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When Freedom Summer Landed in White America’s Living Rooms
ProPublicaShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateI Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great, Ben ShahnDispatches from Freedom SummerWhen Freedom Summer Landed in White America’s Living...
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Suspicious Prescriptions for HIV Drugs Abound in Medicare
by Charles OrnsteinMedicare spent more than $30 million in 2012 on questionable HIV medication costs, the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a report set for...
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Senators Push For Investigation of USA Discounters’ ‘Aggressive’ Tactics
by Paul KielFive U.S. senators have urged the Department of Defense and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to investigate allegations that "aggressive debt collection actions" are being used by...
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How Wall Street Tobacco Deals Left States With Billions in Toxic Debt
by Cezary PodkulThis story was co-published with Marketplace.In November 1998, attorneys general from across the country sealed a historic deal with the tobacco industry to pay for the health care...
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Tobacco Bonds May Be Dangerous to Your State’s Financial Health
by Cezary Podkul and Yue Qiu, ProPublicaAfter a bruising legal fight, tobacco companies agreed in 1998 to compensate 46 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories for the health-related...
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Leaked Docs Show Spyware Used to Snoop on U.S. Computers
by Jeff Larson and Mike TigasSoftware created by the controversial U.K. based Gamma Group International was used to spy on computers that appear to be located in the United States, the U.K., Germany,...
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Toxic Tobacco Bonds and More in Muckreads Weekly
by Amanda ZamoraThe 1998 tobacco settlement was supposed to net state and local governments billions for smoking prevention programs. But nine states have turned their settlement money into toxic time...
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Federal Investigators Crack Down on Two Virginia Schools’ Use of Restraints
by Heather VogellFederal investigators have faulted two Virginia schools for pinning down and isolating disabled students improperly, saying the schools used the practices routinely as a "one-size...
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Podcast: Move America Forward’s Ties to Political Consulting Firms, PACs
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }Meet Move America Forward, a 501(c)(3) that calls itself the nation's "largest grassroots pro-troop organization."The charity appeals to donors to help it...
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Illinois Suspends Medical License of Leading Prescriber of Antipsychotic Drugs
by Charles OrnsteinIllinois medical regulators have indefinitely suspended the medical license of psychiatrist Michael Reinstein, who prescribed more of the most powerful and riskiest antipsychotic...
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Why is the Cuomo Administration Automatically Deleting State Employees’ Emails?
by Theodoric MeyerThis story was co-published with the Albany Times-Union and WNYC.New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s administration — which the governor pledged would be the most transparent in state...
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Pro-Troop Charity Shoots Back
by Liz DaySince ProPublica published its investigation last week into the practices of the pro-troop charity Move America Forward, officials with the group have stepped forward to defend it.The...
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Report: Drillers Illegally Using Diesel Fuel to Frack
by Naveena Sadasivam A new report charges that several oil and gas companies have been illegally using diesel fuel in their hydraulic fracturing operations, and then doctoring records to hide...
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Q&A: What Can U.S. Health Care Learn from the Ebola Outbreak?
by Marshall AllenJeanine Thomas is a well-known patient advocate and active member of ProPublica's Patient Harm Facebook Community. But this week, she contributed in another forum: the World Health...
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USA Discounters Agrees to Refund $5 Charge Collected in What Feds Called A...
by Paul KielUSA Discounters, a retail company that caters to service members, has agreed to refund $350,000 collected as part of what federal regulators termed a "fee scam.''The company also agreed to...
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Red Cross Reverses Stance on Sandy Spending “Trade Secrets”
by Justin ElliottIn June we reported that the Red Cross was resisting our request that the New York attorney general's office release information provided by the group on how it spent money after...
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Six Days in Ferguson: Voices from the Protests
by Lois BeckettOn Saturday afternoon, a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, 18-year-old Michael Brown. The killing sparked immediate protests in Ferguson...
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The Militarization of U.S. Police Forces and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda ZamoraThe militarization of police in Ferguson, Mo., is part of a national trend. The war on terror has helped transform local police forces around the country, flooding them with tactical...
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Government Will Withhold One-Third of the Records from Database of Physician...
by Charles OrnsteinNext month, when the federal government releases data about payments to physicians from pharmaceutical and medical device makers, one-third of the records will be withheld because...
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Podcast: The Pitfalls of Drug Testing in Sports
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }Anti-doping technology has vastly improved over the years, particularly with advances like the biological passport, which monitors fluctuations in the...
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