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After Taiwan Trip, NY Congressman Orders Ethics Training for Staff
by Justin Elliott Rep. Bill Owens, D-N.Y., is ordering ethics training for his staff following a ProPublica story on a trip the congressman and his wife took to Taiwan that was organized by lobbyists....
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Separated By Massacre, a Father And Son Reunite Three Decades Later
by Sebastian Rotella Read our original story, "Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala." It was a day of firsts for Tranquilino Castañeda, a 70-year-old farmer from a jungle village...
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Chatting With the Reporters Behind Dollars for Docs
by Marshall Allen Since 2010, ProPublica reporters Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber have been investigating the influence of pharmaceutical companies on medicine. Their reporting exposed the financial...
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Podcast: How We Found Oscar
by Minhee Cho In 1982, the small Guatemalan village of Dos Erres was invaded by a group of army commandos known as the Kaibiles. More than 250 men, women and children were slaughtered. One of the few...
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Help Us Track How Politicians Target You
by Jeff Larson and Al Shaw Political campaigns are using increasingly sophisticated methods to target messages to voters, methods that are not at all transparent. We need your help to uncover and...
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Drones
by Cora Currier Everyone is talking about drones. Also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs, remote-piloted aircrafts have become a controversial centerpiece of the Obama administration's...
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Video: Oscar Reunites With His Father
Video by Melanie Burford, Special to Propublica. Introduction by Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica. Last week, ProPublica, This American Life and Fundación MEPI produced in-depth stories about a father and...
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Cheat Sheet: Behind The U.S. Cyberattacks on Iran
by Megha Rajagopalan This morning, The New York Times published a report detailing how the Bush and Obama administrations created the cyberweapon known as Stuxnet and used it to disrupt Iran’s uranium...
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The Best Watchdog Journalism on Obama’s National Security Policies
by Blair Hickman and Cora Currier .nat-sec-subhead { padding-top:20px; } Inspired by The New York Times’ expose on Obama’s “secret ‘kill list,’” we collected some of the best pieces of watchdog...
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RIP, Marion O. Sandler
by Paul Steiger, Stephen Engelberg and Richard Tofel, ProPublica Marion O. Sandler's name isn't listed formally on this site, but ProPublica literally wouldn't exist without her. She died yesterday at...
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How Bank of America Execs Hid Losses—In Their Own Words
by Cora Currier .DC-note-container {margin-bottom: 12px;} June 7: This post has been updated and corrected. When Bank of America announced it was buying Merrill Lynch in September 2008, bank execs...
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Dissecting Obama’s Standard on Drone Strike Deaths
by Justin Elliott In a lengthy front-page story last week exploring President Obama's use of drone strikes in countries including Pakistan and Yemen, the New York Times reported that the president had...
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Anatomy of a Cell Tower Death
Liz Day, ProPublica and Ryan Knutson, PBS Frontline Understanding the contracting chain on cell tower jobs can be complicated, but crucial when workers die. William “Bubba” Cotton, 43, was the first of...
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Guiding You Through the Govt’s Foreclosure Compensation Maze
by Paul Kiel June 7: This post has been corrected. If you're a victim of banking abuses during the foreclosure crisis, the government says it'll make sure you receive compensation from your bank. It's...
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Bill Introduced to Reform Workers’ Comp for Military Contractors
by Cora Currier The ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform introduced legislation today that would shore up workers' compensation insurance for civilian military...
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Republicans Vote to Block Transparency on Political Ads
by Justin Elliott The opponents of a new rule to post political ad information online have opened up another front in a long-running fight, inserting language into an appropriations bill that would...
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North Dakota’s Oil Boom Brings Damage Along With Prosperity
by Nicholas Kusnetz, Special to ProPublica Oil drilling has sparked a frenzied prosperity in Jeff Keller's formerly quiet corner of western North Dakota in recent years, bringing an infusion of jobs...
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Help ProPublica Celebrate its 4th Birthday!
by Stephen Engelberg and Richard Tofel This weekend marks four years since we began publishing, and we hope you'll take just a moment to mark the occasion. Please consider a donation so that we can...
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Are State-Sponsored Hackers Targeting Your Gmail?
by Megha Rajagopalan This week Google announced that it would notify Gmail users if they might be the target of a "state-sponsored attack" — an apparent attempt by a government to hack an email...
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Five ‘Stand Your Ground’ Cases You Should Know About
by Suevon Lee The Stand Your Ground law is most widely associated with the Feb. 26 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old killed in Florida by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch...
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