Environmental groups warn using the Defense Production Act to revive the system sets a “radically dangerous precedent.”

“The security of our election infrastructure depends on leadership that is trusted," a voting rights advocate said.

The post This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines. appeared first on ProPublica.

When Charles Thomson and William Barton designed the Great Seal of the United States more than 200 years ago, they were unambiguous about its meaning. A bald eagle would clutch arrows in one set of ta...

“Debanking” is the government's newest weapon of repression against environmental leaders and anti-mining advocates.

The yearslong battle over TikTok’s ownership has concluded in a $10 billion windfall for the Trump administration. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that investors in the recently completed...

The military-industrial complex rakes in profits as the rest of the world suffers, economist C. P. Chandrasekhar argues.

The bill protects agrochemicals producers from lawsuits, and overturns food and pesticide safety laws and statutes.

In Minneapolis, a new generation of activists is challenging Donald Trump, reviving labor militancy, and scoring victories. Next stop: May Day 2026. Working-class resistance in Minneapolis was integra...

Our male protagonists – or perhaps men more broadly – are searching for meaning, solace, or glory anywhere but in the workplace. The trend represents a collective ambiguity about the point of work. Th...

“Tell me that is a gorgeous country.” Dave Rogers, an Oregon farmer, points across an expanse of green ryegrass fields. “My goodness, look at that.”  We’re walking along a stretch of land that is unde...

We’re living in the imperial end times, argues Hasan Piker. With Trump entering a quagmire in Iran after having cast off America’s allies, a new era of belligerence, cruelty, and MAGA fascism looms ov...

Families preparing for Eid al-Fitr and farmers ready for harvest are being squeezed in a country that gets nearly all its oil through the Persian Gulf.

As US power declines, it is destroying the norms and institutions that once organized its international projection of authority. While the US is losing its leadership role, no single power is replacin...

The post They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. appeared first on ProPublica.

Europe’s far-right parties have long boasted about putting their own countries’ interests first but now slavishly support the latest US-Israeli war. While they opt for vassalage, antiwar forces have t...

In 1989, Chuck Stuart called 911 on his car phone to report a shooting.  He said he and his wife were leaving a birthing class at a Boston hospital when a man forced him to drive into the mixed-race M...

Trump announced the strike on Kharg Island just hours after the interview aired.

Trump has previously suggested, without evidence, that Iran possessed Tomahawk missiles and may have been responsible for using them in a strike on an Iranian girls' school.

The appeals court ruling comes less than a year after the Supreme Court greenlit bans on care for trans youth.

“It is poison,” Kennedy said. “We need to stop poisoning our kids and making sure that Americans are once again the healthiest kids on the planet.” Since then, states have passed laws banning certain...

Independent retailer Goran Raven says the higher oil price is "horrific" for him as well as his customers.

This week on CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to journalist Sam Kimball about Israel’s illegal occupation of Syria, Zionist expansion in Lebanon, and the US/Israel war on Iran...

The Service Employees International Union accused U.S. Customs and Border Protection of carrying out a "nationwide assault on immigrant airport workers."

Desde que más de 4.000 agentes del ICE llegaron a la ciudad de Minneapolis, el barista de Starbucks Alex Rivers ha intentado a equilibrar la rigurosa concentración que exige el trabajo–se espera que l...

The repeal loosens standards for roughly 90 sterilization facilities that emit the toxic chemical in neighborhoods across the country.

Earlier today, the Trump administration rolled back a 2024 EPA rule limiting commercial sterilization facilities from releasing ethylene oxide, a potent cancer-causing air pollutant. Ethylene oxide ha...

Today, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule to roll back public health regulations adopted in 2024 for commercial sterilizer facilities that use ethylene oxide to...

Sinners deserves to win Oscars: It’s a blues poem, a freedom cry, and a love letter to powerful culture.

A 59-year-old Iranian with chronic health conditions died in ICE custody just as the US-Israeli war on Iran began.

