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ProPublica’s best long-form investigations, narrated. ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account. On this podcast, you can listen to important new investigations alongside our most compelling journalism from the archives. Support our journalism by donating at propublica.org/donate.

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“He Didn’t Need to Die.” How an Immigration Detention Center Repeatedly Failed to Address a Mental Health Crisis.
Geraldo Lunas Campos repeatedly raised concerns about his mental health before he died at Camp East Montana. Records paint a portrait of how the Texas facility’s staff failed to adequately respond.
Friday · 21 min
With a Chance at Freedom, They Faced an Unexpected Obstacle: Their Own Lawyers
Pennsylvania courts allow attorneys to argue against their convicted clients’ bid for justice. It has resulted in people spending years or decades in prison before being freed based on issues lawyers overlooked or rejected.
July 24 · 24 min
Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
July 17 · 44 min
“That Guy is Still Out There”
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of author Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened.
July 10 · 1 hr 2 min
This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.
Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service that’s slower than in most of the U.S.
July 3 · 26 min
He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway.
Math teacher Jason Agan was deemed “unfit to teach.” But the finding was never made public. This is how the state allowed him — and dozens of other educators found to have committed sexual harassment or misconduct — to keep their credentials.
June 26 · 26 min
She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.
Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
June 19 · 37 min
In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations
The Old Apostolic Lutheran Church’s culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the U.S. and Canada, ensnaring parents, children and grandchildren in the same cycle of abuse.
June 12 · 22 min
Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.
The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act like it would go away,” the family says.
June 5 · 10 min
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
May 29 · 20 min
Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges.
Before the 2024 election, federal prosecutors were “full steam ahead” looking into how a prison gang in Puerto Rico gave drugs to inmates if they voted for a GOP gubernatorial candidate. After Trump’s election, the investigation evaporated.
May 22 · 20 min
Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.
In several cities, judges have chastised federal immigration officers, saying they used excessive force. One former Department of Homeland Security leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”
May 15 · 25 min
Meet the Mayor of a Tiny Texas Town Who Wants to Limit How Cities Can Govern
A push to restrict local governments’ ability to decide how they spend their money and which policies they can adopt is having downstream effects in tiny towns and big cities.
May 8 · 21 min
Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash
Across the U.S., critics are pressuring public officials to stop or stall new solar projects, often citing unfounded health concerns.
May 1 · 18 min
3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town?
Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weirder things got.
April 24 · 34 min
Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing.
April 17 · 32 min
Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term.
April 10 · 23 min
Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
April 3 · 30 min
The Drying Planet
A study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
March 27 · 18 min
They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has also constricted the rights of pregnant women.
March 20 · 19 min

ProPublica Narrated

“He Didn’t Need to Die.” How an Immigration Detention Center Repeatedly Failed to Address a Mental Health Crisis.

With a Chance at Freedom, They Faced an Unexpected Obstacle: Their Own Lawyers

Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study

“That Guy is Still Out There”

This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.

He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway.

She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.

In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations

Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges.

Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.

Meet the Mayor of a Tiny Texas Town Who Wants to Limit How Cities Can Govern

Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash

3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town?

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids

The Drying Planet

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.