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‘Act of Congress’ Stresses Hopeful Creation of Dodd-Frank, Omits Grim Ending
by Jesse EisingerThis was co-published with The Washington Post. President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank financial reform law in July 2010, hailing it as an overhaul to prevent the kind of crisis that...
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In Key Senate Job, Ex-Lockheed Exec Replaced by Ex-Lockheed Lobbyist
by Justin ElliottLast year, we told you about how former Lockheed Martin executive Ann Sauer had been hired to be the top Republican staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee.Sauer got $1.6...
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The 182 Percent Loan: How Installment Lenders Put Borrowers in a World of Hurt
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IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From...
by Kim Barker and Justin ElliottThe same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential...
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Discussion: What’s Going on at Gitmo?
by Christie ThompsonThe current hunger strike at Guantanamo has entered its fourth month, with resistance growing to involve 100 detainees. More medics have been flown in to assist with force-feeding...
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Discussion: Installment Loans and the Shifting Debt Industry
by Blair HickmanMonday, we co-published a story with Marketplace on installment loans, a growing industry that offers quick money to low-income borrowers – and is flying under regulators’...
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On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated by Debt
by Paul Kiel, ProPublica, and Mitchell Hartman, MarketplaceThis story was co-produced with Marketplace. Listen to their coverage. Seven years after Congress banned payday-loan companies from charging...
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The Most Important #Muckreads on Rape in the Military
by Christie ThompsonThe Pentagon announced this week that a sergeant working in the military’s sexual assault prevention office had been charged with — you guessed it — sexual assault. This news came...
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The Story Behind Our Hospital Interactive
by Tom DetzelHere at ProPublica, we love to find new ways to tell stories. We’ve built data-driven news apps, commissioned our own news songs and crafted narratives with a novelist’s touch, all to...
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Your Hospital May Be Hazardous To Your Health
As part of our ongoing investigation into patient safety, ProPublica reporters Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce produced this interactive story in collaboration with PBS Frontline and Ocupop during a May...
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How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional
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Congressmen to Hagel: Where Are the Missing War Records?
by Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublicaThe top Republican and Democrat on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs are demanding more information from defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about lost Army field...
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Podcast: ProPublica and the IRS Scandal
by Mike WebbUpdate: A transcript of this conversation was added to this post.Last week, ProPublica's Kim Barker and Justin Elliott explained how the IRS sent us tax-exempt applications for nonprofit...
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Sound, Fury and the IRS Mess
by Richard Tofel ProPublica’s job is to report the news rather than to make news ourselves, but sometimes we find an article of ours to be itself a subject of public debate. Last week was such a time,...
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A Prolonged Stay: The Reasons Behind the Slow Pace of Executions
by Raymond Bonner, Special to ProPublica States that impose the death penalty have been facing a crisis in recent years: They are short on the drugs used in executions. In California, which has the...
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Six Facts Lost in the IRS Scandal
by Kim Barker and Justin ElliottIn the furious fallout from the revelation that the IRS flagged applications from conservative nonprofits for extra review because of their political activity, some...
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A Prosecutor, a Wrongful Conviction and a Question of Justice
by Joaquin SapienMay 23: This story has been corrected. Edwin Oliva, a 29-year-old petty thief and drug addict, says he was a wreck as he sat in a chair in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office in...
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Discussion: Military Lending and Debt
by Blair HickmanIn honor of Memorial Day, ProPublica and Marketplace will host a live discussion on the issues facing military members in debt.The Military Lending Act of 2007 attempted to protect...
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