The Defense Secretary also claimed Iran's leaders were “underground,” despite video evidence showing otherwise.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Up until the end of February, a steady flow of ships bound for destinations across the wo...

Israeli strikes have killed nearly 700 people in Lebanon and over 800,000 people have been displaced.

Fiji, Hungary, and Namibia also intervened in the case as Iceland and the Netherlands back the arguments against Israel.

Doctors who went to Gaza said Israel’s suspension of travel puts vulnerable patients at risk after years of genocide. The post Israel’s Deadly Blockade Traps 7 U.S. Doctors in Gaza appeared first on T...

The last year saw avoidable deaths and increased suffering for some of the poorest and most vulnerable populations.

Bills in Alaska, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mississippi, South Dakota, and West Virginia also target medication abortion.

Iran had already decided not to take part in the World Cup in North America this summer, citing the US’s attacks.

Today's University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment dipped to 55.5 in the preliminary March reading, down 2% from 56.6 in February. Year-ahead inflation expectations came in at 3.4%, ending six months o...

A study tracks how the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade competition with Mexico led to earlier deaths for American factory workers.

We are saddened in the wake of a horrible attack on a synagogue in West Bloomfield. We are sending love and care to Jewish communities throughout Michigan, including our own members who were raised in...

Donald Trump’s efforts to blockade Cuba’s fuel supply aim to create chaos. Now more than ever, Cuba needs practical international solidarity to resist US imperialist bullying. For years, the US establ...

Less than two months before his arrest on sex-trafficking charges in 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was on top of the world—at least going by his iMessages. Over the course of three days in May, he fired off m...

As the US attacks Iran, Donald Trump is following a blueprint laid out by a long-standing force in US foreign policy: the neocons who backed the Iraq War more than 20 years ago. The US war on Iran fol...

Donald Trump fired Kristi Noem for embarrassing him on TV, not for the civil rights catastrophe she oversaw at Homeland Security. Her replacement, Markwayne Mullin, is a loyal Trump ally who promises...

Centrist Democrats claim to be the bearers of hard facts, dismissing leftist dissent as emotional and naive. But their “facts” are often a mishmash of consultant data, selectively interpreted focus gr...

The Trump administration began a trade investigation Thursday into whether dozens of countries have policies to combat forced labor.

AI-assisted warfare extends a logic with roots in the industrial warfare of the 20th century: a cold distance that turns humans into points in a dataset. Surveillance via a drone equipped with artific...

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The post Oregon Voters Overwhelmingly Said Yes to Limiting Money in Politics. Then Politicians Had Their Say. appeared first on ProPublica.

The post Nevada Regulators Fine Peptide Providers at Anti-Aging Festival Where Two Women Became Critically Ill appeared first on ProPublica.

The US bombing campaign in Iran relies heavily on British military bases. For a moment, it seemed Keir Starmer might refuse Washington access, but he has proved too cowardly to make even this basic st...

Scientists studying the plant have discovered a new way to boost the efficiency of rubisco — the enzyme that powers life on Earth — and hope to transfer the trick to crops.

The second US war on Iran in less than a year has raised a burning question in popular media: What is the rationale for the war and why is it changing? Is it because negotiations with Iran over its nu...

Eleven months. That’s how long it took DHS to admit that one of its immigration agents killed Ruben Ray Martinez as he sat in his car on South Padre Island on the Gulf Coast of Texas. And even then, t...

In coverage of the war against Iran, a familiar choreography is playing out again, one that the media have carefully refined to exploit the perceived credibility of diaspora groups in order to push wa...

Although Washington’s unrestrained militarism, which enjoys bipartisan support, is indeed cause for alarm, the erosion of the pretense of commitment to liberal-democratic values, human rights, and int...

We know that wars are costly. Having extricated ourselves from protracted Middle East conflicts just three years ago, we have clear reference points which are not reassuring. The Costs of War Project...

