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Can Police Prevent the Next Charlottesville?
“We saw it coming,” said a Virginia officer, but they couldn’t stop it. Still, law enforcement experts say measures can be taken — even when protesters are armed.
Track News Stories About Hate With the Documenting Hate News Index
We’re launching a new interactive project, the Documenting Hate News Index, that shows just how ubiquitous hate incidents really are.
Documenting Hate News Index
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Here Are the Hate Incidents Against Mosques and Islamic Centers Since 2013
Data from a civil rights group shows that reports of hate incidents involving American mosques jumped sharply in 2015 and has remained at the same rate since — about once every three days.
Many Nurses Lack Knowledge of Health Risks for New Mothers, Study Finds
A nationwide survey shows that postpartum nurses often fail to warn mothers about potentially life-threatening complications, mainly because they need more education themselves.
A Stealth History Lesson in Baltimore
The city’s removal of Confederate statues in the dead of night was Baltimore’s latest attempt to make peace with the ghosts of the Civil War.
Service Provider Boots Hate Site Off the Internet
The web services company Cloudflare appears to have ended its relationship with the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.
Se lesionaron en el trabajo. Y entonces fueron deportados.
Cómo las compañías de seguros usan las leyes de Florida para hacer que inmigrantes indocumentados sean arrestados y deportados cuando se lesionan en el trabajo — y lo que significa en la América de Trump.
They Got Hurt at Work. Then They Got Deported.
How insurance companies use a Florida law to get undocumented immigrants arrested and deported when they get injured on the job — and what it means in Trump’s America.
The Joe Arpaio I Knew
The former Maricopa County sheriff made his name in part by targeting immigrants — even after a judge ordered him to stop. As President Trump considers a pardon, it’s worth remembering precisely what Arpaio did in his decades in law enforcement.
Trump Has Broad Power to Block Climate Change Report
Influential advisers press the Trump administration to subject a draft climate change report to a “red team” review that many scientists decry as misplaced.
Misdemeanor Defendants Facing Jail Time Not Told They Have a Right to Counsel, Bar Association Finds
American Bar Association monitors report misdemeanor defendants in Nashville often aren’t told they are entitled to a lawyer even when their charges mean they could end up behind bars.
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A New Generation of White Supremacists Emerges in Charlottesville
A group that included many people who were college-educated or ex-military displayed effective planning. “White people are pretty good at getting organized,” said one.
Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville
State police and National Guardsmen watched passively for hours as self-proclaimed Nazis engaged in street battles with counter-protesters. ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson was on the scene and reports that the authorities turned the streets of the city over to groups of militiamen armed with assau
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Many Nurses Lack Knowledge of Health Risks for New Mothers, Study Finds
A nationwide survey shows that postpartum nurses often fail to warn mothers about potentially life-threatening complications, mainly because they need more education themselves.
Wasted Medicine
Tracking your squandered health care dollars
Hospitals are throwing away perfectly good supplies. Nursing homes are flushing unused and unexpired medicine down the toilet. Billions of dollars are routinely wasted every day by health care providers in the United States — and it’s driving up the cost of care for all of us.
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Track News Stories About Hate With the Documenting Hate News Index
We’re launching a new interactive project, the Documenting Hate News Index, that shows just how ubiquitous hate incidents really are.
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.
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Nuisance Abatement
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Se lesionaron en el trabajo. Y entonces fueron deportados.
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Machine Bias
Algorithmic injustice and the formulas that increasingly influence our lives.
Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate
Most tech companies have policies against working with hate websites. Yet a ProPublica survey found that PayPal, Stripe, Newsmax and others help keep more than half of the most-visited extremist sites in business.
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.
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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?
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Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them?
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How politics and government really work, and why they don’t.
Our series seeks to show how politics and government really work, and why they don’t.
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