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White House Closes Inquiry Into Afghan Massacre – and Will Release No Details
by Cora CurrierSoon after taking office, President Obama pledged to open a new inquiry into the deaths of perhaps thousands of Taliban prisoners of war at the hands of U.S.-allied Afghan fighters in...
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“Close the Back Door”
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The Payday Playbook: How High Cost Lenders Fight to Stay Legal
by Paul Kiel .article-full h2 { margin-top: 20px; }A version of this story was co-published with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.As the Rev. Susan McCann stood outside a public library in Springfield,...
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Nation Institute to Pay Interns Minimum Wage
by Blair HickmanThis story has been updated. Starting in the fall of 2013, interns at the Nation Institute will be paid minimum wage for the first time in the history of the 30-year-old program — a...
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Law to Clean Up ‘Nuisances’ Costs Innocent People Their Homes
by Isaiah Thompson, Special to ProPublica When Rochelle Bing bought her modest row home on a tattered block in North Philadelphia 10 years ago, she saw it as an investment in the future for her...
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FAQ: What You Need to Know About the NSA’s Surveillance Programs
by Jonathan Stray, Special to ProPublicaThis story was originally published on June 27, 2013.There have been a lot of news stories about NSA surveillance programs following the leaks of secret...
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Whack-a-Mole: How Payday Lenders Bounce Back When States Crack Down
by Paul KielA version of this story was co-published with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.In 2008, payday lenders suffered a major defeat when the Ohio legislature banned high-cost loans. That same year,...
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How One State Succeeded in Restricting Payday Loans
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The Surveillance Reforms Obama Supported Before He Was President
by Kara BrandeiskyWhen the House of Representatives recently considered an amendment that would have dismantled the NSA’s bulk phone records collection program, the White House swiftly condemned the...
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SEC Reportedly Passes on Charging Magnetar
by Jake Bernstein The Securities and Exchange Commission appears to be concluding its investigation of Magnetar, a hedge fund that played a pivotal role in the disastrous mortgage bond market that...
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New Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites
by Theodoric MeyerA recently published study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fracking...
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How Unpaid Interns Aren’t Protected Against Sexual Harassment
by Blair Hickman and Christie ThompsonIn 1994, Bridget O’Connor began an internship at Rockland Psychiatric Center, where one of the doctors allegedly began to refer to her as Miss Sexual Harassment,...
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Does the U.S. Pay Families When Drones Kill Innocent Yemenis?
by Cora CurrierThere have been nine drone strikesreported in Yemen in the past two weeks – an uptick apparently connected to the Al Qaeda threat that shut down U.S. embassies across the Middle East...
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Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties
by Abrahm Lustgarten Don Feusner ran dairy cattle on his 370-acre slice of northern Pennsylvania until he could no longer turn a profit by farming. Then, at age 60, he sold all but a few Angus and...
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Meet Our Kickstarter Intern!
by Blair HickmanWe’re very pleased to announce that we have selected an intern to help us investigate the intern economy. Meet Casey McDermott! Casey is a recent graduate of Penn State University,...
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Podcast: What You Need to Know About Assisted Living
by Mike Webb Earlier this month, ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson and Jonathan Jones – in partnership with PBS Frontline - published a revealing expose on the assisted living industry and the largest...
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The Sweeping Presidential Power to Help Prisoners That Holder Didn’t Mention
by Cora CurrierThis week, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke out against the impacts of “draconian” sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. “Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too...
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New York Promised Help for Mentally Ill Inmates – But Still Sticks Many in...
by Christie ThompsonThis story was co-produced with WNYC. When Amir Hall entered New York state prison for a parole violation in November 2009, he came with a long list of psychological problems. Hall...
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Sandberg’s Lean In Called For an Unpaid Intern – And That’s Apparently Legal
by Blair HickmanAug. 16: This post has been corrected and updated.A top editor at Lean In, the nonprofit offshoot of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book about empowering women to achieve their goals,...
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