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As Need for New Flood Maps Rises, Congress and Obama Cut Funding
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Help Us Hire an Intern For Our Internships Investigation
by Blair HickmanToday, we launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to hire an intern to help with our investigation into – wait for it – internships.Millions of current and former interns...
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Help Us Tell the Story of the Intern Economy
by Blair HickmanToday, we launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to hire an intern to help with our investigation into – wait for it – internships.Millions of current and former interns...
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Ex-Prosecutor Won’t be Watching ‘Brooklyn DA’
by Joe Sexton "Brooklyn DA," CBS's controversial behind-the-scenes series on the life and work of the borough's prosecutors, debuted Tuesday night. Over the course of the hour, an average of 4.9...
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Transcript: How Do Unpaid Internships Impact Industry?
by Blair HickmanEarlier this week, David Dennis, an alum of Northwestern’s graduate school of journalism, argued in the Guardian that unpaid internships have changed the news industry for the...
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Problem Witness: A Case to Make Prosecutors Personally Accountable
by Joe Sexton It wasn't much of a case: Queens prosecutors wanted to prosecute a woman for having falsely reported her car stolen in a bid to collect on theft insurance. A non-violent crime....
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Now, You Can’t Ban Guns at the Public Pool
by Lois BeckettIf you feel unsafe at a public pool in Charleston, W.Va., you may soon have the right to lie there on a towel with a handgun at your side.For 20 years, Charleston has been an island of...
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Podcast: What’s Up With the Banks?
by Mike Webb Last week, ProPublica's editor-in-chief Steve Engelberg sat down with senior reporter and "The Trade" columnist Jesse Eisinger to talk about what's wrong with banks being so big. The pair...
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Four Years Ago Obama Promised to Investigate Afghan Massacre. Has Anything...
by Cora CurrierIn his first year in office, President Barack Obama pledged to “collect the facts” on the death of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war at the hands of U.S.-allied...
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Five Ways Congress is Trying to Curb Rape in the Military
by Christie ThompsonWhen the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the U.S. military’s sexual assault crisis, lawmakers grilled Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine officials on the alarmingly...
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Rape and Other Sexual Violence Prevalent in Juvenile Justice System
by Joaquin Sapien Hundreds of teen-agers are raped or sexually assaulted during their stays in the country's juvenile detention facilities, and many of them are victimized repeatedly, according to a...
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No Warrant, No Problem: How the Government Can Get Your Digital Data
by Theodoric Meyer and Peter Maass
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The Best Stories on the Government’s Growing Surveillance
by Christie ThompsonOn Wednesday, the Guardian published documents revealing the government has been collecting months’ worth of telephone “metadata” on millions of Verizon customers. The Washington...
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Mass Surveillance in America: A Timeline of Loosening Laws and Practices
by Cora Currier , Justin Elliott and Theodoric MeyerThe evolution of the National Security Agency’s dragnet under Presidents Bush and Obama.
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The NSA Black Hole: 5 Basic Things We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s...
by Justin Elliott and Theodoric MeyerLast week saw revelations that the FBI and the National Security Agency have been collecting Americans’ phone records en masse and that the agencies have access to...
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Podcast: The Story Behind Investigating Internships
by Mike Webb Late last month, ProPublica launched a Kickstarter to cover the costs of hiring an intern to help with our internships investigation. Our intern will create a microsite on the intern...
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Worried about the Mass Surveillance? How to Practice Safer Communication
by Quinn Norton, Special to ProPublicaWith all the news coming out about possible mass surveillance and the relationship between an alphabet soup of federal agencies and the companies that hold huge...
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Betting Against the Future: How Industry Loses When Interns Go Unpaid
by Hanna TrudoPerhaps you’ve heard that ProPublica has launched an investigation into internships. If you’re not familiar with our latest project, here’s the gist: we want to document the emerging...
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Housing Crisis: Widespread Discrimination; Little Taste for Enforcement
by Nikole Hannah-Jones The results of Tuesday's U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development national study on the persistence of housing discrimination are unlikely to shock: Racial and ethnic...
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