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Our Editor Won a 6-Year Legal Battle. It Didn’t Feel Like a Victory.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Every fall, I spend an evening in my investigative …