Corey Johnson

Feb 27, 2025 | projects.propublica.org | Corey Johnson |Anna Donlan

How Cambridge Analytica Used Intimate Data to Exploit Gun Owners’ Private Lives Change Appearance For years, some of America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on customers — without their knowledge or consent — to the gun industry’s main lobbying group. Political operatives then employed those details to rally firearms owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for Congress and the White House. The strategy remained a secret for more than two decades.

Feb 13, 2025 | propublica.org | Corey Johnson |Byard Duncan |Jesse Coburn |Dave Altimari

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Four and a half years ago, a newly formed corporate entity purchased a low-income housing complex with 264 apartments in Phoenix. The property had received more than $4 million in federal tax credits and, in exchange, was supposed to remain affordable for decades.

Feb 12, 2025 | propublica.org | Corey Johnson |Byard Duncan |Paige Pfleger |Dave Altimari

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with WPLN/Nashville Public Radio. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Two Republican state lawmakers in Tennessee have filed legislation that aims to protect domestic violence victims by requiring more transparency from people who’ve been ordered by a court to give up their guns.

Feb 6, 2025 | propublica.org | Corey Johnson |Byard Duncan |Alec MacGillis |Brett Murphy

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On Jan. 10, the U.S. Department of Justice released a 123-page report on the 1921 racial massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which claimed several hundred lives and left the thriving Black neighborhood of Greenwood in smoldering ruins.

Feb 6, 2025 | propublica.org | Corey Johnson |Byard Duncan |Sharon Lerner |Pratheek Rebala

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In the face of the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to reshape the Environmental Protection Agency and drive out its workers, more than 300 career employees have left their jobs since the election, according to a ProPublica analysis of personnel data.