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Dark Money and Citizens United: What Obama and Romney Would and Wouldn’t Do...
by Justin Elliott With campaign finances limits rendered nearly meaningless, election spending is on pace to set records. Where does each presidential candidate stand on how to regulate money in...
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Where Are the Foreclosure Deal Millions Going in Your State?
by Paul Kiel , Lena Groeger and Cora Currier
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Why Florida is Sitting on $300 Million Meant to Help Homeowners
by Cora Currier .list { padding-left:20px; font-size:16px; } Florida has the highest percentage of home loans in foreclosure in the country. So why is more than $300 million that could help homeowners...
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Another Way Student Loans Are Like Mortgages: Subpar Servicing
by Marian Wang Oct. 24: This post has been updated to include a comment from Sallie Mae. The parallels between the mortgage market and the student loan industry have been frequently noted. Both...
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Discussion: The Top Patient Safety Challenges Medical Providers Face
by Blair Hickman Today, we’re launching a series of discussions aimed at exploring patient safety from the perspective of health care professionals. About five months ago, as part of our ongoing...
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Why Freddie Mac Resisted Refis
by Jesse Eisinger Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, made it harder for millions of Americans to refinance their high-interest-rate mortgages for fear it would cut into company profits,...
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Search Our Nursing Home Inspection Data, Now With Thousands of New Reports
by Charles Ornstein The federal government today uploaded details of an additional 70,000 problems at nursing homes nationwide, and we’ve included them in our Nursing Home Inspect tool that lets users...
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Reading Guide: Where Romney and Obama Stand on the Supreme Court
by Suevon Lee The Supreme Court has remained a largely unspoken topic on the campaign trail — even though the Court plays a critical function in Americans' lives. (This past June's Affordable Care Act...
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Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
by Nikole Hannah-Jones A few months after Congress passed a landmark law directing the federal government to dismantle segregation in the nation's housing, President Nixon's housing chief began...
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Documents Found in Meth House Bare Inner Workings of Dark Money Group
by Kim Barker, ProPublica, and Rick Young and Emma Schwartz, Frontline This post was co-published with PBS' Frontline. The boxes landed in the office of Montana investigators in March 2011. Found in a...
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PubNotes: Key Takeaways From ProPublica’s Fair Housing Investigation
An overview of the U.S. government's many failed attempts to promote integrated housing since the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968. Fair Housing Act Born in Heat of Civil Rights Movement In wake of...
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More Evidence Key Dark Money Group May Have Misled IRS
by Kim Barker, ProPublica, and Rick Young and Emma Schwartz, Frontline This story is being co-published with Frontline, which is also airing a documentary on the group tonight. Check your local...
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Reading Guide: Segregation in America
by Cora Currier and Blair Hickman This week, our colleague Nikole Hannah-Jones offered an in-depth look at the many ways the U.S. government has failed to enforce the Fair Housing Act to fight...
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Why Do Hospital Generators Keep Failing?
by Charles Ornstein It is a hospital's nightmare: The power goes out and backup generators don't kick in, leaving critically ill patients without the mechanical help they need to breathe. It happened...
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Podcast: How HUD Failed to Enforce the Fair Housing Act
by Mike Webb On Monday, ProPublica published a major look at how the Department of Housing & Urban Development has failed to enforce the Fair Housing Act's requirements for cities to create...
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Soft on Segregation: How the Feds Failed to Integrate Westchester County
by Nikole Hannah-JonesNov 2: This post has been updated. The city of Rye, nestled along the scenic Long Island Sound in affluent Westchester County, N.Y., represents the best of suburban living....
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Dark Money Group’s Bank Records Suggest Ties to Campaign Work
By Kim Barker, ProPublica, and Rick Young and Emma Schwartz, FrontlineBank documents for a controversial conservative social welfare nonprofit released Friday by Montana officials contradict assertions...
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Find Voting Rights Violations in Nursing Homes
by Jennifer LaFleurTaloria Stevenson Green has voted in every election since 1972, casting her ballot at a polling place across the street from her Washington, D.C. home. But last year, she moved...
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Dark Money Group’s Donors Revealed
by Kim Barker, ProPublica, and Rick Young and Emma Schwartz, FrontlineNov. 5: This post has been updated.This story was co-published with PBS Frontline. The donors wrote notes on their checks like "Go...
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Key Montana Senate Race Draws Deluge of Dark Money
by Kim Barker Montana is known for its big skies, jagged mountains and open roads. Not so much for people. Yet as much as $40 million is being spent to tell the state's 675,000 registered voters who...
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