“Unless we find a way to overcome anti-science, humankind will face its gravest threat yet — the collapse of civilization as we know it… There is a highly organized well-funded campaign of antiscience...

Is Donald Trump the ultimate Millennial? What if Trump is not an anomaly in American politics but the purest expression of a generational cultural shift? Trump is not a Millennial by age, but his poli...

With only a few days left before Illinois’ primary elections on March 17th, the bitter, often nasty campaigns to succeed prominent members of the state’s Congressional delegation, notably four term De...

Most discussions of Iran revolve around oil, escalation, and regime change. Yet Iran today feels easier to understand as part of a much older pattern. For more than 2,500 years, states on the Iranian...

As the United States’ economic woes continue to mount and the Democrats search for a way out of their electoral doldrums, the solution is staring them in the face. Trump’s narrow electoral victory in...

Under President Donald J. Trump, the United States has now become an engine for the promulgation of White nationalism. Not since the 1930s has such an ideology, which exalts those ethnic groups it cod...

It may be pointless to keep repeating that the U.S. attack on Iran was inane, but let me mention this: the U.S. attack on Iran was idiotic. As British politician and commentator George Galloway posted...

US President Donald J. Trump has launched his most dangerous act of aggression yet on the world stage. Posterity will be taking copious notes on how the world responds. Trump’s illegal February 28, 20...

In March 2026, as Israel and the United States wage their joint war of aggression against Iran in brazen violation of international law, the MUOS (Mobile User Objective System) ground station in Nisce...

Labor Notes is delighted to welcome two terrific new staff writer-organizers and three great interns as we get ready for our big conference in Chicago in June. We’re also bidding a fond farewell to a...

The sequel brings back the co-directors of the first film, which was a smash-hit for the streaming service.

AIPAC is spending big in Tuesday’s Illinois House primaries. In the Senate race, its donors quietly lined up behind the lieutenant governor. The post AIPAC Is Staying Out of Illinois Senate Race — But...

At a civilian airport in a progressive city, the machinery of global war meets the question of who controls infrastructure.

Theo Henderson, creator of the “We the Unhoused” podcast, discusses organizing against demonization of unhoused people.

Gas prices have increased by more than 22 percent since the week before Trump launched the US’s war on Iran.

March 12, 2026 – Individuals receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over its signing of waivers restricting purchases o...

The 24,000-member Oregon Nurses Association has elected a slate of reform candidates to statewide leadership positions. The Caucus for Powerful Reform (CPR) won 15 out of the 21 seats it ran for, incl...

March 12, 2026 – During a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on Tuesday, lawmakers and witnesses repeatedly zeroed in on how the war in Iran might impact farmers who are already struggling with high...

Members of Congress should vote against any additional funding for President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran, 251 groups said today in a letter sent to Congress. Waging a war of choice tha...

Three years after the East Palestine derailment, residents are still suffering.

Youth sports should be about fun and fair play — not turning kids into anxious investments for parents and private equity. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe...

Years and years before gangster rap, satanic lyrics, glam rock, and Led Zeppelin’s groupie antics, good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll — the chosen music of the postwar youth — roused nothing less than a...

“Gen Z” protesters in Mexico rallied under the Straw Hat Pirates’ Jolly Roger from One Piece. (Isaac Ortega / ObturadorMX / Getty Images) Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click her...

Dystopian teen films will remain popular as long as they keep reflecting truths about young people’s prospects under capitalism. The pessimistic Lord of the Flies, which has been adapted many times f...

The post Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say appeared first on ProPublica.

Fortunes of the country’s 22 billionaires doubled in last five years, reaching unprecedented collective wealth of $219bn Scrunched between luxury apartment buildings and a lush gated community, the ne...

This story was originally published by Canary Media. Carole and Alan Balzer have called the town of Talent home since 1998. They met in college in nearby Ashland and never left southwestern Oregon. Th...

