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Classified in Gitmo Trials: Detainees’ Every Word
by Cora Currier Can the government declare anything a Guantanamo detainee does or says automatically classified? That’s the question posed by two challenges to a government order declaring “any and...
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Obama Administration Wants Review of Prisoner’s Commutation Request
by Dafna Linzer This post was co-published with The Washington Post. The Obama administration has asked for a fresh review of an Alabama federal inmate's commutation request and directed the Justice...
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The Magnetar Fallout: Who’s Been Charged, Has Settled, or is Now Being...
by Cora Currier July 19: This post has been updated. It was originally published on May 17. The hedge fund Magnetar helped create billions of dollars' worth of risky deals called collateralized debt...
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Education Department Revamps Broken Disability Review Program
by Sasha Chavkin, Special to ProPublica The Education Department proposed new rules on Tuesday to revamp its troubled program for forgiving the federal student loans of borrowers who become disabled....
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Why Can’t Medicine Seem to Fix Simple Mistakes?
by Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein and Marshall Allen, ProPublica NYU's Langone Medical Center announced this week that it was adopting new procedures after the death of a 12-year old boy from septic...
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HSBC’s Money Laundering Lapses, By the Numbers
by Cora Currier This week a Senate investigation detailed that HSBC had lax controls against money-laundering and often ignored warnings about clients with ties to drug cartels and terrorists. The...
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Banks’ Lending Frenzy Left Borrowers Buried in Student Debt, Report Details
by Marian Wang .DC-note-container {margin-bottom: 12px;} Much like the mortgage market, the market for private student loans has gone through a big boom and a messy bust. Some banks and lenders played...
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Graphic: Who are the Super PACs’ Biggest Donors?
by Al Shaw An interactive chart showing the share of all contributions given by the top ten donors to each of the 12 largest super PACs.
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws
by Suevon Lee July 24: This post has been updated and corrected. Voter IDs laws have become a political flashpoint in what's gearing up to be another close election year. Supporters say the laws —...
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The Best Reporting on Guns in America
by Blair Hickman , Suevon Lee and Cora Currier In the wake of last week's shooting in Aurora, Colo., we've taken a step back and laid out the best pieces we could find about guns. They're roughly...
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After Katrina, New Orleans Cops Were Told They Could Shoot Looters
by Sabrina Shankman, Tom Jennings, Brendan McCarthy, Laura Maggi and A.C. Thompson Updated July 24: The New Orleans Police Department and the Department of Justice have reached an agreement for...
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Dark Money Political Groups Target Voters Based on Their Internet Habits
by Lois Beckett Lauren Berns was browsing Talking Points Memo when he saw an ad with President Obama’s face. “Stop the Reckless Spending,” the ad read, and in smaller print, Paid for by Crossroads...
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Key Senate Staffer on Military Issues Got Big Payout From Lockheed Martin
by Justin Elliott Lockheed Martin has big business in Washington, with Defense Department contracts representing more than half of the company's $46.5 billion in net sales last year. And now, Lockheed...
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New Questions About Sheldon Adelson’s Casino Operations in Macau
by Matt Isaacs, Lowell Bergman and Stephen Engelberg Note: This story is not subject to our Creative Commons license. This story was co-published with PBS' "Frontline." A few days after Las Vegas Sands...
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In Honor of the Olympics, the Best Investigative Reporting on Sports
by Cora Currier and Suevon Lee The 30th Summer Olympics officially opened today in London. In honor of the Games, we’ve rounded up some great sports muckreads, from college sports to racetracks. Got...
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Help Us Find Out How Politicians Are Targeting You Online
by Lois Beckett Politicians are using sophisticated targeting tactics to send tailored online ads to different voters. As we've been reporting, these ads are hard to track, and campaigns usually...
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Before Deadly Bulgaria Bombing, Tracks of a Resurgent Iran-Hezbollah Threat
by Sebastian Rotella This story was co-published with Foreign Policy. After a decade in which al Qaeda dominated the world stage, the global terror threat from Iran has escalated sharply, generating a...
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MuckReads Podcast: Examining Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
by Minhee Cho For this week's MuckReads podcast, ProPublica managing editor Stephen Engelberg spoke with the Boston Globe's Michael Kranish and Beth Healy about their series of stories probing...
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