No Warrant, No Problem: How the Government Can Get Your Digital Data
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View ArticleMichigan Charter Schools, Hospice Inc. and Repeat Flood Repairs (MuckReads...
by Amanda ZamoraHow is Michigan spending $1 billion in charter-school funds?The state’s patchwork oversight makes that a tough question to answer. A Detroit Free Press investigation found the majority...
View ArticlePop Quiz: Can You Name That NSA Program?
by Blair Hickman and Julia Angwin figure.main { display:none; }While charting the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, we found some programs with particularly perplexing names. Can you...
View ArticleFAQ For Our NSA Chart
by Julia AngwinWhat is this matrix?The graphic is an attempt to show what we've learned about the National Security Agency (and occasionally its British partner, GCHQ) surveillance during the past...
View ArticlePodcast: Mapping the NSA’s Spying
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }Trying to follow the news on National Security Agency surveillance — much less report on it — Julia Angwin (@JuliaAngwin) found herself...
View ArticleThe NSA Revelations All in One Chart
By Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica, illustrations by Alberto Cairo, special to ProPublicaWe plotted the NSA programs, showing which ones fall squarely into the agency’s stated mission of...
View ArticlePentagon Finally Decides to Dig Up Remains of Long Lost Soldier
by Megan McCloskey After years of refusing to act, the U.S. military has reversed course and has decided to disinter the possible grave of Arthur "Bud" Kelder, a POW from World War II who is buried...
View ArticleAggressive Tactic on the Fracking Front
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View ArticlePrivacy Tools: How to Block Online Tracking
by Hanqing ChenMany sites (including ProPublica) track user behavior using a variety of invisible third-party software. This means any time you visit a web page, you're likely sharing data about your...
View ArticleA Disappearing Planet
by Anna Flagg, Special to ProPublicaToday’s extinction rates rival those during the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
View ArticleThe Cost of Texas’ ‘Miracle’ Economy, Gag Orders and EPA Interference...
by Amanda Zamora‘They throw these workers away like tissue paper’ - In a four-part series, the Texas Tribune investigates the cost of the “miracle” economy that Gov. Rick Perry and other state leaders...
View ArticleDispatches From Freedom Summer
div#google_image_div, div.white-list-top, div.list-content, aside.module-2013-follow, aside.module-tabbed-2011 { display:none; }Fifty years ago this summer, hundreds of black and white volunteers...
View ArticleSugar Plant Removed Safety Device 13 Days before Temp Worker’s Death
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View ArticlePodcast: What Design Can Do for Investigative Journalism
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }Shortly after ProPublica hired David Sleight as our first design director in April, some readers couldn't help but wonder: What exactly does a design...
View ArticleGhosts of Greenwood
by Nikole Hannah-JonesProPublicaView photosShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateEdmund Fountain, special to ProPublicaDispatches from Freedom SummerGhosts of GreenwoodA reporter goes to...
View ArticleGhosts of Greenwood: Photos
by Nikole Hannah-JonesProPublicaRead articleShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateMississippi State Senator David Jordan photographed in Greenwood City Hall on June 18, 2014. (Edmund Fountain,...
View ArticleHere’s One Way to Land on the NSA’s Watch List
by Julia Angwin and Mike TigasLast week, German journalists revealed that the National Security Agency has a program to collect information about people who use privacy-protecting services, including...
View ArticleNew York State to Pay Millions in Wrongful Conviction Case
by Joaquin SapienNineteen years ago, a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge sentenced Jabbar Collins to a prison term of 34-years-to-life for the murder of Abraham Pollack, a Brooklyn rabbi shot dead in the...
View ArticleU.S. Taxpayers Are Subsidizing Defense of Alleged Killers of Palestinian Teen
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View ArticleSenator Asks OSHA About Temp Worker Buried Alive In Sugar
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