Jeremy Kohler

5 days ago | propublica.org | Lexi Churchill |Jeremy Kohler |Andy Kroll |Kayla Guo

This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief Weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues. Two years ago, Texas lawmakers quietly cut millions of dollars in funding for kits intended to help track down missing kids, after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed there was no evidence they had aided law enforcement in finding lost children.

1 week ago | planetforward.org | Jeremy Kohler

“It is not ‘them’ and ‘us.’ It is ‘we.'”These are the words of Dr. Sarah Stroup, director of the Conflict Transformation Collaborative at Middlebury College, spoken as she closed out Day 1 of the 2025 Planet Forward Summit, held April 17 and 18 in Washington, DC. Hearing people’s stories, through deep listening and by extending curiosity, is a key way to connect with others, help find common ground — and find a path to understanding.

2 weeks ago | propublica.org | Tim Golden |Jake Pearson |Andy Kroll |Jeremy Kohler

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 spring of 2019, as a new Mexican government shut down most of its cooperation with the United States in the fight against drug trafficking, a small group of American drug agents decided to confront the problem in a different way.

2 weeks ago | propublica.org | Jake Pearson |Andy Kroll |Jeremy Kohler

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A federal employee who is helping the Trump administration carry out the drastic downsizing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau owns stock in companies that could benefit from the agency’s dismantling, a ProPublica investigation has found.

2 weeks ago | propublica.org | Corey Johnson |Andy Kroll |Jeremy Kohler |Eli Hager

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A group representing firearms owners has asked three federal agencies to investigate how the gun industry’s main lobbying group secretly used the intimate details of weapons buyers for political purposes.