Pollution, poverty and pandemic collide
In a segregated community outside of an Alabama oil refinery, chronic illness tells a story of racial inequality, poverty and disease as U.S. deaths from COVID-19 surpass 300,000.
Special Projects
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The Accountability Project, a new resource for public data
Seeing a need to streamline public data sets, we built The Accountability Project to put much of that data in one place so journalists, researchers and others could search across otherwise siloed data.
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Site showcases powerful stories and the reporters behind them
Investigating Power is a history of breakthrough investigations that revealed news and changed the national narrative on many major topics since the 1950s, from war to health to civil rights.
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How Trump is shaping immigration policy
An interactive timeline examines President Trump’s use of executive orders to restrict access to the U.S.
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The Opioid Epidemic
In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling prescription narcotics onto the nation’s streets. A Washington Post investigation.
The Accountability Project
Site showcases powerful stories
Immigration Under Trump
Opiod Epidemic
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