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How Voter Fraud Works — And Mostly Doesn’t
by Susie Cagle for ProPublica, Every election season, cries that voter fraud will threaten the legitimacy of American democracy can be heard throughout the country. Critics say these claims are...
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New York City Police Receptive to Some Reforms of Nuisance Enforcement
by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and the New York Daily News, This story was co-published with the New York Daily News. The New York Police Department expressed willingness to compromise on a package of...
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Clay Pigeons: How Lobbyists Secretly Woo Top Election Officials
by Robert Faturechi, ProPublica and Eric Lipton, The New York Times, This story was co-published with The New York Times. Big-money corporate lobbying has reached into one of the most obscure corners...
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Where Traditional DNA Testing Fails, Algorithms Take Over
by Lauren Kirchner Late on a hot August night in 2014, Syracuse, New York, police tried to pull over a car driving without headlights. The driver and passenger fled into a darkened park. As the...
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Defense Lawyers in Las Vegas Consider Formal Challenge to Use of Field Tests...
by Ryan Gabrielson A prominent organization of defense lawyers in Las Vegas this week formed a committee to explore ways of challenging local law enforcement’s methods for gaining drug convictions....
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Would Wall Street Have a Place in a Clinton Administration?
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The New Yorker. On Oct. 29, 2013, Hillary Clinton joined Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, for a discussion at its Builders and Innovators...
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Inside ‘Electionland’: Tracking Voting Problems in Real Time
by Robert Faturechi .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} On Tuesday, as voters go to the polls, ProPublica will be trying something that's never been...
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Waiting to Vote: Could 2012 Offer Clues on Where Floridians Will Encounter...
by Marcelo Rochabrun When people think of voting meltdowns in Florida, their thoughts typically turn to Bush vs. Gore and the messy aftermath of the 2000 presidential election. But they needn’t look...
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HUD Has ‘Serious Concerns’ About Facebook’s Ethnic Targeting
by Stephen Engelberg The federal agency that enforces the nation’s fair housing laws said it is “in discussions” with Facebook to address what it termed “serious concerns” about the social network’s...
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Thousands of Potentially Wrongful Convictions; Years of Delayed Action
by Patrick G. Lee In August 2012, Annie Dookhan, a veteran chemist with a Massachusetts state drug lab, admitted to contaminating samples and faking test results during her 8 1/2-year career. More...
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Revenge of the Forgotten Class
by Alec MacGillis In March, I was driving along a road that led from Dayton, Ohio, into its formerly middle-class, now decidedly working-class southwestern suburbs, when I came upon an arresting...
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Facebook Says it Will Stop Allowing Some Advertisers to Exclude Users by Race
by Julia Angwin Facing a wave of criticism for allowing advertisers to exclude anyone with an “affinity” for African-American, Asian-American or Hispanic people from seeing ads, Facebook said it would...
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The Sheriff Gets His Man
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The New York Times magazine. Ohio was once the home of the Old Guard, Main Street, county Chamber of Commerce Republican Party: stolid, sober, civil,...
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New Study Could Pressure VA to Expand Agent Orange Benefits
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, The Virginian-Pilot This story was co-published with The Virginian-Pilot. A new study has found a close relationship between Agent Orange exposure...
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Hate Crimes Are Up — But the Government Isn’t Keeping Good Track of Them
by A.C. Thompson and Ken Schwencke In 2015, the authorities in California documented 837 hate-crime incidents, charting a surge in offenses motivated by religious intolerance toward Muslims and Jews,...
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These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers
by Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliott ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Cameron Cottrill, special to ProPublica These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour...
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After Electionland: How it Worked, What We Found and What’s Next
by Kate Brown .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} The results are in. The country has a new president-elect, and over 1,000 people joined...
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NYC Lawmakers Push For Audits of Landlords Who Pocket $1.4 Billion Tax Break
by Cezary Podkul New York City’s biggest housing subsidy may finally get more scrutiny just as state lawmakers are about to consider a massive expansion of the controversial program. The $1.4...
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We’ve Updated Prescriber Checkup with 2014 Data
by Charles Ornstein , Lena Groeger and Ryann Grochowski Jones Use this tool to compare how your doctor prescribes medications in Medicare’s drug program with other doctors in the same specialty and...
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