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Three Things Obama’s New Clemency Initiative Doesn’t Do
by Kara BrandeiskyToday, the Department of Justice outlined expanded criteria that could allow prisoners convicted of non-violent crimes to win early release from prison. Under the new initiative, the...
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Judge Tosses Retaliation Lawsuit by Fired N.Y. Fed Examiner
by Jake BernsteinA federal judge dismissed the claims of a former bank examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who says she was fired for refusing to change her finding that Goldman Sachs...
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What Happens When a Dark Money Group Blows Off IRS Rules? Nothing.
by Kim Barker and Theodoric MeyerTo see how easy it is for a dark money group to ignore the Internal Revenue Service, look no further than the loftily named Government Integrity Fund.The Fund, an Ohio...
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Podcast: Dysfunction and Accountability in Health Care
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }This week, ProPublica reporter Charles Ornstein talks with David Goldhill, president and CEO of the game-show television network GSN, whose book...
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Liberal Outside Money Groups Spend Big in North Carolina
by Theodoric Meyer and Kim BarkerMost people have come to associate outside money — the hundreds of millions of dollars from politically active nonprofits and super PACs pouring into American...
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The Rise of Corporate Impunity
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Discussion: Why Are Big Companies Rarely Ever Punished?
by Blair HickmanToday, we co-published a story with the New York Times Magazine on the rise of corporate impunity. In sum: a series of missteps by the Department of Justice has left the agency...
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Dark Money Group Sues IRS Over Targeting, Disclosure
by Kim BarkerA conservative nonprofit sued the Internal Revenue Service Monday because the agency targeted it for extra scrutiny and disclosed the group's application for tax-exempt status to...
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Senate to Take Up Longshot Amendment to Regulate Campaign Finance
by Theodoric MeyerIn a gesture probably more symbolic than practical, the Senate may soon take up a constitutional amendment to give Congress and states the power to regulate political contributions...
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In Turnabout, N.Y. Moves to Shut Troubled Rehab Clinic
by Jake BernsteinWhen ProPublica first wrote about the Brooklyn drug rehab program New York Service Network (NYSN) last September, the outpatient facility only six months earlier had won a fresh...
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Lack of Order: The Erosion of a Once-Great Force for Integration
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Big Banks, Business and Butter: Highlights From Our Q&A on Corporate...
by Blair HickmanOn the heels of our story this week with the New York Times Magazine on the rise of corporate impunity, reporter Jesse Eisinger took to Reddit to answer readers’ questions on...
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Secret To Success: a Derby Win and Racing’s Doping Addiction
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Cheat Sheet: The Tyson Gay File
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After Pledge of Sunlight, Gov. Cuomo Officials Keep Their Email in the Shadows
by Justin ElliottAdopting a tactic that has been used by officials ranging from Sarah Palin to staffers of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, aides to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are sending emails from...
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Podcast: Resegregation, 60 Years Later
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }In the years following Brown v. Board of Education, the small town of Tuscaloosa, Ala., had quickly become a model example of school integration and reaped...
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Privacy Tools: Encrypt What You Can
by Julia AngwinIn the course of writing my book, Dragnet Nation, I tried various strategies to protect my privacy. In this series of book excerpts and adaptations, I distill the lessons from my...
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School Segregation After Brown
by Jeff Larson , Nikole Hannah-Jones and Mike TigasHundreds of school districts were placed under court order to desegregate following the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Many...
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Death Penalty Report Cites Value of Taping Interrogations
by Joaquin SapienThe crime was brutal: Rebecca Lynn Williams, a 19-year-old mother of three, was raped and later stabbed 38 times, left dead in her home in rural Virginia in June 1982.Justice was...
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Weak Sanction for Sprinter Gay Signals Change in Anti-Doping Tactics
by David EpsteinThis story was co-published with Sports IllustratedLast week, when the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced that sprinter Tyson Gay would be banned for just one year for failing a series...
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