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  Katie Phang Sep 22, 2026 Perpetually “concerned” Susan Collins should be very concerned about the latest blockbuster reporting from ProPublica, revealing her involvement in an alleged bribery/pay to play scheme. Katie Phang dives deep into the details, including the interesting timing of awarding defense contracts to a specific firm right after that firm made campaign “donations” to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Subscribe to Katie's Substack here: https://katiephang.substack.com Listen to the audio podcast Sidebar with Katie Phang for daily updates on breaking news: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4yIgs1w... How this was made Auto-dubbed Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated. Learn more Ask Get answers, explore topics, and more Ask questions Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript

  Hi Reader,   ProPublica does one thing, and one thing only: publish investigative journalism in the public interest. That means when power is abused, we show up. Taxpayer money is secretly misused, a greedy corporation puts profits over safety, a new government policy has unforeseen consequences for people — we uncover what happened. We document the systems, decisions and individuals responsible for creating the problem, and we put that information on the record, in our stories, in the service of impact.    This is how investigative journalism is different from the daily news. We follow the paper trails, interview the people affected, examine the data and records, and show you not just what’s happening, but how it’s happened, who’s responsible, and what it means for democracy and your daily lives.    Journalism like this is built on a fundamentally optimistic view of our democracy: When our fellow citizens know the truth, they will demand reforms. We spe...

  Hi Reader,   Emily Waldorf was 17 weeks pregnant when a doctor told her, “Your body is about to miscarry.”    Her cervix was dilated, it had opened too soon, and she was going to lose the daughter whose nursery she was just getting ready to decorate.    This news was both devastating and dangerous. Three doctors gathered in the hospital room and told Waldorf and her husband that the longer her cervix remained open and her uterus exposed to bacteria, the higher her risk of developing a life-threatening infection. The standard of care, they explained, would be to quickly empty her womb.    But they couldn’t do that, one doctor said apologetically, sighing deeply. Doing so would run afoul of the Arkansas state abortion ban. Legally, they said they could not intervene until she went into labor on her own or showed signs of a dangerous infection, or until the fetal heartbeat ended. Waldorf struggled to understand what the doctors were saying as waves...