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Dark Money and the 2012 Election: We Need Your Help!
by Paul Steiger and Stephen EngelbergWhen historians dissect the 2012 elections, they will almost certainly look beyond the daily ebb and flow of momentum to a larger truth: This was the year outside...
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Welcome to Election Day: Seven Things That Could Go Wrong (or Already Have)
by Suevon LeeUpdate: We've compiled reports that offer a look at how Election Day has gone thus far. Nov. 6: This post has been corrected.Get ready. Here are all the things that could go wrong (or...
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Obama’s Microtargeting ‘Nuclear Codes’
by Lois Beckett Time magazine's Michael Scherer talked with a group of Obama campaign advisers this past weekend, and provided an inside look at some of the data and targeting tactics behind the...
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The Outlook for “Obamacare” in Two Maps
by Tracy Weber and Charles OrnsteinIt wasn’t just President Barack Obama who won Tuesday. His signature health care plan did as well. But while the Affordable Care Act remains alive, less clear is how...
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Read the Documents Treasury Has Been Keeping Secret
by Paul KielIn 2010 and 2011, ProPublica submitted Freedom of Information Act requests for documents showing how the government supervised its flagship foreclosure prevention effort, the Home...
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Secret Documents Show Weak Oversight of Key Foreclosure Program
by Paul KielThe Obama administration launched its main program to prevent foreclosures in the spring of 2009 with $50 billion and abundant promises. What the Home Affordable Modification Program, or...
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Meet the 10 People Leading ProPublica’s Free the Files Effort
by Amanda Zamora #ftf-image {width:630px !important;}The task was steep. Nearly six weeks ago, ProPublica issued a call for volunteers willing to help us extract key data locked inside thousands of...
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New York’s Ongoing Blackout: Hospitals in Lower Manhattan
by Charles Ornstein Long after power is restored from Sandy, the effect of another more-precarious outage is still taking shape: Some of the largest hospitals in lower Manhattan remain shuttered....
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Check ‘Em Out: Donations to Dark Money Group Revealed
by Kim Barker, ProPublica, and Emma Schwartz, Frontline Last week, when a Montana district judge ordered the release of its bank records, Western Tradition Partnership became the first modern dark...
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How Much Did Independent Groups Spend Per Vote?
by Al ShawAlthough an unprecedented amount was spent by outside groups in an effort to influence the 2012 campaign, the candidates with the most super PAC funding were defeated Tuesday. Here’s a look...
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Exec Who Allegedly Enabled Fraud Runs Chase’s Effort to Compensate...
by Paul Kiel An executive who the Justice Department says facilitated a scheme to defraud Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is now spearheading JPMorgan Chase's role in the government's program to compensate...
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Yes, Companies Are Harvesting – and Selling – Your Facebook Profile
by Lois BeckettYesterday, we got a rare look at how information on your public social media profiles—including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn—is being harvested and resold by large consumer data...
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In California, Democrats’ Redistricting Strategy Paid Off
by Olga PierceLast year we wrote about how Democrats used front groups, disingenuous testimony, and other aggressive tactics to manipulate California’s independent redistricting commission. The effort...
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Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq,...
by Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublica, and Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times #pubnotes {width: 300px; border-right: 10px solid #FFFFFF; float:left;} #pubnotes-content {height: 730px; border-right: 1px...
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Buyer of Wild Horses Under Investigation by State, Feds
by Dave Philipps, Special to ProPublicaThis story was co-published with the Colorado Springs Gazette. A southern Colorado man under investigation for his handling of protected wild horses has admitted...
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A Son Lost in Iraq, but Where Is the Casualty Report?
by Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublica WELLSVILLE, Kan. — The day after Jim Butler learned his son had died in Iraq in 2003, a U.S. Army casualty officer showed up at the family's small ranch to...
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Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq,...
by Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublica, and Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times #pubnotes {width: 300px; border-right: 10px solid #FFFFFF; float:left;} #pubnotes-content {height: 780px; border-right: 1px...
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Outside Groups Dominated Las Vegas Airwaves in 2012 Campaign
by Theodoric MeyerDark money groups that don’t have to disclose their donors spent hundreds of millions in this election cycle. And now we’ve got a better idea of the extent of their spending in one...
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Everything We Know (So Far) About Obama’s Big Data Tactics
by Lois BeckettFor the past nine months, we’ve been following how political campaigns use data about voters to target them in different ways. During the election, the Obama campaign, which had...
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Mapping Segregation in Westchester
by Nikole Hannah-JonesIt is one of the most common arguments used to justify federal inaction in pushing communities that get government housing dollars to become more racially diverse: Class, not...
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