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How Much of Your Data Would You Trade for a Free Cookie?
by Lois BeckettThis story was co-published with Mashable.In a highly unscientific but delicious experiment last weekend, 380 New Yorkers gave up sensitive personal information — from fingerprints to...
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Analysis: Government’s New Doctor Payments Website Worthy of a Recall
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with The New York Times' The Upshot.If the federal government's new Open Payments website were a consumer product, it would be returned to the...
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In Protecting the Elderly, California at Last Takes Steps to Catch Up
by A.C. ThompsonLast year ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE took a close look at the fast-growing assisted living business, which provides housing and day-to-day help to the elderly and those too ill or...
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How the Supreme Court Could Scuttle Critical Fair Housing Rule
by Nikole Hannah-JonesThis post, which has been updated with new information, was originally published Feb. 8, 2013.Update Oct. 2, 2014: The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will take up a...
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Head of Flawed Effort to ID Missing Soldiers Loses Job
by Megan McCloskey The longtime scientific director of the problem-ridden Pentagon agency charged with identifying the remains of service members missing from past wars is out of a job.At a recent...
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Victims Being Billed for Rape and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda Zamora"You never really think, 'Is rape covered by insurance?'" Eight days after a New Orleans woman was raped, she was billed $2,000 for her medical treatment (her insurance would pay...
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Medical Company May Be Falling Short of Its Patient-Safety Ideals
by Marshall Allen and Annie WaldmanThis story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog.When medical device entrepreneur Joe Kiani announced his commitment to eliminating medical mistakes, he did it with...
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Podcast: Your Privacy for a Sweet Treat
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } When a Brooklyn artist set up shop at a festival offering cookies in exchange for personal data, she expected a torrent of refusals to make her...
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$1.1 Billion in Drug, Device Payments to Doctors Not Included in New Federal...
by Charles OrnsteinThe federal government's new database of drug and device industry payments to doctors is even more incomplete than has been reported previously.In a fact sheet posted online,...
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Company That Sues Soldiers Pledges Reform, Changes Name
by Paul KielUSA Discounters has undergone a makeover.The Virginia-based retailer was the focus of a ProPublica investigation in July into its lending practices to service members. The company still...
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Dollars for Dudes: Almost No Women Among Medical Industry’s Top-Paid...
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with The New York Times' The Upshot.Few women are on the list of doctors paid the most money by drug and medical device companies last year, according to...
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Mysterious Campaign Appears to be the Latest Salvo in Battle Over Net Neutrality
by Robert FaturechiThis story has been updated to include a comment from the National Cable and Telecommunications Association.On a recent Monday evening, two bearded young men in skinny jeans came to...
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What Military Families Need to Know About High-Cost Lenders
by Hanqing ChenLast month, the Department of Defense proposed an amendment to the Military Lending Act that would ban lenders from charging service members interest rates of more than 36 percent. The...
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This Alabama Judge Has Figured Out How to Dismantle Roe v. Wade
by Nina MartinProPublicaView timelineShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateThis Alabama Judge Has Figured Out How to Dismantle Roe v. WadeHis writings fuel the biggest threat to abortion...
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The Personhood Movement
by Nina MartinProPublicaRead storyShare on FacebookShare on TwitterDonateThe Personhood MovementWhere it came from and where it stands today.1973U.S. Supreme Court decides Roe v. Wade, making abortion...
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Deadly Force, in Black and White
by Ryan Gabrielson , Ryann Grochowski Jones and Eric SagaraYoung black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts – 21 times greater i,...
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The DEA’s Facebook Impersonator and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda ZamoraThe DEA impersonated a woman on Facebook without her knowledge, and the Justice Department is OK with that. A federal agent created the fake profile, posting private photos seized from...
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Private Donors Supply Spy Gear to Cops
by Ali Winston and Darwin Bond Graham, Special to ProPublica, In 2007, as it pushed to build a state-of-the-art surveillance facility, the Los Angeles Police Department cast an acquisitive eye on...
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Podcast: The Racial Disparity in Fatal Police Shootings
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }In ProPublica's latest data analysis, Ryan Gabrielson and Ryann Grochowski Jones discovered a startling truth: black teens in recent years were about 21...
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In Wisconsin, Dark Money Got a Mining Company What It Wanted
by Theodoric MeyerThis story was co-published with The Daily Beast.When billionaire Chris Cline's company bought an option to mine a swath of northern Wisconsin in 2010, the company touted the...
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