The post Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump appeared first on ProPublica.

The post Amid Crowded Skies, FAA Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk appeared first on ProPublica.

How officials in Crockett County are using wind investments to help older residents age in place.

A trade investigation focuses on the European Union, China, India and other countries and will likely lead to tariffs to replace those struck down by the Supreme Court.

Nick Turse and Hooman Majd discuss war on Iran and other U.S. conflicts, and Sam Biddle breaks down how AI is being used. The post Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars appeared first on The Intercept.

The post Report Confirms Columbia Ignored Decades of Doctor’s Sexual Abuse appeared first on ProPublica.

Israel, the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran must immediately cease or refrain from unlawful attacks on energy infrastructure, including facilities providing essential services such as electricity,...

Farmers from Iowa to India depend on fossil fuel-based fertilizers. Much of their supply is stuck in the Persian Gulf.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last night issued orders that approved transmission rate agreements with data centers that explicitly put households at risk for hikes in the rates they...

Three decades after winning a landmark case to protect Thai workers, Su is reflecting on the lessons she’s learned while looking ahead to how New York City can become a pro-worker capital.

Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran. The post Pentagon Report: U.S. Military Fired Missile at Eleme...

President Trump has removed more inspectors general (IGs) than all other presidents combined, leaving a gaping hole for accountability and ethics concerns according to a new Public Citizen report titl...

A coalition of antiwar groups launched a national campaign Wednesday for constituents to urge Democrats in Congress to remove Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Chuck Schumer from their posts as minority l...

From North Carolina’s small towns to its major cities, both the number and percentage of voters who participated in the Democratic primary grew compared to the 2022 season. In the Democratic primary f...

The post DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases appeared first on ProPublica.

“In theory, these students have done everything right,” says Jaime Lechner, a Class of 2025 graduate from Niagara University in upstate New York. “You know what we were told growing up: go to college,...

In the second week of an inept narcissist's spiraling war - not even of choice but of whim - that's killed over 2,000 people and wreaked widespread havoc, almost as grotesque as the witless carnage it...

The House Agriculture Committee advanced a proposed farm bill last week—a set of legislative proposals that have traditionally balanced the social safety net around food with the needs of farmers and...

The post The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. appeared first on ProPublica.

Bad actors have treated equality as a zero sum game, with women falsely portrayed as ‘winning’. Feeling they have to compete, young men are lashing out Last week, results from a global survey signalle...

There’s still no federal paid leave policy in the United States, but 14 laws now extend coverage to an estimated 46 million people.

Elected officials desperately want to cast our war with Iran as an “intervention” or “operation.” Don’t let them get away with it. The post It’s a War With Iran, Not an “Intervention” appeared first o...

March 9, 2026 – In a report released last week, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) internal watchdog office said it found no issues with the way the agency implemented a grant program under P...

The post Union Candidates Can Win Back Working-Class Voters appeared first on Inequality.org.

Last December, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched a new initiative that will set aside $700 million for regenerative agriculture techn...

The post Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers’ Reports Under Trump’s CFPB appeared first on ProPublica.

Food prices were a key issue in the 2024 presidential election, with Donald Trump blaming then-President Joe Biden for record inflation and former Vice President Kamala Harris calling out corporate pr...

The post ​​Native Students Receive Excessive Discipline in This New Mexico School District, Report Finds appeared first on ProPublica.

Treatments continue to improve. The challenge now facing ministers is hugely unequal outcomes New analysis from Cancer Research UK, revealing a 29% drop in the rate of people dying from cancer compare...

The post He Promised His Dying Mother He’d Protect the Family’s Health. In This Georgia Town, It Isn’t Easy. appeared first on ProPublica.

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Residents in rural communities across the United States continue to lose access to hospital-based obstetrics services, with the least populated counties in our country losing access at a more rapid ra...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Fifty years ago today, an explosion at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, Kentucky, killed 15 miners. Two days later, a second methane explosion ripped through the mine, killing 11...

