A Natural Gas Project Off Alaska’s Coast May Be a Russian Ploy for Intel on the Arctic

Contractors for Polar Train LNG have been surveying the frigid Beaufort Sea for a natural gas project along Alaska’s North ...

The Garbage Man: Bill Gates Has Earned Billions Investing in Climate-Polluting Landfills

Bill Gates owns a dominant stake in Republic Services, America’s second-largest landfill operator, but he’s failed to make ...

Watch: Where Do Our Generic Drugs Come From? We Dug to Find Out.

ProPublica spent 14 months investigating how the Food and Drug Administration regulates foreign drugmakers. We found a system ...

Texas’ School Voucher Program Could Be “Unrecognizable, If Not Extinct,” Says Democratic Lawmaker

Democrats won back the Texas House for the first time in 24 years. Gov. Greg Abbott’s bullishness on vouchers turned off some ...

Trump Official Who Wants Data Centers on Public Lands Has Tens of Millions Invested in AI Industry

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is heavily invested in the AI industry, is leading the charge to allow tech companies to ...

On the Ground in the Final Days Before Trump’s Midterm Debacle

From rallies in Ohio to a Pennsylvania voting site on Election Day, the tone had noticeably changed among voters in some of the regions that were crucial to electing Donald Trump.

Missouri Voters Just Made It Much Harder for Lawmakers to Overturn Citizen-Led Initiatives

For years, Missouri Republicans worked to undo or restrict voter-approved laws and amendments. In passing Amendment 6, voters ...

Vermont Has Spent Nearly a Billion Dollars to Clean Up Lake Champlain. But the Green Slime Keeps Coming Back.

Vermont kicked off an ambitious effort in 2015 to clean up waterways and meet tougher EPA restrictions. But after a decade ...

SafeSport Will Now Alert Schools, Clubs if Coaches Sanctioned for Abuse Continue to Work With Kids

The U.S. Center for SafeSport is taking new steps to protect children from athletic coaches banned over abuse allegations.

How We’re Covering the Midterms — and the Aftermath

Over the past year, we’ve tried to use the techniques of accountability journalism to add new facts to this pivotal moment in ...

Voting Experts Feared “Chaos” on Election Day. So Far, It Hasn’t Materialized.

The Trump administration has initiated a string of unprecedented actions to assert more federal control over elections. While ...

Tribal Leaders Warned Border Wall Construction Would Disturb Native American Remains. They Were Right.

Contractors erecting a second border wall along the southern boundary of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona have ...