Podcast
ProPublica Narrated
Episodes — page 3
- Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the Environmental Protection Agency now forces the removal of the…
- Fighting for Breath: How the FDA’s Lax Generic Drug Rules Put Her Life at Risk
Lung transplant patient Hannah Goetz’s life depended on the generic version of a critical drug. It was supposed to be equivalent to the brand-name medication — but the FDA doesn’t…
- Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliatio…
- The Summer of Starvation
After the Trump administration cut off food aid from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved. This sto…
- Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis
Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death. By Brett Murphy…
- Trump 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 went to South Sudan and found peo…
- The Shadow PresidentExplicit
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the 2025 government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for President Donald Trump’s second term. Vought has consolida…
- Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 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, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Dael Orland…
- Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 4Explicit
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 Ginger Thompson. Read by Eric Berrym…
- Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 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 Berryman, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Da…
- Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 2Explicit
Founded in 1911 as a community hospital, a hundred years later Phoebe becomes a sprawling health care system and wages a yearslong battle to eliminate its competition. Read by Eric…
- Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 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 Ginger Thompson looks for the answer…
- Introducing “ProPublica Narrated”Trailer
ProPublica’s best long-form investigations, narrated. Coming soon: “Sick in a Hospital Town.” Read by actors, the five-part investigation by Ginger Thompson seeks answers to the qu…
