Long After Sandy, Red Cross Post-Storm Spending Still a Black Box
by Justin Elliott and Jesse EisingerFollowing Superstorm Sandy, donors gave $312 million to the American Red Cross. How did the aid organization spend that money?A year and a half after the storm,...
View ArticleShake-Up Inside Forensic Credentialing Org
by Leah Bartos, Special to ProPublicaThis story was co-published with FrontlineThere's been a major shake-up in one of the largest organizations that certifies forensic experts.The group, the American...
View ArticleTurboTax Maker Linked to ‘Grassroots’ Campaign Against Free, Simple Tax Filing
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View ArticlePodcast: The (Tax) Industry Behind the Outrage
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }A few months back, ProPublica's director of research, Liz Day, started to notice similar language in op-eds and letters opposing return-free tax...
View ArticleHave You Interned in Arts or Entertainment? Rate Your Internship
by Blair HickmanThis is the first in a series of in-depth explorations into what it’s like to intern for college credit in different industries. Sign up for our Reporting Network for updates.Our...
View ArticleThe U.S. Government: Paying to Undermine Internet Security, Not to Fix It
by Julia AngwinThe Heartbleed computer security bug is many things: a catastrophictech failure, an open invitation to criminal hackers and yet another reason to upgrade our passwords on dozens of...
View ArticleTimeline: From Brown v. Board to Segregation Now
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View ArticleEven After Doctors Are Sanctioned or Arrested, Medicare Keeps Paying
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with NPRIn August 2011, federal agents swept across the Detroit area, arresting doctors, pharmacists and other health professionals accused of running a...
View ArticleBig Revamp of Pentagon’s Troubled Mission to Find Missing Soldiers Looks a...
by Megan McCloskey With Congressional pressure and media scrutiny intensifying, the defense secretary came out with a bold plan to fix the Pentagon's struggling mission to recover remains of missing...
View ArticleA Note to Our Readers on ‘Segregation Now’
Dear Readers,In 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren, in his landmark Brown v. Board of Education opinion that sought to outlaw segregation in America’s schools, wrote, “Education is perhaps the most...
View ArticleSegregation Now: The Resegregation of America’s Schools
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View ArticleSegregation Now
by Nikole Hannah-JonesThis story is not subject to our Creative Commons license.Though James Dent could watch Central High School’s homecoming parade from the porch of his faded-white bungalow, it had...
View ArticleShare Your Six Words on Race and Education in America
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View ArticleWeibo IPO Reveals a Company Struggling With Censorship
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View ArticlePodcast: How Good Is Your Password?
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }If you have so much as an email address, you’ve probably spent a good chunk of your time changing passwords in the wake of the Heartbleed...
View ArticleRepublicans Say No to CDC Gun Violence Research
by Lois BeckettAfter the Sandy Hook school shooting, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) was one of a few congressional Republicans who expressed a willingness to reconsider the need for gun control laws."Put...
View ArticleMeet the Doctor Who Gave $1 Million of His Own Money to Keep His Gun Research...
by Lois BeckettFederal funding for research on gun violence has been restricted for nearly two decades. President Obama urged Congress to allocate $10 million for new research after the Newtown school...
View ArticleMIA In The War On Cancer: Where Are The Low-Cost Treatments?
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