Senator Pushes for Investigation of ‘False Statements’ by Dark Money Groups
by Lois Beckett 4/10: This post has been updated with response from Whitehouse’s office. A Democratic senator is pushing for an investigation of nonprofit groups that told the Internal Revenue Service...
View ArticleFor Most Homeowners, Gov’t Foreclosure Deal Brings A Few Hundred Bucks
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View ArticleGitmo Defense Lawyers Say Somebody Has Been Accessing Their Emails
by Cora Currier The long-troubled military trials at Guantanamo Bay were hit by revelations earlier this year that a secret censor had the ability to cut off courtroom proceedings, and that there were...
View ArticleEverything We Know About What’s Happened Under Sequestration
by Theodoric Meyer When the annual White House Easter Egg Hunt faced cancellation this year due to the package of mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration, the National Park Service kicked into...
View ArticleAre California Prisons Punishing Inmates Based on Race?
by Christie Thompson In several men’s prisons across California, colored signs hang above cell doors: blue for black inmates, white for white, red, green or pink for Hispanic, yellow for everyone...
View ArticleNo Warrant, No Problem: How The Government Can Still Get Your Digital Data
by Theodoric Meyer and Peter Maass
View ArticleFDA Let Drugs Approved on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market
by Rob Garver and Charles Seife, Special to ProPublica On the morning of May 3, 2010, three agents of the Food and Drug Administration descended upon the Houston office of Cetero Research, a firm that...
View ArticleNo Substitute: When a Generic Drug Isn’t What it Seems
by Charles Seife and Rob Garver, Special to ProPublica Andrew Richards remembers that he had just sat down in front of the TV when the lightning bolt struck. "It was almost like it went through my ear...
View ArticleRepublicans and Dems Come Together — to Keep IRS From Competing with TurboTax
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View ArticlePodcast: What Should the FDA Do When Drug Tests Are Tainted?
by Mike Webb In an investigation published yesterday, Rob Garver and Charles Seife shared the story of how the Food and Drug Administration found a lab in Houston, Texas, that had provided the agency...
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Discussion: Covering the Frontlines of the Drone War
by Cora Currier The officially secret drone war, carried out in some of the world’s most dangerous regions, is extremely challenging to report on. Several thousand people have been killed in hundreds...
View ArticleDouble Dose: In Second Case of Flawed Drug Research, FDA Response Was Slow...
by Rob Garver and Charles Seife, Special to ProPublica This week, we reported that the Food and Drug Administration left medicines on the market for years after discovering they were approved based on...
View ArticleHunger Strikes and Indefinite Detention: A Rundown on What’s Going on at Gitmo
by Cora Currier It’s been 11 years since the first detainees were brought to Guantanamo Bay. But the future of the prison, and the fate of the men inside it, is far from certain. With 59 detainees at...
View ArticleWhere Congress Stands on Guns
by Lena Groeger Four months after the Newtown tragedy, the Senate resoundingly defeats gun control legislation. We break down how Senators voted on the bill.
View ArticleWhat Happened to the Gun Bill?
by Lena Groeger The Senate defeated several amendments to the proposed gun control bill, with only two amendments reaching the 60 votes necessary to pass. We break down how senators voted.
View ArticleA Reading Guide to What’s Going on in Boston
Boston is on lockdown as the hunt for suspects in Monday’s Boston marathon bombing is ongoing. Waking up to the news this morning was being thrown into a sea of breaking updates, emergency warnings,...
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Boston Bombing Suspects Echo Home-Grown Terrorists in Madrid, London Attacks
by Sebastian Rotella Updated Friday, April 19, 9:10 p.m. The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsaerov, the elder of the brothers suspected in the Boston bombings, in 2011, two U.S. law enforcement officials...
View ArticleFDA Approved New Drug Despite Ongoing Investigation of Lab Misconduct
by Charles Seife and Rob Garver, Special to ProPublica Last week, ProPublica reported that the Food and Drug Administration allowed dozens of medications to stay on the market, even though the...
View ArticleSix Claims on Detainee Torture, Skewered
by Christie Thompson Among the news that ended up being buried in the events last week: A nonpartisan think tank, the Constitution Project, released a scathing, 577-page report on the U.S.’s...
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The Admission Arms Race: Six Ways Colleges Game Their Numbers
by Marian WangAs college-bound students weigh their options, they often look to the various statistics that universities trumpet — things like the high number of applications, high test scores, and...
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