How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners.

Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

Sounds like very important work. The article isn't paywalled -- does that answer your question? If not, feel free to contact me at pamela.colloff@propublica.org

It was an honor!

They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom. An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

As more states enact survivor-justice laws, it remains to be seen if the criminal justice system is capable of perceiving someone like Wilkens not just as a perpetrator who must be punished but also as a victim deserving of mercy.

Read the full story by @pamelacolloff.bsky.social:

Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real Robert did some reporting o...

ICYMI: A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real @robert-faturechi.bsky.social did some reporting of his own.

BookPeople Events Presents: Isaac Fitzgerald (author of DIRTBAG, MASSACHUSETTS) with Pamela Colloff (author of CATCH THE DEVIL) on Tuesday, June 2nd at 7PM

Join DIRTBAG, MASSACHUSETTS author Isaac Fitzgerald on June 2nd discussing AMERICAN RAMBLER: WALKING THE TRAIL OF JOHNNY APPLESEED with Pamela Colloff.
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Catch the Devil by Pamela Colloff: 9780593230862 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books The riveting, true story of an audacious con man who helped send another man to death row for a murder he did not commit “Incendiary, emotionally devastating. [This] is a feat of dogged reporting,...

Thanks for asking! My first book comes out in July. It's the true story of a con artist who married nine women, some at the same time. He spent decades inventing confessions he claimed other men made, until one lie helped send a man to Florida’s death row.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665293...

I LOVE THIS COVER!!

Paperback cover of WITHOUT CONSENT with a yellow and black color scheme

The paperback edition of WITHOUT CONSENT (with a very different cover) isn’t out till November 3 but pre-orders are welcome right now! www.harpercollins.com/products/wit...

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

When Bondi took over, the DOJ declined to prosecute a staggering 23,000 criminal cases, including those stemming from yearslong investigations into charges of terrorism, white collar crime and drugs.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“Whatever this bundle of personal-brand rights McConaughey is asserting morphs into over time … we might one day look back and see that [he] has trademarked something else entirely: A prototype for personal agency in a world of AI."

I wish we could go back to this! Beautiful!

Copy of Sam Houston's signature from an antebellum letter he wrote included in the Ed Burleson, Jr. papers at the Briscoe Center, UT Austin.

Was Sam Houston's signature a little much? Sure. But yours could be a little more.

A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated with one Black juror - Mississippi Today The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal this month from death row inmate Terry Pitchford who was denied relief by the Mississippi Supreme Court after his attorneys claimed Black people were illegal...

Please read this enraging @mississippitoday.org investigation into the practice of striking prospective Black jurors from Mississippi juries. Prosecutors cited "strange hair" or a bad "vibe"--and appeals courts upheld it. SCOTUS looks at one such case on 3/31:

mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/m...

I've been wondering that!

The iconic Cesar Chavez mural in East Austin...is gone.

The 2025-26 winners are The Hornblower Award for a First Book: Alexander Wood, Building the Metropolis: Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880-1935 (The University of Chicago Press) Bench Ansfield, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W.W. Norton & Company) Patrick Dougher, Concrete Dreamland: Coming of Age in Underground New York (Little, Brown and Company) David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan, City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island (NYU Press) Elon Green, The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York (Celadon Books)

Would you look at that... I won the New York City Book Award! www.nysoclib.org/2025-2026-ne...

Thank you!!

A big takeaway this year has to be that Sinners and One Battle After Another were big, artist driven, swings bankrolled by WB whose future is ultimately unclear. I like living in a world where people like PTA and Ryan Coogler get to make the films they want to make with those resources.

YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL!!! Thank you!!!

An incredible story, so well told.

I'm so glad to hear you made that connection. I didn't spell that out explicitly in the story, but it was very much on my mind while writing it.

Thank you so much.

Thanks so much Deborah!

I had no idea!

A Father Murdered His Family. Did He Deserve to Be Set Free? — Rolling Stone Kimberly was the only survivor that fateful night. But she believes her father deserved forgiveness

When my mother died, I wrote a letter to the name plaintiff on her case—who was serving a life sentence for an unthinkable crime—to talk about grief.

When he passed, his daughter reached out said she’d like me to tell her story too.

My latest for @rollingstone.com:

apple.news/A7c7VYYnrTc6...

My latest, a collaboration between @propublica.org + @nytimes.com, is on the cover of today's New York Times Magazine.

The gift link leads you to the excellent audio version of the story by Julia Whalen:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/m...

Thank you for your expert editing and guidance!

A Secret Survey From Inside a Women’s Prison Tells Stories of Domestic Abuse Untold in Court From inside a women’s prison in Oklahoma, a domestic violence survivor began collecting other prisoners’ stories of abuse. Their accounts helped shape a new Oklahoma law intended to reduce their sente...

For @propublica.org’s weekly newsletter, @pamelacolloff.bsky.social shares stories that one incarcerated woman collected inside prison. The accounts speak to what they see as a link between domestic abuse and their convictions.

Powerful.

www.propublica.org/article/okla...