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How Philanthropist David Rubenstein Helped Save a Tax Break Billionaires Love
by Alec MacGillis ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Cameron Cottrill for ProPublica The Patriot: How Philanthropist David Rubenstein Helped Save a Tax Break Billionaires...
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Flint’s Water Crisis and the Unique Role of the Reporter Who Helped Uncover It
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} With the last Republican and Democratic debates both held in Michigan (Detroit and Flint,...
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Verizon to Pay $1.35 Million to Settle Zombie Cookie Privacy Charges
by Julia Angwin Verizon agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle Federal Communications Commission charges that it violated customers’ privacy when it used a hidden undeletable number to track cellphone...
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Senator Asks Privacy Regulators to Stop Abuse of Nursing Home Residents on...
by Charles Ornstein A U.S. senator has asked government regulators what, if anything, they’re doing to stop nursing home workers from taking degrading and dehumanizing photos of residents and posting...
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws
by Suevon Lee and Sarah Smith This post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on July 23, 2012. Voter ID laws are a contentious issue in the 2016 presidential election cycle. Many of the...
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‘We’re Sitting Ducks’
ProPublica Hell and High Water Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate ‘We’re Sitting Ducks’ Houston, home to millions of people and one of the largest shipping lanes in the world, is...
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Rent Limits Just a Fiction for Thousands of NYC Tenants, Records Disclose
by Cezary Podkul and Marcelo Rochabrun About 28 percent of New York City apartments subject to rent limits can easily get around them. It takes New York housing officials six to nine months to resolve...
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Trying (and Trying) to Get Records From the ‘Most Transparent Administration’...
by Justin Elliott This story was co-published with The Washington Post. Two years ago last month, I filed a public-records request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of my reporting...
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Researchers Call for More Study of Agent Orange Effects on Vets and Their Kids
by Mike Hixenbaugh, The Virginian-Pilot, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, This story was co-published with the Virginian-Pilot. More than two decades of studying Agent Orange exposure hasn’t produced...
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Billionaire Tax Breaks, A Military Rape Trial and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Adam Harris 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? Sign up...
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3 Things Mayor de Blasio and AG Schneiderman Didn’t Say About Housing...
by Marcelo Rochabrun On Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman proudly announced they plan to steer $5 million collected from a “crackdown” on landlords who...
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Inside the Immigration Abuses of America’s Little-Known Guest Worker System
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Every year, thousands of foreign workers come to the United States using H-2 visas, a...
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5 Things You Should Know About the FCC’s Proposed Privacy Rules
by Julia Angwin Last week, the Federal Communications Commission proposed new privacy rules for Internet providers. The proposal was immediately praised by privacy advocates as “a major step forward”...
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About Face: U.S. Military Seeks Historic Overhaul of Justice System
by T. Christian Miller WASHINGTON—After years of concern over sexual assault in the military, the Defense Department has proposed the most far-reaching reforms to its justice system in decades. The...
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Another Senator Calls for Action on Social Media Abuse of Nursing Home Residents
by Charles Ornstein The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is asking the U.S. Justice Department for information about how aggressively it pursues elder abuse in nursing homes, particularly...
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The Most Terrific Reporting on Trump
by Sarah Smith If elected president, Donald Trump has promised to “open up” libel laws so he can sue news organizations like they’ve “never got sued before.” While the First Amendment is still intact,...
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ProPublica Adds Teaching Hospitals to Dollars for Docs
by Charles Ornstein Related story: Now There’s Proof: Docs Who Get Company Cash Tend to Prescribe More Brand-Name Meds The largesse of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry extends well...
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Now There’s Proof: Docs Who Get Company Cash Tend to Prescribe More...
by Charles Ornstein, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Mike Tigas, ProPublica, This story was co-published with NPR, the Boston Globe and the Tampa Bay Times. Doctors have long disputed that the payments...
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How a For-Profit College Targeted the Homeless and Kids With Low Self-Esteem
by Annie Waldman Perhaps you remember Corinthian Colleges. It was the country’s second largest chain of for-profit colleges, before it collapsed into bankruptcy last year amid evidence of phony...
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Dollars for Docs, Lead in the Water, and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Adam Harris 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? Sign up...
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