Fanny Pack Mixup Unravels Massive Medicare Fraud Scheme
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View ArticlePentagon Report Finds Litany of Problems with Effort to Recover MIAs
by Megan McCloskey The Defense Department's inspector general has drafted a stinging rebuke of the Pentagon's struggling effort to recover the remains of missing service members from past wars,...
View ArticleMuslim-Americans Caught in NSA Web, Slashed Tesoro Fines and Fake Spinal...
by Amanda ZamoraWho else has NSA been spying on? Several prominent Muslim-Americans, including a longtime GOP operative who served in the Department of Homeland Security under George W. Bush,...
View ArticleGhosts of Greenwood: Audio
by Nikole Hannah-JonesProPublicaRead articleView photosShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonate“My dad would always say, ‘I’m a man. How old do I have to be to be a man?’”On the page, the words...
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 ArticleWhy Are Obstetricians Among the Top Billers for Group Psychotherapy in Illinois?
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View ArticleHave You Ever Been Sued Over a Debt? Help ProPublica Investigate Collection...
by Paul KielOver the last 15 years, the way consumer debt is pursued has undergone an aggressive transformation. Debt collectors are chasing far more consumers than 10 years ago – currently more than...
View ArticlePodcast: Dispatches from Freedom Summer
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }For the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, ProPublica's Nikole Hannah-Jones visited her father's hometown of Greenwood, Miss. for the first time –...
View ArticleIn Desegregation Case, Judge Blasts School Officials and Justice Department
by Nikole Hannah-JonesA federal judge in Alabama has taken the rare step of ruling against a local school board in a desegregation case, rejecting the board's claims that it had done all it could to...
View ArticleWho Advised Cuomo on Mortgage Industry Investigation? A Mortgage Lobbyist.
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View ArticleWe’re Still Not Tracking Patient Harm
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View ArticleCalifornia Halts Injection of Fracking Waste, Warning it May Be Contaminating...
by Abrahm LustgartenCalifornia officials have ordered an emergency shut-down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought-wracked Central Valley out...
View ArticleSex Assault on Campus, Prisoner Abuse at Rikers and Dark Money Rising...
by Amanda Zamora“It wasn’t me, it was her,” the teammate replied. - Hobart and William Smith College’s handling of a young woman’s rape complaint offers a window into the adjudication of sexual...
View ArticleError: You Have No Payments from Pharma
by Charles OrnsteinThe federal government has a word for physicians who don’t have financial relationships with pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers: “Error.”Last week, the government began...
View ArticleMeet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block
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View ArticlePodcast: Glaser, Cuomo, and the Refusals That Made the Story
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; }Justin Elliott (@JustinElliott) was doing his poking around a year ago when he uncovered a story he hadn’t even known existed, he tells...
View ArticleNew York State of Fracking: A ProPublica Explainer
by Naveena SadasivamNew York is one of a handful of states around the country that currently has at least temporarily halted fracking. Since 2008, when the state was first confronted with interest in...
View ArticleA Brutal Loss, but an Enduring Conviction
by Nikole Hannah-JonesProPublicaShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateMatthew Williams, special to ProPublicaDispatches from Freedom SummerA Brutal Loss, but an Enduring ConvictionRita Bender,...
View ArticleWhat We Learned Investigating Unpaid Internships
by Blair HickmanAfter a year scrutinizing the intern economy, ProPublica’s internship investigation is coming to an end. But before signing off, we wanted to do our own end-of-semester review.WHAT...
View ArticleEven After Open Enrollment, Activity Remains Unexpectedly High on Federal...
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with NPR's "Shots" blog.For months, journalists and politicians fixated on the number of people signing up for health insurance through the federal...
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