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Schwarzenegger and DSK: When Powerful Men Cross Lines
by Tracy Weber Editor's note: It was 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger was running as the Republican candidate for governor. Tracy Weber, then a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, detailed Schwarzeneggers’s...
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Fact-checking Trump and Clinton on the Billionaire’s Tax Break
by Alec MacGillis The only thing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump seemed to agree upon in last Sunday’s debate — indeed, one of the few substantive policy exchanges they had — was the need to...
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‘Only White People,’ Said the Little Girl
by Topher Sanders This story was co-published with The New York Times’ Sunday Review. Few things are more awesome than listening to kids playing on the playground. There’s magic in that mix of...
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SRSLY: More Women More Crime?
by David Epstein SRSLY The best reporting you probably missed David Epstein Welcome to SRSLY, an (experimental) newsletter highlighting under-exposed accountability journalism. We’ll distill the...
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Super PAC to Billionaire: We Need More Money to Save a Republican Senate
by Robert Faturechi and Lauren Kirchner To understand how Donald Trump’s comments and alleged mistreatment of women are stoking the anxiety of other Republicans, look no further than the private...
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Codes of Silence and Journalism’s Obligations
by Topher Sanders .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} The integrity of police officers and the departments they work for have come under...
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How Europe Left Itself Open to Terrorism
by Sebastian Rotella This story was co-published with Frontline. Updated (Oct. 18, 2016): This story has been updated to include additional information about the questioning and subsequent release of...
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Breaking the Black Box: How Machines Learn to Be Racist
by Jeff Larson , Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. ProPublica Machine Bias Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Episode 1 Facebook Episode 2 Prices Episode 3 Machine Learning Episode 4...
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New York City Council Moves to Overhaul Nuisance Abatement Enforcement
by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and the New York Daily News, This story was co-published with the New York Daily News. Updated (Oct. 19, 2016): This story has been updated to include responses from the...
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U.S. Identifies Key Player in ISIS Attacks on Europe
by Sebastian Rotella This story was co-published with Frontline. Almost a year after Islamic State terrorists killed 130 people in Paris, U.S. intelligence agencies have identified one of the...
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How Are Elections Run in Your County?
by Ken Schwencke and Derek Willis One way to predict how the 2016 election will run is to look at how things went the last time we elected a president.
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Disenfranchised by Bad Design
by Lena Groeger Visual Evidence Data and design in everyday life Lena Groeger This Nov. 8, even if you manage to be registered in time and have the right identification, there is something else that...
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If You Live In These Tax-Subsidized Buildings, You Are Entitled to a Rent Freeze
by Cezary Podkul Search for your building to see if your landlord has been approved for the program and registered your building for rent stabilization, as required by law. If not, you may be paying...
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Thousands of NYC Landlords Who Ignored Rent Caps Got Tax Breaks They Didn’t...
by Cezary Podkul When Olga Ortiz found a large, sunny apartment on a tree-lined street in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood several years ago, she felt like she’d won the lottery. With three kids and a...
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Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
by Julia Angwin Updated (Oct. 21, 2016): After we published this story, Google reached out to say that it doesn’t currently use Gmail keywords to target web ads. We’ve updated the story to reflect...
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New Jersey Lawmakers Vote to Forgive Dead Students’ Loans
by Annie Waldman This story was co-published with The New York Times. The New Jersey Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to approve a bill requiring that the state’s student loan agency forgive the...
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The Democrats’ Bad Map
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The New York Times’ Sunday Review. Even as Hillary Clinton appears poised to win easily against a highly erratic candidate with a campaign in...
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Should Media Employees Give to Campaigns?
by Jessica Huseman .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} During the 2016 election, journalists have become part of the story in an unprecedented way....
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That Time I Was Investigated for Voter Fraud
by Derek Willis Here’s how I learned that someone voted as me in the 2012 general election. On March 26, 2014, three investigators from Maryland’s Office of the State Prosecutor sat at my dining room...
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