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11 Key Reads on the Economy Ahead of Tonight’s Debate
by Cora Currier, Theodoric Meyer and Blair Hickman, ProPublica Oct. 3: This post has been corrected. With tonight's debate focusing on domestic policy, we've rounded up some of the best coverage of the...
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Dark Money Group Told IRS It Wouldn’t Be Political—Then Spent $1 Million on...
by Justin Elliott A dark money nonprofit group that has run more than $1 million in ads in the Ohio race for U.S. Senate told the IRS last year it did not plan to spend any money to influence...
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Gitmo Detainee’s Body Being Held in Secure, Undisclosed Location
by Cora Currier Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif had been at Guantanamo for nearly 11 years when he died last month, despite being recommended for release many times. But even in death, his travails aren't...
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No Income? No Problem! How the Gov’t Is Saddling Parents with College Loans...
By Marian Wang, ProPublica, Beckie Supiano and Andrea Fuller, The Chronicle of Higher Education This story was co-published with The Chronicle of Higher Education. More than a decade after Aurora...
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Podcast: David Simon, A.C. Thompson Talk About Fictionalizing a Real Life...
by Mike Webb On Sept. 18, David Simon and his Treme co-creater/executive producer Eric Overmyer joined our A.C. Thompson and New York University's Joe Pichirallo for a conversation about how they...
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Free the Files Volunteers Unlock $160 Million in Ad Buys in First Week
by Amanda Zamora In the seven days since we rebooted Free The Files, nearly 350 people have “freed” a political ad contract from the Federal Communications Commission database, unlocking more than...
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Who Should Ensure Families Only Take On College Debt They Can Afford?
by Blair Hickman You know that college students often graduate with massive amounts of debt. The lesser-told side of the story: overburdened parents. As ProPublica’s Marian Wang and The Chronicle of...
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Four Ways Ohio and Others Have Toughened Voting Rules
by Suevon Lee Voter ID laws have received plenty of attention recently, but they're not the only controversial changes to election rules this year. Some states have made changes that critics say could...
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F.A.Q. on U.S. Aid to Egypt: Where Does the Money Go—And Who Decides How It’s...
by Marian Wang and Theodoric Meyer This article has been updated to reflect new developments. It was first published on Jan. 31, 2011. The regime change in Egypt — and in particular, the riots outside...
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Free the Files Teams Up with Huffington Post to Unlock Political Ads in Swing...
by Amanda Zamora In our ever-expanding quest to Free the Files, ProPublica is teaming up with Huffington Post in Denver, Detroit, Miami and Washington, D.C. to unlock political spending in the final...
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Reporting Recipe: Four Stories You Can Write Using Free the Files
by Justin Elliott We’ve been writing a lot about the newly available TV station ad files that offer never-before-available details on political spending. And ProPublica readers around the country have...
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What a Failed Vegas Sex Pill and The Meningitis Outbreak Have In Common
by Marshall Allen Imagine my surprise when I heard about Vegas Mixx, the latest club drug being promoted in Las Vegas. Marketing materials described it as a combination of Valium, to relax the mind,...
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Still Classified: Terror Suspects’ Own Accounts of Their Abuse
by Cora Currier This post has been updated. It was originally published on Oct. 9, 2012. In a motion unsealed last week, the government proposed new ground rules for classified information in the...
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Inside the Janesville Data
by Amy Goldstein, Special to ProPublica, This story’s analysis of the effects of job-retraining in Janesville, Wis., is the first in the United States that has examined this question using data since...
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Rare Agreement: Obama, Romney, Ryan All Endorse Retraining for Jobless—But...
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Dealing With Student Debt: Join Our Google Plus Chat
by Blair Hickman Students aren’t the only ones graduating with massive debt – parents are increasingly overburdened, too. As ProPublica’s Marian Wang and The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Beckie...
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Is BofA’s Foreclosure Review Really Independent? You Be the Judge
by Paul Kiel Late last year, the country's bank regulators launched a massive program to evaluate millions of foreclosure cases and compensate homeowners who fell victim to the banks' flawed or...
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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 and Oct. 11. Tweet #RyanReads We’ve had several days to get to know Rep....
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Big Bird Debate: How Much Does Federal Funding Matter to Public Broadcasting?
by Suevon Lee Are Big Bird’s 15 minutes up yet? Last week, Mitt Romney pulled public broadcasting into the presidential campaign when he said he would “stop the subsidy” to PBS, despite his love for...
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MuckReads Podcast: Pawns in the War on Drugs
by Minhee Cho In the government's war on drugs, confidential informants are the foot soldiers — an inexpensive (and often unregulated) way to outsource the work of undercover cops. But when first-time...
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