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How Are You Filing Your Federal Income Taxes?
by Amanda Zamora Earlier this week, Liz Day reported how Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, has led a fight to squash “return free” income tax filing, spending more than $11 million lobbying in part to...
View ArticleWestchester County Could Lose Millions for Fair Housing Failures
by Nikole Hannah-Jones After more than three years of clashing with the federal government, Westchester County may finally have to pay a price for its failures to comply with a residential...
View ArticleMore Than a Matter of Opinion: Ed Rendell’s Plea for Fracking Fails to...
by Justin Elliott Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell took to the New York Daily News op-ed page Wednesday with a message to local officials: stop worrying and learn to love fracking. As New York Gov....
View ArticleCourse Load: The Growing Burden of College Fees
by Marian Wang At the University of California Santa Cruz, where tuition runs to nearly $35,000 for non-residents, students every year pay more than 30 additional fees — including a small charge for...
View ArticleAmerica’s Most Outrageous Teacher Cheating Scandals
by Lois Beckett Update: This story has been updated to reflect recent developments in the Atlanta cheating scandal. It has also been corrected. Scandals involving cheating by teachers and schools to...
View ArticlePodcast: Is Intuit Making It Harder to Do Your Taxes?
by Minhee Cho Last year, roughly 25 million Americans used Intuit's best-selling software, TurboTax, to file their federal tax returns, accounting for 35 percent of the company's $4.2 billion in...
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Discussion: How to Improve Accountability in Medicine?
by Blair Hickman In 1999, the Institute of Medicine released a report suggesting a strategy to combat death due to preventable medical errors and set a goal of cutting preventable errors in half over...
View ArticleA MuckReads Guide to North Korea
As tensions simmer over North Korea’s latest nuclear threats, we take a look at some of the best reading on Kim Jong Un, the prospects for a nuclear conflict and life in the DPRK. What did we miss?...
View ArticleWho Polices Prosecutors Who Abuse Their Authority? Usually Nobody
by Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, and Sergio Hernandez, Special to ProPublica .janesville-chart { font-size:10px; font-family:Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom:0; width:250px !important; }...
View ArticleCan a Judge Really Block the SEC’s Settlement With Steven Cohen?
by Theodoric Meyer Judge Victor Marrero last week became the latest federal judge to question a time-honored tactic of federal regulators: negotiating settlements in which companies pay millions of...
View ArticleTerror Group Recruits From Pakistan’s ‘Best and Brightest’
by Sebastian Rotella Imagine a terrorist group that recruits tens of thousands of young men from the same neighborhoods and social networks as the Pakistani military. A group whose well-educated...
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Discussion: Who Prosecutes the Prosecutors?
by Christie Thompson Yesterday we published our investigation into New York's flawed system of attorney oversight, which routinely failed to identify, punish and deter prosecutors who abuse their...
View ArticleLasting Damage: A Rogue Prosecutor’s Final Case
by Joaquin Sapien This is Part 2 of a series. Read Part 1. Among the thousands of prosecutors who have tried cases in the name of the people of New York City, Claude Stuart came to hold a handful of...
View ArticleHearts, Minds and Dollars: Condolence Payments in the Drone Strike Age
by Cora Currier The U.S. drone war remains cloaked in secrecy, and as a result, questions swirl around it. Who exactly can be targeted? When can a U.S. citizen be killed? Another, perhaps less...
View ArticleCapitol Offenses: Bribes, Wires, and Little Surprise
by Joe Sexton Here at ProPublica, we’re great believers in the idea that public revelation of scandal leads to reforms. Over the years, we’ve seen plenty of evidence that sunshine is a disinfectant,...
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How Is Congress Voting on Gun Control? Help Us #TrackTheVote
by Amanda Zamora and Lena Groeger The Senate is weighing the first major legislation aimed at curbing gun violence since the Newtown shootings, but despite months of negotiations the fate of that bill...
View ArticleAnother Layer to Rendell’s Fracking Connections
by Justin Elliott Recently, we wrote about former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell's connections to the natural gas industry after he published a pro-fracking op-ed in The New York Daily News. Following...
View ArticleVoter Information Wars: Will the GOP Team Up With Wal-Mart’s Data Specialist?
by Lois Beckett The Republicans have admitted it: They need to get serious about collecting and analyzing voter data. Well, you can't get much more serious than talking to Teradata, the "data...
View ArticlePodcast: When Prosecutors Mishandle Cases, Everyone Pays…Except For Them
by Minhee Cho Last week, ProPublica's Joaquin Sapien detailed how New York City prosecutors had committed harmful misconduct in more than two dozen cases — sometimes putting the innocent behind bars...
View ArticleA Simple Fix: Should New York Compel Judges to Report Problem Prosecutors?
by Stephen Engelberg This op-ed was co-published with the New York Daily News. Shih-Wei Su was jailed for 12 years on attempted murder charges before a federal appeals court overturned his conviction,...
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