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Is Your Member of Congress Telling It Straight On The ACA? Help Us Fact-Check...
by Terry Parris Jr. We're looking for civically engaged people to help us fact-check what members of Congress are sending to their constituents. And we are particularly looking at how they respond...
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Fact-Checking Elected Officials on the Affordable Care Act Repeal
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with Kaiser Health News, Stat and Vox. Dismayed by the results of the 2016 election, Meg Godfrey decided she needed to do more than vote, share social...
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Introducing Vital Signs
by Scott Klein and Sisi Wei ProPublica has accumulated a wealth of data about how medicine is really practiced in the U.S. We’ve got millions of data points on things we believe everyone should know...
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We Want Your Thoughts on Our Podcast
by Joaquin Sapien .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Two months ago, we launched The Breakthrough, a podcast where investigative journalists tell...
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When It Comes to Wall Street, Preet Bharara Is No Hero
by Jesse Eisinger After his election in 1968, President Richard Nixon asked Robert Morgenthau, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to resign. Morgenthau refused to leave...
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Can Customs and Border Officials Search Your Phone? These Are Your Rights
by Patrick G. Lee Updated (Mar. 13, 2017): This story has been updated to add that Customs and Border Protection agents must have probable cause of wrongdoing to make stops outside the 100-mile border...
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Is Preet Bharara Trying to Tell Us Something?
by Cezary Podkul Fired by President Donald Trump, Preet Bharara left behind a mysterious, thirteen-word message. “By the way, I know what the Moreland Commission must have felt like,” he tweeted on...
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For-Profit Colleges Gain Beachhead in Trump Administration
by Annie Waldman Until June 2016, Taylor Hansen lobbied for the largest trade group of for-profit colleges. At the forefront of its agenda: eliminating a rule known as “gainful employment,” which can...
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Trump’s Defense Secretary Cites Climate Change as National Security Challenge
by Andrew Revkin Secretary of Defense James Mattis has asserted that climate change is real, and a threat to American interests abroad and the Pentagon’s assets everywhere, a position that appears at...
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Across the Country, Reports of Swastika Graffiti
by Ken Schwencke Browse examples of anti-Semitic graffiti collected as part of our “Documenting Hate” project.
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Lawyers Formally Ask That Guilty Verdict Be Set Aside in Etan Patz Murder Case
by Joe Sexton Lawyers for the man convicted in the killing of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old Manhattan boy who went missing in 1979, have filed a motion asking the judge in the case to set aside the guilty...
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Updated Debt by Degrees
by Sisi Wei and Annie Waldman Use our interactive database to search federal data on almost 7,000 schools in the U.S. to see how well they support their poorest students financially. Now updated with...
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Nothin’ but Debt: Which NCAA Tournament Schools Give Low-Income Students the...
by Mike Tigas and Olga Pierce Instead of basketball skill, our bracket is based on five factors that measure each school’s ability to graduate low-income students with little debt.
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Fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Said to Have Been Investigating HHS...
by Robert Faturechi Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was removed from his post by the Trump administration last week, was overseeing an investigation into stock trades made by the president’s...
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As Trump Slashes EPA, Worry Over the Fate of an Agency Doing Similar Work
by Lisa Song It has little name recognition, a budget less than 10 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency’s, and is part of a government institute embraced by both of the nation’s major...
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The Cost of Trump’s Wall Compared to the Programs He’s Proposing to Cut
by Joe Sexton A Closer Look Examining the news Joe Sexton The fiscal 2018 price for President Trump’s border wall is in: $2.6 billion. That’s a cost to U.S. taxpayers, not a cost many people any...
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The First Brick in the Wall
by T. Christian Miller President Donald Trump’s administration announced a $600 million bidding contest late Friday night to kick off construction of The Wall, a towering physical barrier between the...
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Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&R Block and Intuit Are Still...
by Jessica Huseman Here’s how preparing your taxes could work: You sit down, review a prefilled filing from the government. If it’s accurate, you sign it. If it’s not, you fix it or ignore it...
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What ProPublica Is Doing About Diversity in 2017
by Lena Groeger and Sisi Wei We have written before about the steps ProPublica is taking to increase the diversity of our workplace as well as in the journalism community more broadly. In 2017, we...
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