratingly inadequate. Here are some of the jurisdictions where low or nonexistent reporting leave us with known unknowns.
The Breakthrough: Used as ‘Guinea Pigs’ by the U.S. Military, Then Discarded
During World War II, the government subjected thousands of troops to mustard gas tests — and kept it a secret. More than 60 years later, an NPR reporter and researcher helped the men get justice.
One Officer, Scores of Tickets and a Familiar Racial Disparity
C.J. Brown wrote four times as many pedestrian tickets as any other officer in Jacksonville over the last five years. Most of them went to blacks. His boss says he’s just “good at his job.”
Journalism Made Possible Because of the Freedom of Information Act
The Freedom of Information Act is fundamental to investigative journalism. Here’s our strange attempt to get you to care about it.
