Nick McMillan
Stories
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Environment
'That’s a bloodbath': How a federal program kills wildlife for private interests
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National
Reexamining the one-sided history depicted on markers in the U.S.
Historical markers from the Atlantic through the Midwest tell a classic American tale of innocent white settlers killed by Native Americans. Many of the markers only tell half the story.
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Arts & Life
Historical markers in America: the good, the bad and the quirky
More than 180,000 historical markers dot the U.S. in a fractured and confused telling of America — where offensive lies live with impunity, history is distorted and errors are both strange and funny.
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Historical markers are everywhere in America. Some get history wrong
The nation's historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.
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National
Many people living in the 'Diabetes Belt' are plagued with medical debt
More than half of the counties in the nation's so-called Diabetes Belt also have high rates of medical debt among their residents, an NPR analysis found.
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Environment
When train crashes leak harmful chemicals, small town firefighters can be vulnerable
Firefighters are often "woefully under-equipped" to handle train accidents that emit hazardous materials. Most of those serious enough to cause evacuations happened near small towns.
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Politics
Election deniers have taken their fraud theories on tour — to nearly every state
Even as the Jan. 6 hearings play out, election misinformation keeps spreading. NPR tracked four leaders preaching false information about election fraud at hundreds of grassroots events nationwide.