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Veterans’ Advocate to Congress: Reconstruct Missing War Records
by Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublica The leader of a national veterans' advocacy group urged a congressional subcommittee to force the Department of Defense to immediately reconstruct — if possible —...
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The New Border: Illegal Immigration’s Shifting Frontier
by Sebastian RotellaVersions of this story were co-published with The Arizona Republic and Foreign Policy. TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Mexico — Oscar and Jennifer Cruz knew that crossing the border would be the...
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FCC’s Plan for Fixing Its Political Ads Transparency Site? It Won’t Say
by Justin ElliottWhen the Federal Communications Commission passed a rule earlier this year to require TV stations to post political ad buying information online, public interest groups (and...
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Cutting through the Controversy about Indefinite Detention and the NDAA
by Cora CurrierOn Tuesday, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a yearly military spending bill.Last year, the bill affirmed the U.S.’s authority to hold suspected...
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Have You Experienced Housing Discrimination? Tell Us Your Story
by Nikole Hannah-JonesIn July 2007, a Minnesota landlord arranged to show a duplex to a potential renter. But when she arrived at the rental and saw the prospective tenant was black she refused to get...
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The Senate Report on CIA Interrogations You May Never See
by Cora CurrierA Senate committee is close to putting the final stamp on a massive report on the CIA’s detention, interrogation and rendition of terror suspects. Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,...
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Interior Secretary Moves to Tighten Rules Over Sale of Wild Horses
by Dave Philipps, Special to ProPublicaThis story was co-published with the Colorado Springs Gazette. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar says he will tighten regulations of the federal government's wild...
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The Other Crucial Civil Rights Case the Supreme Court Will be Ruling On
by Suevon Lee On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear two cases challenging state and federal laws which prevent the legal union between same-sex couples. But it's not the only...
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Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation’s...
by Abrahm Lustgarten Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground...
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Crowdsourcing Campaign Spending: What We Learned From Free the Files
by Amanda Zamora .propub-listicle h2 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px !important; padding-top: 1.3em; padding-bottom: 0em; }This fall, ProPublica set out to Free the Files,...
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Iranian Sociologist’s Dying Wish to Join His Family—Rejected by the U.S.
by Cora CurrierA dying Iranian sociologist has been trying desperately to come to the U.S. in order to be with his family and receive potentially life-saving cancer treatment. The U.S. has just given...
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MuckReads, Meet RebelMouse
by Amanda ZamoraWe are happy to alert fans of our popular MuckReads feature that you can now read Mucks on Facebook, too.This week, we relaunched MuckReads to make it easier for you to find our...
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Are Voter ID Laws Here to Stay?
by Suevon Lee Voter ID laws were one of the most contentious issues of the past election season. (Here is everything you need to know about the laws.) Proponents insisted IDs should be required at...
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Mexico’s Newspapers Shy From Covering the Drug Gangs Behind Continuing Violence
by Stephen Engelberg Mexico's regional newspapers are publishing more stories about murders linked to the drug trade, but they remain reluctant to write what they know about the organizations...
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Karl Rove’s Dark Money Group Promised IRS It Would Spend ‘Limited’ Money on...
by Kim Barker In a confidential 2010 filing, Crossroads GPS — the dark money group that spent more than $70 million from anonymous donors on the 2012 election — told the Internal Revenue Service that...
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The Best Reporting on Guns in America
by Blair Hickman , Suevon Lee and Cora CurrierUpdate: With today's shooting in Newtown, Conn., this article, first published July 24, 2012, unfortunately seems relevant again.In the wake of last...
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Cheat Sheet: BofA Supplied Default Answers for ‘Independent’ Foreclosure...
by Paul Kiel The Independent Foreclosure Review is the government's main effort to compensate homeowners for harm they suffered at the hands of banks — and, as its name indicates, it's supposed to be...
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What’s New In Nursing Home Inspect
by Charles Ornstein and Lena GroegerToday we’re updating our Nursing Home Inspect tool to include more information about federal sanctions against nursing homes across the country, including fines and...
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Two Deaths, Wildly Different Penalties: The Big Disparities in Nursing Home...
by Charles Ornstein and Lena Groeger .nh-image { float:left }To see the federal government’s inconsistent oversight of nursing homes, one needs only to look at what happened after two residents died —...
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Updated Nursing Home Inspection Tool
by Lena Groeger and Charles OrnsteinWe’ve updated our app with new data and a new design, making it easier to find nursing home problems in your state.
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