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Hacked Sony Emails Reveal Behind-the-Scenes Political Dealings in L.A.
by Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, and Jack Dolan, the Los Angeles Times, A version of this story was co-published with the Los Angeles Times.Emails stolen by hackers from Sony Pictures Entertainment...
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Congress to Consider Scaling Down Group Homes for Troubled Children
by Joaquin Sapien When 17-year-old Lexie Grüber first entered the Allison Gill Lodge group home for girls in Manchester, Connecticut, she said it felt less like a home than a business. Instead of...
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Cruise Control
by Lena Groeger Your one-stop shop for health and safety data on cruise ships
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Boondoggle HQ
by Megan McCloskey and Vince Dixon The $25 Million Building in Afghanistan Nobody Needed
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‘Kiss Everybody’: Parents’ Voicemails Preserve Their Memory in Death
by Charles Ornstein Tune into All Things Considered on Monday, May 25, to hear a segment based on this story. The voicemail message was like so many others from my mom. “Hi, it’s mom,” she began, then...
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How Illinois’ Pension Debt Blew Up Chicago’s Credit
by Allan Sloan, The Washington Post, and Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, What happens when you’ve been kicking the fiscal can down the road for years, but the road suddenly hits a dead end? That’s what...
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Behind the Scenes of Your Mani-Pedi
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } A native New Yorker, Sarah Maslin Nir was a regular manicure customer – until her investigation for The New York Times revealed oppressive...
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Cuomo Reverses Email Purge Policy
by Justin Elliott The emails of New York officials will no longer be automatically deleted after 90 days, aides to Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last week in response to political pressure over the...
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Behavior of Military Lawyer in Boondoggle HQ Inquiry Under Scrutiny
by Megan McCloskey An investigation released last week into why the U.S. military built a $25-million headquarters in Afghanistan that it never used condemned the behavior of one officer in...
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How A California Gang Law Turns Spray Painting Into A Murder Charge And More...
by Terry Parris Jr. h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email?...
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Inside an HIV Epidemic
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; } More than 150 people in southeast Indiana have been diagnosed with HIV, the largest outbreak in state history. Even though the first reports trickled in to...
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Off Track: Former Team Members Accuse Famed Coach Alberto Salazar of Breaking...
by David Epstein Steve Magness watched the 2012 London Olympics 10,000-meters final from his couch in Houston. As soon as the runners crossed the line, his phone lit up with congratulatory texts....
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Europe’s Revolving-Door Prisons Compound Growing Terror Threat
by Sebastian Rotella This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. In the summer of 2011, three French ex-convicts met in Yemen to talk about unleashing death and terror on the streets of Paris....
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New Snowden Documents Reveal Secret Memos Expanding Spying
by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica, Charlie Savage, the New York Times, and Henrik Moltke, special to ProPublica, This story was co-published with the New York Times. Without public notice or...
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Violent Crimes Mar Effort at Less Restrictive Homes for Children
by Joaquin Sapien In 2013, New York City began an experiment in how to more safely and effectively deal with children with minor criminal records: house them in small group homes close to their own...
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Red Cross Failures, Track & Field Doping, NSA Spying and More in...
by Amanda Zamora h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.2em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } It's been quite the week at ProPublica, dear readers, where we published FOUR major...
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Meet the Reporter Behind That Bogus Chocolate Study
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } Johannes Bohannon, Ph.D., made headlines earlier this year with a "study" showing that chocolate helps people lose weight. Then, last month,...
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One Nation, Under Sedation: Medicare Paid for Nearly 40 Million Tranquilizer...
by Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones This story was co-published with the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald and Health News Florida. In 2012, Medicare’s massive prescription drug program didn’t...
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LIVE RED CROSS CHAT: What Happens When Millions Donated For Disaster Relief...
by Terry Parris Jr. Follow the discussion on Reddit LIVE here. The American Red Cross raised nearly half a billion dollars following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010 — far more than any...
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Left in the Brain: Potentially Toxic Residue from MRI Drugs
by Jeff Gerth With a family history of breast cancer, Marcie Jacobs decided in June 2001 that an MRI screening was her best preventive option. As is common with MRIs, Jacobs was injected beforehand...
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