Mauricio Rodríguez Pons

Jan 23, 2025 | propublica.org | McKenzie Funk |Kathleen McGrory |Neil Bedi |Mauricio Rodríguez Pons

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. The icebreaker Aiviq was built for oil work in the Arctic but has design issues. Its maiden voyage to Alaska ended in a rescue at sea and a Coast Guard investigation. The Aiviq’s Louisiana builder has made more than $7 million in political contributions since 2012.

Jan 21, 2025 | propublica.org | Mauricio Rodríguez Pons |Aliyya Swaby |Annie Waldman |Zach Read

Skip to main content Close Close Creative Commons Donate Email Add Email Facebook Instagram Mastodon Facebook Messenger Mobile Podcast Print ProPublica Search Secure WhatsApp YouTube Meet the Woman Fighting for the Rights of Voters Who Can’t Read Olivia Coley-Pearson offered help to voters who struggle to read. For taking on one of America’s oldest forms of voter suppression, she got threats, a trip to jail and a reminder of the nation’s long legacy of weaponizing literacy. Republish This...

Jan 21, 2025 | propublica.org | Mauricio Rodríguez Pons |Almudena Toral |Lynzy Billing

Skip to main content Close Close Creative Commons Donate Email Add Email Facebook Instagram Mastodon Facebook Messenger Mobile Podcast Print ProPublica Search Secure WhatsApp YouTube “The Night Doctrine”: The Truth About Afghanistan’s Zero Unit Night Raids In this triple-Emmy-winning short, British journalist Lynzy Billing returns to her native Afghanistan to find out who killed her family 30 years earlier, only to uncover a secretive U.S.-backed program that left hundreds of civilians dead....

Dec 9, 2023 | flipboard.com | Brandi Kellam |Christopher Tyree |Louis Hansen |Lisa Riordan Seville |Mauricio Rodríguez Pons

Opinion & Analysis16 hours agoDonald Trump is not the only threat to democracyThe Washington Post - By Letters to the Editor • 16hDan Balz might be reassured by the failure of the mega rich’s millions to “produce the support of voters” for the likes of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to run for the White House, but I would not see that as proof that the mega rich can’t confiscate power in the United States, as oligarchs did …Middle EastNowA teacher wrote a Palestinian rallying cry in her email.

Nov 3, 2023 | newyorker.com | Mauricio Rodríguez Pons |Almudena Toral |Lynzy Billing

Our chance encounter spurred me to begin investigating the units that had killed her sons. I learnt that the raid on Mahzala’s home, along with hundreds of others like it, had been conducted by élite squads of U.S.-backed Afghan Special Forces units, called the Zero units. I found that a disturbing number of the raids appeared to have relied on faulty intelligence or misidentified targets provided by America’s intelligence-gathering apparatus. This film is presented in partnership with ProPublica.