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Inside ‘Electionland’: Tracking Voting Problems in Real Time

by Robert Faturechi .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} On Tuesday, as voters go to the polls, ProPublica will be trying something that's never been...

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Lost Cause

by Lena Groeger Seeing America through the losing candidates’ map

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Waiting to Vote: Could 2012 Offer Clues on Where Floridians Will Encounter...

by Marcelo Rochabrun When people think of voting meltdowns in Florida, their thoughts typically turn to Bush vs. Gore and the messy aftermath of the 2000 presidential election. But they needn’t look...

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HUD Has ‘Serious Concerns’ About Facebook’s Ethnic Targeting

by Stephen Engelberg The federal agency that enforces the nation’s fair housing laws said it is “in discussions” with Facebook to address what it termed “serious concerns” about the social network’s...

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Thousands of Potentially Wrongful Convictions; Years of Delayed Action

by Patrick G. Lee In August 2012, Annie Dookhan, a veteran chemist with a Massachusetts state drug lab, admitted to contaminating samples and faking test results during her 8 1/2-year career. More...

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Revenge of the Forgotten Class

by Alec MacGillis In March, I was driving along a road that led from Dayton, Ohio, into its formerly middle-class, now decidedly working-class southwestern suburbs, when I came upon an arresting...

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Facebook Says it Will Stop Allowing Some Advertisers to Exclude Users by Race

by Julia Angwin Facing a wave of criticism for allowing advertisers to exclude anyone with an “affinity” for African-American, Asian-American or Hispanic people from seeing ads, Facebook said it would...

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The Sheriff Gets His Man

by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The New York Times magazine. Ohio was once the home of the Old Guard, Main Street, county Chamber of Commerce Republican Party: stolid, sober, civil,...

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New Study Could Pressure VA to Expand Agent Orange Benefits

by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, The Virginian-Pilot This story was co-published with The Virginian-Pilot. A new study has found a close relationship between Agent Orange exposure...

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Hate Crimes Are Up — But the Government Isn’t Keeping Good Track of Them

by A.C. Thompson and Ken Schwencke In 2015, the authorities in California documented 837 hate-crime incidents, charting a surge in offenses motivated by religious intolerance toward Muslims and Jews,...

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These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers

by Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliott ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Cameron Cottrill, special to ProPublica These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour...

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After Electionland: How it Worked, What We Found and What’s Next

by Kate Brown .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} The results are in. The country has a new president-elect, and over 1,000 people joined...

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NYC Lawmakers Push For Audits of Landlords Who Pocket $1.4 Billion Tax Break

by Cezary Podkul New York City’s biggest housing subsidy may finally get more scrutiny just as state lawmakers are about to consider a massive expansion of the controversial program. The $1.4...

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We’ve Updated Prescriber Checkup with 2014 Data

by Charles Ornstein , Lena Groeger and Ryann Grochowski Jones Use this tool to compare how your doctor prescribes medications in Medicare’s drug program with other doctors in the same specialty and...

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High-dollar Prescribers Proliferate in Medicare’s Drug Program

by Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones This story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog. The number of doctors who each prescribe millions of dollars of medications annually in Medicare’s...

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Meet the Candidate For Attorney General Who’s Hunted Quail with Corporate Donors

by Robert Faturechi and Sarah Smith While Donald Trump was running for the White House, he bashed politicians who courted the billionaire Koch brothers as “puppets” and vowed to “drain the swamp” in...

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The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance into Harvard

by Daniel Golden This story was co-published with The Guardian. I would like to express my gratitude to Jared Kushner for reviving interest in my 2006 book, “The Price of Admission.” I have never met...

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The Presidential Polls Weren’t As Wrong as the Interpreters

by Robert Faturechi .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} The polls, of course, turned out to be wrong. In the days since the election, reporters and...

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Donald Trump and the Return of Seditious Libel

by Richard Tofel Updated (Nov. 21, 2016): Since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump has continuously complained about coverage from The New York Times and others. As ProPublica’s Dick...

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Confusion Over Drug Tests Highlights Lack of Training for Florida Officers

by Topher Sanders and Ryan Gabrielson This story was co-published with the Tampa Bay Times. Over the first several months of 2014, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested 15 people on drug...

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