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How Microsoft and Yahoo Are Selling Politicians Access to You
by Lois Beckett Microsoft and Yahoo are selling political campaigns the ability to target voters online with tailored ads using names, Zip codes and other registration information that users provide...
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MuckReads Podcast: Violence and Painkillers in Professional Hockey
by Minhee Cho In the world of hockey, violence on the ice is not only integral but encouraged. And for enforcers, like Derek Boogaard, being able to fight strategically and intimidate opposing players...
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Introducing a New, Non-Evil Way to Share our Stories on Facebook
by Blair Hickman We launched a new feature today that makes it possible to automatically share on Facebook any ProPublica articles you read. Don’t worry: This will impact you only if you turn on...
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Message Machine: Dinner at Sarah Jessica Parker’s House
by Jeff Larson The 2012 Presidential campaigns have massive, state-of-the-art databases that contain data on millions of voters and past supporters, which they’re using to compete in a campaign that’s...
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Media Companies Make Yet Another Push to Defang Transparency Rule
by Justin Elliott A group of broadcasters are formally asking the Federal Communications Commission to soften a new rule requiring TV stations to put political ad data on the Internet. Washington...
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Charting the Cozy Connections between JP Morgan and the Senate Banking Committee
by Cora Currier This morning, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, faced a Senate hearing over more than $2 billion in bank losses caused by risky hedges that blew up. Dimon said that the...
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Grieving Father Struggles to Pay Dead Son’s Student Loans
by Marian Wang A few months after he buried his son, Francisco Reynoso began getting notices in the mail. Then the debt collectors came calling. "They would say, 'We don't care what happened with your...
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The New ‘Dallas’: Sex, Scandal and U.S. Energy Policy!
by Abrahm Lustgarten Did the fracking debate dredge up ‘Dallas’ – the redux – or was this soap opera’s resurgence just another convenient mirror in which to reflect how central the nation’s debate...
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Could The Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling Kill Patient Safety Reforms?
by Olga Pierce and Marshall Allen In all the talk about the Supreme Court’s impending health care reform ruling, one question is often overlooked: What might happen to the many patient safety and...
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Why the Feds Are Suing Florida for Allegedly Purging Voters
by Suevon Lee On Tuesday, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Florida over its voter purge program aimed at removing non-citizens from voter rolls. We’ve taken a closer look at the...
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Obama Administration’s Drone Death Figures Don’t Add Up
by Justin Elliott Last month, a “senior administration official” said the number of civilians killed in drone strikes in Pakistan under President Obama is in the “single digits.” But last year “U.S....
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Interactive: How Obama Drone Death Claims Stack Up
by Justin Elliott , Cora Currier and Lena Groeger
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JPMorgan’s Connections to the House Finance Committee
by Cora Currier JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is on Capitol Hill again today, this time to talk to the House Financial Services committee about the bank's recent multibillion-dollar trading loss....
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Message Machine Update: A Cameo by Sheldon Adelson
by Jeff Larson On Saturday, the Obama campaign sent an email to supporters mentioning Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who has donated millions to Republican super PACs. Politico noticed...
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Republicans Back Down On Effort to Defund Transparency Rule
by Justin Elliott Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee today dropped an effort to defund a new Federal Communications Commission rule that will make political ad data available on the...
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By the Numbers: The U.S.’s Growing For-Profit Detention Industry
by Suevon Lee The growth of the private detention industry has long been a subject of scrutiny. A recent eight-part series in the New Orleans Times-Picayune chronicled how more than half of...
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Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us
by Abrahm Lustgarten Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation's geology as an...
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The Facts Behind Obama’s Executive Privilege Claim
by Cora Currier Yesterday, the Obama administration invoked executive privilege to prevent the release of certain documents to Congress related to Operation Fast and Furious, the arms-trafficking...
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Graphic: Who are the Super PACs’ Biggest Donors?
by Al Shaw An interactive chart showing the share of all contributions given by the top ten donors to each of the 12 largest super PACs.
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Drone Documents: Why The Government Won’t Release Them
by Cora Currier .DC-note-container {margin-bottom: 10px;} The covert U.S. effort to strike terrorist leaders using drones has moved further out of the shadows this year — targeted killing has been...
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