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Interactive: Stacking Up the Administration’s Drone Claims
by Lena Groeger and Cora Currier How the government talks about a drone program it won’t acknowledge exists.
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Where the Candidates Stand on Medicare and Medicaid
by Suevon Lee Medicare and Medicaid, which provide medical coverage for seniors, the poor and the disabled, together make up nearly a quarter of all federal spending. With total Medicare spending...
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The Bush Administration’s Oft-Repeated (and Now Challenged) Waterboarding Claims
by Cora Currier For many years, Bush administration officials have said that the CIA waterboarded only three terror suspects. Despite nearly endless revelations and investigations about the U.S.'s...
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Why Patient Harm Is One of the Leading Causes of Death in America
by Marshall Allen Medical care has its own code and culture, which often does not put patients first, according to Dr. Marty Makary, a cancer surgeon and researcher at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine...
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How You Can Help ProPublica Investigate Health Care Quality
by Olga Pierce and Marshall Allen Too many patients suffer harm instead of healing in U.S. medicine. That’s why ProPublica’s reporters have investigated everything from deadly dialysis centersand...
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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 Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Lax Rules for Drillers that Inject Pollutants...
by Abrahm Lustgarten On a cold, overcast afternoon in January 2003, two tanker trucks backed up to an injection well site in a pasture outside Rosharon, Texas. There, under a steel shed, they began to...
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Now On Nursing Home Inspect: 140,000-Plus Inspection Reports
by Charles Ornstein Today, we are updating our Nursing Home Inspect tool to include another 9,570 government inspection reports on nursing homes nationwide, bringing the total to 144,172. We launched...
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Immigration Charges For Accused Commando In Dos Erres Massacre
by Sebastian Rotella A former Guatemalan Army lieutenant was extradited Friday from Canada to stand trial in Southern California on federal charges related to the massacre of 250 people in a...
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Freddie Mac Didn’t Set Out to Profit from Homeowners Trapped in High-Rate...
by Cora Currier Mortgage giant Freddie Mac did not keep homeowners trapped in high-interest loans in order to boost profits on billions of dollars’ worth of complex financial bets it had made. That’s...
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Free the Files: Help Us Reveal Dark Money in the Election
by Amanda Zamora Outside groups are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to influence the coming elections—money that has long been hard to track. This summer, the Federal Communications...
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Free the Files Frequently Asked Questions
by Amanda Zamora What is Free the Files? Free the Files is a new ProPublica news application tracking political ad filings from television stations in swing markets. Our goal is to increase...
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A Reading Guide to True the Vote, the Controversial Voter Fraud Watchdog
by Suevon Lee As Nov. 6 approaches, the efforts of True the Vote, a Texas anti-voter fraud group recently profiled by the New York Times, are gaining national attention. Despite scant evidence of...
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Dark Money Poured Into New Mexico Senate Contest
by Kim Barker and Justin Elliott Dark money groups flooded Albuquerque’s airwaves in August, aiming to sway a hotly contested U.S. Senate race by making more than half the political ad buys on top TV...
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Podcast: Free the Files, a ProPublica Project Unlocking Political Ad Spending
by Minhee Cho With less than 40 days until the election, ProPublica has rebooted its Free the Files project in an effort to uncover who’s behind the hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on...
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All the Missing Horses: What Happened to the Wild Horses Tom Davis Bought...
by Dave Philipps, Special to ProPublica #img-box { float: left; display: inline; width: 320px; font-size: 12px; } The Bureau of Land Management faced a crisis this spring. The agency protects and...
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What We Still Don’t Know About Mitt Romney’s Taxes
by Theodoric Meyer This article has been updated to include new reporting. It was first published on Oct. 1. Oct. 2: This article has been clarified. With the documents Mitt Romney released recently,...
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Congressman Who Compared Cigarettes to Smoking Lettuce Becomes Lobbyist for...
by Justin Elliott A former 18-year member of Congress who was a longtime friend of the tobacco industry while in office has become a paid consultant and registered lobbyist for tobacco giant Reynolds...
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Are High-Volume Dental Chains Exploiting Kids on Medicaid?
by Olga Pierce David Heath of the Center for Public Integrity recently investigated a new breed of corporate dental care chains that cater to low-income adults and children. Heath collaborated with...
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