Exclusive: Watchdog finds sharp rise in number of poorer households forced to pay for fillings and extractions Almost a third of people in England now use private dentistry, with a sharp rise in the n...

The next generation of geothermal energy is drawing on decades of talent and technical expertise developed in the oil and gas industries.

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is sowing the seeds for state collapse and unending violence across the region.

The post New York Attorney General Is Investigating Columbia for Allowing Predatory Doctor to See Patients Despite Warnings appeared first on ProPublica.

A new analysislysis from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) finds that this coming Monday (March 9) is the day that million-dollar earners stop contributing to Social Security – a mile...

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The latest jobs report shows the United States lost 92,000 jobs in February 2026, with prior months revised down by 69,000 jobs. The unemployment rate remains elevated at 4.4% and is near its highest...

Compared to their urban and suburban counterparts, a greater share of rural voters cast their ballots in the Texas primaries this year. Texas primary voters turned out in striking numbers this week, w...

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The post ProPublica Wins Lawsuit Over Access to Court Records in U.S. Navy Cases appeared first on ProPublica.

Women are in the minority in U.S. agriculture, comprising 36 percent of farmers, according to the most recent (2022) U.S. Department of Agriculture data. Because of historic and systemic discriminatio...

Public Citizen sent a letter today calling upon the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to investigate highly suspicious bets placed on the outcome of the recent American-Israeli military assa...

Since more than 4,000 ICE agents descended on the city of Minneapolis, Starbucks barista Alex Rivers has tried to balance the exacting focus the job requires—baristas are expected to write on every cu...

The post Adios Kristi! Noem’s Long History of Lying to Protect the Powerful appeared first on Inequality.org.

The president keeps attacking the Supreme Court after its tariff ruling, but SCOTUS rules for the wealthy and obstructs progressive policies. Court reform must be a priority.

March 5, 2026 – The House Agriculture Committee has advanced a 2026 Farm Bill, as Democrats failed to scale back Republican SNAP cuts and to remove protections for pesticide companies against individu...

As federal agents laid siege to the city of Minneapolis, rank-and-file postal workers in the Twin Cities organized two anti-ICE rallies. The first, on December 15, was held in response to ICE agents u...

A corporate artificial intelligence frenzy is sowing fear for workers on a massive scale. Seventy-one percent of people in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll on A.I., are concerned “too many people...

The Federal Reserve released its February 2026 Beige Book, providing an updated snapshot of economic conditions across all 12 Federal Reserve Districts. A growing share of districts reported flat or d...

The stunning beauty of the Yorkshire moors takes center stage in Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel. But by prioritizing aesthetics and romance, Fennell loses the tensions that...

Our latest senseless illegal war against brown people, born of ever-shifting lies and fought by the sons of the blithe un-rich, is Trump's ultimate Wag-the-Dog distraction from his crimes, failures an...

March 4, 2026 – Four more states will restrict what can be purchased with federal food assistance dollars after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved waivers on Wednesday. Agriculture Sec...

The sports gambling industry is pouring more than a million dollars into local Illinois races in a gambit to evade regulations and higher taxes.

The post These 20 Corporations Are Major Culprits in the Affordability Crisis appeared first on Inequality.org.

Working people — and the state and local governments who represent them — are being pushed to the brink by deep federal cuts to essential programs like Medicaid and SNAP. Those cuts didn’t happen in a...

The first time Gwen Johnson laid eyes on Ben Fink, he was on stage at Kings Creek Volunteer Fire Department performing a shape-note song.  Johnson was a board member and a driving force of Hemphill Co...

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Photography by Jake Price “I grew up fishing these waters down here just like everyone down in Shell Beach,” says Brad Robin, whose family has lived here for generations. “We never had a bike ride in...

