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Campaign Email Overload? We’ve Got a Website for That
by Jeff Larson This election season we've been collecting campaign emails for our Message Machine project. While we're trying to reverse engineer how these emails are targeted at voters, we also find...
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How an Obscure Federal Rule Could Be Shaking Up Presidential Politics
by Jake Bernstein Aug. 28: This post has been corrected. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's allies seemed to give a big old raspberry to presidential aspirant Mitt Romney on the front page of the New...
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Mitt Romney’s Tax Mysteries: A Reading Guide
by Cora Currier Last week, the website Gawker published more than 900 pages of documents from Bain Capital, the private equity firm Mitt Romney founded, and headed from 1984 until 1999. The document...
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Death Takes a Policy: We Answer Questions From Readers
by Jake Bernstein Readers reacted strongly — and thoughtfully — to our story about how a Rhode Island man recruited terminally ill people so he could cash in on lucrative annuity contracts offered by...
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When Is It Acceptable to Profit From Death? Readers Weigh In
by Amanda Zamora Update, Aug. 29: Jake Bernstein has rounded up answers to some of your questions on the Caramadre story here. Couples and families spend money in the aftermath of the death of a loved...
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Nursing Home Inspect Update: More Homes, More Violations
by Charles Ornstein Today, we are refreshing our Nursing Home Inspect app to include thousands more deficiencies found by government inspectors in nursing homes around the country. Our tool, based on...
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Voting Rights Act: The State of Section 5
by Suevon Lee Aug. 30: This post has been updated. A single provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been playing a key role on the election front this year. Section 5 has blocked photo voter-ID...
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Happy Labor Day. Here’s the Best Reporting on Worker Safety
by Amanda Zamora, Blair Hickman and Cora Currier, ProPublica In honor of Labor Day weekend, we've compiled 12 pieces of great reporting on workplace safety: from slaughterhouse diseases to lax...
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Watergate Journalist Carl Bernstein Spoke at Event Supporting Iranian...
by Justin Elliott .bernstein {width: 630px !important;} On a Saturday afternoon last February, journalist Carl Bernstein got up on stage at the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan and...
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U.S. Government Pressures Pakistan on Mumbai Terror Group
by Sebastian Rotella The Obama administration's decision to designate the leadership of Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba group as terrorists this week sends a pointed, if largely symbolic, message to a...
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Five Ways Courts Say Texas Discriminated Against Black and Latino Voters
by Lois Beckett and Suevon Lee How does Texas discriminate against minority voters? Federal judges counted the ways. Last Tuesday, a panel of federal court judges ruled that new district maps drawn by...
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The Bailout: By The Actual Numbers
by Paul Kiel Quick, how many billions in the red are taxpayers on the bailout of GM? AIG? Fannie and Freddie? Is it true that the government has reaped a profit from bailing out the banks? It should...
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Help Us Hold Them Accountable
by Paul Steiger Well, we've all now come through two weeks of bombardment by political rhetoric, first from one side and then from the other — with the prospect of much more to come over the next two...
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Revealed: The Dark Money Group Attacking Sen. Sherrod Brown
by Justin Elliott In May, a previously unknown group started pouring money into Ohio’s U.S. Senate race, considered one of the most important in the country and currently the nation’s most expensive....
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Your Bailout Questions Answered: A Reddit Chat with Paul Kiel
by Amanda Zamora The bailout has become a prominent talking point during the Democratic National Convention this week, with former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland praising President Obama for having “saved...
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Finders Weepers: Early Bain Disputes Cast New Light on Its Business
by Jesse Eisinger It was one of the "quickest big hits in Wall Street history," as the Wall Street Journal put it at the time. In 1996, an investment group including Bain Capital, the firm then run by...
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New Details Emerge About Dark Money Group in Ohio U.S. Senate Race
by Justin Elliott New details have emerged about the Government Integrity Fund, a non-profit dark money group that has spent over $1 million on pro-GOP ads in the U.S. Senate race in Ohio. As...
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Foreclosure Fail: Study Pins Blame on Big Banks
by Paul Kiel Over the past several years, we've reported extensively on the big banks' foreclosure failings. As a result of banks' disorganization and understaffing — particularly at the peak of the...
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What’s Happening in Libya: A Guide to the Best Coverage
Here’s the best reporting we’ve found not only on yesterday’s killings but also on post-war Libya. What are we missing? Please leave your favorite stories in comments. THE ATTACK: ITS ORIGINS AND...
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How the Gov’t Talks About a Drone Program it Won’t Acknowledge Exists
by Cora Currier Related Interactive: Stacking Up the Administration's Drone Claims Drones have become the go-to weapon of the U.S.’s counter-terrorism strategy, with strikes in Yemen in particular...
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