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Back to SearchTrump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We we…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the 2025 government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for President Donald Trump’s se…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 5
Episode 5
Phoebe gets its way and sidelines its critics. Mrs. Parker learns what happened to her husband.
Written by Ginger Thompson. Read by Eric Berryman, My…
7 months ago
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 4
Episode 4
The board that oversees Phoebe decides not to release a report that finds the cost of care at the hospital is higher than its peers.
Written by Ginge…
7 months ago
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 3
Episode 3
Phoebe pays an exorbitant sum to acquire its rival hospital, and its debt increases and patients suffer.
Written by Ginger Thompson. Read by Eric Be…
7 months ago
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 2
Episode 2
Founded in 1911 as a community hospital, a hundred years later Phoebe becomes a sprawling health care system and wages a yearslong battle to eliminat…
7 months ago
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1
Episode 1
Why does the United States, with the most expensive and sophisticated health care system in the world, have a population that’s so sick? Writer Ginge…
7 months ago
Introducing “ProPublica Narrated”
ProPublica’s best long-form investigations, narrated. Coming soon: “Sick in a Hospital Town.” Read by actors, the five-part investigation by Ginger T…
7 months ago