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Search Nursing Home Inspection Reports With Our New Interactive Tool
by Lena Groeger and Charles Ornstein We’ve made it easy to search nearly 118,000 deficiencies found during government inspections at 14,565 nursing homes nationwide.
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What We Found Using Nursing Home Inspect
by Charles Ornstein and Lena Groeger In February 2011, a nursing home resident in Michigan wandered away in a blizzard, unnoticed by staff. He was wearing only pajama pants, a sweater, canvas shoes...
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Tipsheet: How to Use Nursing Home Inspect
by Charles Ornstein We’ve designed Nursing Home Inspect to make it fast and easy to search thousands of recent government inspection reports from around the country, most since the beginning of 2011....
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How Politicians and the Press Overstated Military Budget Cuts by $100 Billion
by Justin Elliott Anxiety is rising in Washington about the big cuts to military spending slated to go into effect in January unless Congress takes action. Republicans, defense industry executives,...
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Paul Ryan Reading Guide: The Best Reporting on the VP Candidate
Editor's note: This post was first published Aug. 11, 2012. It was corrected Aug. 12 and updated with new material Aug. 15. Tweet #RyanReads We’ve had several days to get to know Rep. Paul Ryan on...
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Pennsylvania is Just the Latest Ruling Upholding Voter ID Law
by Suevon Lee On Wednesday, in a closely watched case, a state judge in Pennsylvania declined to block the state’s controversial voter ID law from taking effect. If the ruling is upheld on appeal,...
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws
by Suevon Lee Editor's note: This post, which was first published July 23, 2012, has been updated with new developments. Voter IDs laws have become a political flashpoint in what's gearing up to be...
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The Best Watchdog Journalism on Elderly Care
by Blair Hickman This week, we launched Nursing Home Inspect, an interactive tool that lets you search more than 20,000 inspection reports from nursing homes nationwide. Below is a sampling of the...
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How Nonprofits Spend Millions on Elections and Call it Public Welfare
by Kim Barker body.special-article-sidebar #content-header h1 {font-size:30px} Safeguard the public interest. Support ProPublica’s award-winning investigative journalism. DONATE NOW Watch Kim Barker...
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Political or Not? You Be the Judge
by Amanda Zamora Nonprofit groups that hold tax-exempt status in exchange for promoting social welfare are injecting millions of dollars into the presidential race. Unlike political action committees,...
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From Citizens United to Super PACs: A Campaign Finance Reading Guide
With the political conventions and the November election around the corner, we are taking a time-out to assess the state of campaign finance. As we reported last week, dark money nonprofits are...
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Ask Kim Barker Anything About Campaign Finance (a Reddit Chat)
by Amanda Zamora ProPublica reporter Kim Barker will be your guide to all things campaign finance this Thursday, Aug. 23, on Reddit from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Kim has been delving into the world of dark...
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Akin Controversy Stirs GOP: Where Do Republicans Stand on Abortion Exemption?
by Suevon Lee A Missouri congressman's startling remarks about "legitimate rape" and pregnancy have set off a torrent of criticism from his fellow Republicans as well as from Democrats. And the...
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No Tax Returns for You, Dark Money Groups Say
by Kim Barker It was mid-July and I had come to Hilltop Public Solutions because Jessie Bradley, a partner with the consulting firm, appeared to run two social-welfare nonprofits out of its...
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Podcast: Kim Barker on the Tactics Fueling Dark Money
by Minhee Cho Super PACs have been lauded as the ultimate game changers this election season, but ProPublica's Kim Barker points us to their often-ignored cousins, social welfare nonprofit groups,...
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Flood of Secret Campaign Cash: It’s Not All Citizens United
by Stephen Engelberg and Kim Barker The emergence of nonprofits as the leading conduit for anonymous spending in this year's presidential campaign is often attributed to the Supreme Court's 2010...
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Army Study Finds Troops Suffer Concussions in Training
by Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, and Daniel Zwerdling, NPR Aug. 24: This story has been corrected. This story was co-produced with NPR and is slated to air on All Things Considered. (Check local...
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Death Takes a Policy: How a Lawyer Exploited the Fine Print and Found Himself...
by Jake Bernstein Joseph Caramadre has spent a lifetime scouring the fine print. He's hardwired to seek the angle, an overlooked clause in a contract that allows him to transform a company's...
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Top 13 Questions From Our Q&A on Dark Money in the 2012 Campaign
by Blair Hickman Yesterday our reporter Kim Barker answered readers' questions on how outside money is influencing the 2012 election, in a rousing chat on Reddit. We combed through all 930 comments,...
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