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Why the Supreme Court May Rule Against the Voting Rights Act
by Suevon LeeThis post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on Dec. 10, 2012.On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Shelby County v. Holder, a case challenging the...
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The Drone War Doctrine We Still Know Nothing About
by Cora Currier and Justin ElliottThe nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director has prompted intense debate on Capitol Hill and in the media about U.S. drone killings abroad. But the focus has...
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Five Ways Courts Say Texas Discriminated Against Black and Latino Voters
by Lois Beckett and Suevon LeeThis post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on Sept. 4, 2012.Oral arguments begin today in a Supreme Court case challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights...
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Under Obama, More Appointments Go Unfilled
by Theodoric MeyerThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services haven’t had a Senate-confirmed administrator since 2006. The Federal Labor Relations Authority has had only a single member since...
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How Mom’s Death Changed My Thinking About End-of-Life Care
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with The Washington Post. My father, sister and I sat in the near-empty Chinese restaurant, picking at our plates, unable to avoid the question that we'd...
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Have You Had To Make End-Of-Life Care Decisions? Share Your Experience
by Blair HickmanEnd-of-life care can be expensive and often futile. But that doesn’t make families’ bedside decisions any easier.ProPublica’s veteran health-care reporter Charles Ornstein recently...
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A Graphic Guide to the Sequester
by Christie ThompsonThere's been a lot of talk of the looming budget cuts that, without a last-minute deal, must go into effect by 11:59 p.m. ET on March 1. Obama will meet with congressional leaders...
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How Does the U.S. Mark Unidentified Men in Pakistan and Yemen as Drone Targets?
by Cora CurrierEarlier this week, we wrote about a significant but often overlooked aspect of the drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen: so-called signature strikes, in which the U.S. kills people whose...
View ArticleLawyer in Insurance Fraud Case Asks to Rescind Guilty Plea
by Jake Bernstein Last November, it looked as though federal prosecutors had closed their case against a Rhode Island man who used terminally ill people in a plan to collect money from insurance...
View ArticleFinancial Aid Group Calls on Feds to Shore Up Lending to Parents
by Marian Wang As we reported last year, parents are increasingly borrowing through a federal program to fund their children’s college education. Called Parent Plus, the program has no hard limits...
View ArticleSheldon Adelson’s Casino Company Stirs Fresh Questions With Admission It...
by Stephen Engelberg Last week's admission by Sheldon Adelson's casino company that it had "likely" violated provisions of the federal law barring U.S. companies from bribing foreign officials raises...
View ArticleDespite New Pardons, Obama’s Clemency Rate is Still Lowest in Recent History
by Cora Currier On Friday, President Obama pardoned 17 people. But despite the new pardons, the Obama administration has still granted clemency more rarely than any president in recent history....
View ArticleAnother Awesome Presidential Responsibility: Selecting Members of the Marine...
by Theodoric Meyer Last week, we reported that President Obama had lagged behind Bill Clinton and George W. Bush in making presidential appointments. Part of the holdup can be attributed to Republican...
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How to Use Google Docs to Help Power Your Reporting
by Amanda Zamora My colleague Blair Hickman and I recently led a workshop on using social media to help power investigative journalism at Columbia School of Journalism’s Social Media Weekend. While...
View ArticleAfter Sandy, Government Lends to Rebuild in Flood Zones
by Robert Lewis, Special to ProPublica, and Al Shaw, ProPublica This story is being co-published with New York public radio’s WNYC. If Staten Island’s Great Kills Marina Café is able to reopen this...
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Introducing a New Way to Participate in ProPublica’s Journalism
designed by from The Noun Project by Amanda Zamora and Blair Hickman ProPublica is committed to journalism in the public interest and recognizes that you help make much of that journalism possible. So...
View ArticleInteractive Map: See Where the Government is Lending after Sandy
by Al Shaw, ProPublica and Robert Lewis, WNYC. See where the over 20,000 SBA rebuilding loans are, half of which fall in FEMA’s new advisory flood zones.
View ArticleEverything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You
by Lois Beckett Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about whether you're pregnant or divorced or trying to lose weight,...
View Article‘Burn the Data’: Did a Company Try to Hide Risks of MRI Dye Omniscan?
by Jeff Gerth March 7: This post has been updated to incorporate a response from GE. In 1994, a scientist studying her company's new medical imaging dye reached troubling findings. Her boss, she...
View ArticleClarence Aaron Still Waiting for Clemency, Months after Report Found Pardon...
by Cora Currier Last week, President Obama pardoned 17 people – a second batch of pardons from a president who has granted clemency at a lower rate than any of his recent predecessors. Among the...
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