March 3, 2025 – Trump administration lawyers told Supreme Court justices on Tuesday that they should rule in favor of the chemical company Bayer in an upcoming case that could prevent individuals from...

As the United States bombs Iran, we cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.

In Iran, Trump has brought the full extent of the war machine out into the open. Let’s channel public anger into organizing.

March 3, 2026 – Federal agencies announced on Friday they are working on a plan to “accelerate farm modernization and long-term food supply security.” The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...

The post Cuts to the IRS Workforce Will Delay Refunds Families Desperately Need appeared first on Inequality.org.

Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse The global economy must be reordered to ensure it serves ordinary people around the wo...

In the 1700s, 80 million bison roamed much of North America. They were everything to the people who lived among them: shelter, food, clothing, and medicine. Their grazing and moving fostered a whole h...

When the Trump administration threatens legal action against what is essentially a policy brainstorm, it may be a sign that the goal is to score political points rather than offer careful review. It a...

Members of the Letter Carriers (NALC) have kicked off their next contract fight. Negotiations began February 25, and their current agreement expires in May. On Sunday, February 22, letter carriers hel...

At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off. We struck for three days in November and in December in...

For years, MAGA has attacked minority groups in the name of “protecting women and children.” It turns out the real abusers are the wealthy and powerful.

In rural counties where access to emergency mental health resources is limited, Virtual Crisis Care programs are giving law enforcement on-demand access to behavioral health professionals, reducing un...

This story was co-published with KFF Health News. Families of Idahoans with disabilities say their lives could be upended as lawmakers in the state’s Republican-dominated legislature mull sweeping cut...

It’s fitting, then, that Wahpepah’s first cookbook, A Feather and a Fork, publishing on March 17, centers on intertribal foods. While the 125 recipes are largely informed by her Kickapoo heritage, the...

We know that this is not about Iran’s people, it’s about Iran’s oil and wealth.

"Bombs will be dropping everywhere," Trump said.

Mud season is not something Chambers of Commerce feature. Even those of us who love winter have cabin fever by now. Spring is still a ways off. Getting there is a slog.  But we made it through the dar...

On the poetry that influenced the Civil Rights trailblazer and the art he inspired.

There were six of us at the first meeting to form a union at Whole Foods in Philadelphia: too many to fit around the coffee shop table, a good sign, so we moved to a restaurant around the corner. We t...

As the White House takes the U.S. to war, here are five reasons to oppose the attacks on Iran.

A panel of union members call on the health care giant to return to the bargaining table in “good-faith” for contracts.

President Trump has declared that he has “won affordability.” In his State of the Union speech, he even bragged that he’s bringing costs “way down on health care and everything else.“ In reality, the...

Gol dang it. On top of everything else going on in the world, they had to go and close my thrift store?! The Georgia Avenue Thrift in Washington, D.C.’s Brightwood neighborhood was one of my happy pla...

White paper proposes changing criteria under which schools get funding to support the most disadvantaged students Plans to halve the attainment gap between the poorest pupils in England and their mor...

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Private equity firms and corporate investors have bought up hundreds of thousands of homes, driving up rents and prices while turning the American Dream into a subscription service that benefits Wall Street.

Employers steal an estimated $50 billion per year from workers through wage theft — more than all property crimes in America combined. Yet it's workers, not executives, who face consequences.

100 million Americans carry medical debt while health insurance company CEOs take home tens of millions per year. The system isn't broken — it's working exactly as designed for the people at the top.

Family farms across America are being squeezed out by corporate mega-farms, predatory contracts, and a system designed to benefit agribusiness giants at the expense of the people who actually grow our food.

A massive leak of nearly 12 million documents exposed how world leaders, billionaires, and celebrities use offshore accounts and shell companies to hide their wealth and avoid taxes.

ProPublica obtained a vast trove of IRS data on the tax returns of the wealthiest Americans, revealing that billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in taxes compared to ordinary workers.