GOP Goes to War with League of Women Voters
By Megan O-Matz ProPublica For decades, the League of Women Voters played a vital but largely practical role in American politics: tending to the information...
Billionaire Gives Fortune for Right-Wing Court Takeover
By Andrew Perez, The Lever, and Andy Kroll and Justin Elliott, ProPublica An elderly, ultra-secretive Chicago businessman has given the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in...
Now We Know: Why Sinema Held Up Tax Bill
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Pro Publica: The Killing of the Colorado River
By Abrahm Lustgarten Pro Publica On a 110-degree day several years ago, surrounded by piles of sand and rock in the desert outside of Las...
How Trump’s Tax Cut Fattened the Wallets of the Ultrawealthy
By Justin Elliott and Robert Faturechi Pro Publica In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul...
Dateline Florida: Masking the Gunshine State’s Problems
By J.C. Bruce I have been assigned by Tropic Press to write this new periodic dispatch from the Gunshine State, an effort to provide a...
Feds Exclude Thousands of Viable Businesses from Pandemic Relief
The Small Business Administration refuses to give pandemic relief loans to people who have filed for bankruptcy, even if their businesses can survive. By Lydia...
America’s Drinking Water Is Surprisingly Easy to Poison
The cyberbreach at a plant in Oldsmar, Florida, which could have resulted in a mass poisoning, was a reminder of a disturbing reality: Despite a...
Why We Can’t Make Vaccine Doses Any Faster
President Biden has promised enough doses for all American adults by this summer. There’s not much even the Defense Production Act can do to deliver...