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Failing the Smell Test
by Topher Sanders This story was co-published with the Tampa Bay Times. In February 2012, an undercover member of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office met with a teenager nicknamed “Joker” in a...
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U.S. Identifies ISIS Planner in Attacks on Europe
by Sebastian Rotella U.S. and European counterterror officials are zeroing in on Islamic State masterminds of a terror campaign against Europe that continues despite military setbacks for ISIS in the...
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Jared Kushner Isn’t Alone: Universities Still Give Rich and Connected...
by Daniel Golden This story was co-published with Town & Country. When Georgetown University announced plans in September to make amends for its historical participation in the slave trade,...
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Is the EPA’s Landmark ‘Endangerment Finding’ Now Itself Imperiled?
by Abrahm Lustgarten Donald Trump has called climate change a “hoax” and said he plans to unburden American industries from Obama-era requirements to limit emissions of carbon dioxide and the other...
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Surprise: Trump’s Advisor on Wall Street Regulations is a Longtime Swamp-Dweller
by Jesse Eisinger President-elect Donald Trump’s transition-team adviser on financial policies and appointments, Paul Atkins, has been depicted as an ideological advocate of small government. But the...
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NYC To Put 3,000 Landlords On Notice: Comply With Law or Lose Tax Benefits
by Cezary Podkul New York City housing and finance officials will notify 3,000 landlords next week that they will lose a lucrative property tax break unless they follow procedures aimed at limiting...
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In An Ugly Election Result, Hate Surges Online
by A.C. Thompson and Ken Schwencke Over the past month, more than 564,000 unique visitors have spent time on the Daily Stormer, a website that takes its name from a Hitler-era German tabloid, “Der...
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How Journalists Need to Begin Imagining the Unimaginable
by Eric Umansky .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Journalist Masha Gessen has spent years reporting on Vladimir Putin’s rule in Russia. She has...
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Prosecutors in Portland Change Policy on Drug Convictions
by Ryan Gabrielson For years, they were among the most routine proceedings in criminal court in Portland, Oregon. Defendants facing drug possession charges based on inexpensive test kits used by...
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We May Not Know If Trump’s Foreign Business Deals Violate the Constitution
by Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, The question of whether President-elect Donald Trump will run afoul of federal conflict-of-interest rules or the Constitution because of his extensive foreign investments...
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There’s No Evidence Our Election Was Rigged
by Jessica Huseman and Scott Klein President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to claim that he would have won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”...
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Medical Innovation Bill Would Water Down Disclosure of Industry Payments to...
by Charles Ornstein Updated (Nov. 29, 2016): Provisions in the 21st Century Cures Act dealing with disclosure of physician payments were removed from the bill Tuesday, following criticism from some...
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New in Represent: House Office Expenditures
Researchers can track official spending by lawmakers and committees.
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Would Washington’s FDA Fix Cure the Patients or the Drug Industry?
by Alec MacGillis Updated (Nov. 30, 2016): This week, Congress is taking back up a sweeping bill introduced last year that would expand medical research funding while also loosening the regulations...
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How To Leak To ProPublica
Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. And it requires evidence. Documents are a crucial part of that. We are always on the lookout for them — especially, now, for those regarding the...
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N.C. Governor Loses Re-Election Bid, Attempts to Hold Power by Claiming Voter...
by Jessica Huseman While much of the country debates President-elect Donald Trump’s baseless claim that millions of people voted illegally in the presidential election, the Republican governor of...
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Trump’s Treasury Secretary Pick is a Lucky Man. Very Lucky.
by Jesse Eisinger Steven Mnuchin has made a career out of being lucky. The former Goldman Sachs banker nominated to become Donald Trump’s treasury secretary had the perspicacity to purchase a...
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Why Trump Would Almost Certainly Be Violating the Constitution If He...
by Richard Tofel Far from ending with President-elect Trump’s announcement that he will separate himself from the management of his business empire, the constitutional debate about the meaning of the...
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Jury Awards $93 Million in Federal Fraud Case Against Allied Home Mortgage
by Tracy Weber A federal jury has ordered two Texas-based home mortgage companies and their chief executive to pay nearly $93 million for defrauding the government by issuing improper and risky home...
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How Journalists Need to Go Beyond Fact Checking Trump
by Eric Umansky .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} All the way back in March, Dartmouth political science professor Brendan Nyhan wrote a prescient...
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