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The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation announced Tuesday that ProPublica’s series on how the meatpacking industry ignored pandemic warnings won its General Circulation Journalism Award. The series, by reporters Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung, found that meat companies’ …
ProPublica Wins NIHCM Award in Journalism and Research More >
On a March afternoon on the Los Angeles River, two anglers waded in the concrete channel of the Glendale Narrows, casting their lines for carp and largemouth bass. Above them, a belted kingfisher perched on a mattress that had been caught in …
At today’s meeting of the annual J Street conference, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., suggested that the U.S. consider conditional aid to Israel. “I support military assistance to Israel,” said Warren’s planned remarks, referring to the aid as “the elephant in …
Elizabeth Warren Suggests U.S. Explore Conditional Aid to Israel More >
The pandemic has been good for Amazon. In the first ten months of 2020, the company hired 425,000 new employees (more than doubling its US workforce) and added another 500,000 independently contracted drivers. Net sales last year (almost $400 billion) …
Amazon Doesn’t Know How to Innovate. It Knows How to Exploit More >
Embed from Getty Images In his March 1956 sermon “When Peace Becomes Obnoxious,” Martin Luther King, Jr. responded to a headline in a local Alabama newspaper that read, “Things are quiet in Tuscaloosa today. There is peace on the campus …
Amid Chauvin trial and more police killings, calls for ‘peaceful’ protests sound obnoxious More >
The Wikimedia Foundation today started a fundraising campaign on Wikipedia in several Latin American countries, starting in Brazil and continuing in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Until the end of May, banners will be appearing on Wikipedia in …
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman. A New York court has vindicated a former Buffalo police officer who was fired for stopping a fellow …
Newly appointed Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland has pledged to address the concerns of U.S. communities that have disproportionately suffered from pollution and environmental degradation. In her role as the primary steward of America’s public lands, Haaland promised last …
Deb Haaland is making room for marginalized communities in the Interior Department More >
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The federal government has quietly reversed course on a policy that had kept thousands of businesses from applying …
The Federal Government Will Now Give PPP Loans to Borrowers in Bankruptcy More >
Journalist Michelle Nijhuis crystallizes the human urgency around conservation in her new book, Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction. Despite its title, the book is anchored in the narratives of the people, not just the other …
Há algumas semanas, o YouTube publicou um texto sobre seus esforços mundiais pela educação sobre as vacinas de covid-19. Assinada pelo diretor de parcerias em saúde da plataforma do Google, Garth Graham, a nota diz que está comprometida a “ajudar …
Como a extrema direita burla punições do YouTube – e o Google finge que não vê More >
This year’s race for New York City mayor is off to a disappointing start as Andrew Yang hoovers up media attention while the Left lacks any unifying favorite in the race. But NYC socialists are honing their electoral skills and …
We’ll Have a Socialist New York City Mayor — But Not This Year More >
For Australia’s conservative government, keeping Myanmar open for businesses is more important than justice for massacred anti-coup protesters. Protesters run from security forces during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon’s Thaketa township on March 19, 2021. (STR/AFP via …
Australia’s Government Is Refusing to Support Myanmar’s Anti-Coup Movement More >
As the Canadian oil pipeline company Enbridge awaited its final permits last summer to begin construction on the Line 3 tar sands oil transport project, Minnesota sheriff’s offices along the route fretted. With an Anishinaabe-led movement pledging to carry out …
Local Cops Said Pipeline Company Had Influence Over Government Appointment More >
This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified, or GM, mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Oxitec says its technology will combat dengue fever, a potentially life-threatening disease, …
First GMO mosquitoes to be released in the Florida Keys More >
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story was co-published with Mountain State Spotlight, a new nonprofit newsroom covering West Virginia. In September 2020, …
Natural Gas Is Getting Cheaper. Thousands Are Paying More To Heat Their Homes Anyway. More >
Foto: Maarten Wouters via Getty Images “O trajeto de segurança foi traçado por nós com a Polícia Militar. Nós não passaríamos pela Visconde de Guarapuava por já ocorrerem [sic] incidentes nesse mesmo lugar. Mas, conforme a gente seguiu, chegamos perto …
A bill passed by the state legislature, but yet to be enacted, would offer access to counsel for low-income renters. This week, on the last day of Maryland’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill that would provide access to counsel …
Maryland Could Be the First State to Provide Lawyers for Tenants Facing Eviction More >
As US capitalism boomed, attorneys from a handful of New York law firms became powerful viziers of America’s elite. Illustration by Daniel Zender Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe. Originally published by Jacobin: Source
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show looking at U.S.-Russian relations. The United States has imposed sweeping …
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman. Closing arguments in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin are set …
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: A warning to our viewers: The following story contains graphic descriptions and footage of police violence. Protesters took to the streets of Chicago Thursday night …
As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the country last year, then-candidate Joe Biden pushed one message again and again: “Build Back Better.” The phrase now lends its name to the White House’s massive, multi-pronged proposal to help the country recover from …
Goodbye, old freeways? How subtraction could address climate change More >
White roofs are one of those climate solutions that sound too good to be true. Compared to solar panels and electric cars, painting the roof of a building white is a suspiciously cheap, analog way to usher in a low-carbon …
Scientists look for the Holy Grail: The whitest paint ever More >
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article was produced in partnership with Spotlight PA and The Philadelphia Inquirer, which is a member of …
On March 22, a young man pulled into the parking lot of a King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado, got out of his car and shot an elderly man several times before walking into the store and shooting people indiscriminately with a …
Fast-growing Western communities face a paradox of increased visitors. Hartman Rocks is a popular mountain bike area just a few miles southwest of Gunnison, Colorado. This story was originally published by KUNC and is republished here by permission. Visitors …
The Education Writers Association announced this week that the “Invisible Walls” series, by the Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica, won first place in its National Awards for Education Reporting in the Investigative Reporting (Smaller Newsroom) category. EWA also named a series …
ProPublica Reporting Projects Recognized by Education Writers Association More >
Back in 2004, when wildfires in Alaska burned an area the size of Massachusetts, Michelle Mack wondered just how much carbon had permanently moved from the landscape into the atmosphere. Mack, an ecologist at Northern Arizona University, knew that the …
Rising from the ashes, Alaska’s forests come back stronger More >
A new proposal would make Denver the latest major city to provide legal defense for residents facing evictions. For months, two Denver City Council members—Amanda Sawyer and Candi CdeBaca—have been working on a plan to stem the coming glut of …
Denver City Council Members Propose a Way to Keep Tenants in Their Homes More >
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