A Son Lost in Iraq, but Where Is the Casualty Report?
(This video was shot and edited by Steve Hebert for ProPublica and produced by Steve Hebert for ProPublica and Krista Kjellman Schmidt, ProPublica)By Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublica and Hal...
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How Safe are America’s 2.5 Million Miles of Pipelines?
Map of major natural gas and oil pipelines in the United States. Hazardous liquid lines in red, gas transmission lines in blue. Source: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. By Lena...
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Homeland Security Has Spent $430 Million on Radios Its Employees Don’t Know...
By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica, Nov. 21, 2012Getting the agencies responsible for national security to communicate better was one of the main reasons the Department of Homeland Security was created...
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Latest Sanction Against BP Goes Beyond Gulf Spill
[Image via Flickr]By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublicaWhen the Obama administration temporarily banned BP from federal contracts Wednesday, it pointed to BP's "lack of business integrity" and conduct...
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The Senate Report on CIA Interrogations You May Never See
By Cora Currier, ProPublicaA 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,...
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The Best Reporting on Guns in America
[Photo credit: Reuters]By Blair Hickman, Suevon Lee and Cora Currier, ProPublica, Dec. 14, 2012, 4:34 p.m.Update: With today's shooting in Newtown, Conn., this article, first published July 24, 2012,...
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Karl Rove’s Dark Money Group Promised IRS It Would Spend ‘Limited’ Money on...
By Kim Barker, ProPublica 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...
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BofA Supplied Default Answers for ‘Independent’ Foreclosure Claims Reviewers
By Paul Kiel, ProPublica, Dec. 17, 2012 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...
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How Much Did Sheldon Adelson Really Spend on Campaign 2012?
[Image via Flickr user DonkeyHotey]By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica, Dec. 20, 2012, 11:48 a.m. Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate and emblem of the Citizens United-era of campaign finance,...
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As Foreclosure Crisis Drags On, So Does Flawed Government Response
By Paul Kiel, ProPublicaAs the sixth year of the foreclosure crisis comes to an end, the percentage of loans in foreclosure remains a staggering eight times higher than it was in 2005. About 5.3...
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Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel?
[Photo via Flickr]By Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, Special to ProPublicaThis story was co-published with Foreign Policy.Accra is a city of choking red dust where almost no rain falls for three months at a...
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Five Federal Policies on Guns You’ve Never Heard Of
By Suevon Lee, ProPublica, Jan. 7, 2013 U.S. gun policy is set by both state and federal law. We previously published an explainer on the ways states have eased gun restrictions. But federal policy,...
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In Minnesota, Democratic Grandmas Gather Data About Their Neighbors
By Lois Beckett, ProPublica In Minnesota, Democratic volunteers scour their local newspapers each morning for letters to the editor with a political slant. They pay attention to the names of callers on...
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Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience or Cyber Crime?
By Christie Thompson, ProPublica, Jan. 18, 2013When Reddit co-founder and internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide last Friday, he was facing up to 13 felony counts, 50 years in...
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For Obama, More Prose than Poetry in Second Inaugural
[Photo Credit: Reuters]By Richard Tofel, ProPublica, Jan. 21, 2013As we did four years ago, we asked Richard Tofel, ProPublica's president and author of a book on President Kennedy's inaugural...
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Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Someday Need to Drink
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, Jan. 25, 2013 Mexico City plans to draw drinking water from a mile-deep aquifer, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The Mexican effort challenges a key...
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New Report Calls for More Grants to Low-Income Students, End to Federal...
enlargeBy Marian Wang, ProPublicaThe federal government must double down on grants to low-income students and dramatically simplify the system of student loans, says a new report by the non-partisan...
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Do As We Say, Congress Says, Then Does What It Wants
By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublicaWhen CBS News reported in 2011 that members of Congress weren't prohibited from insider trading, Congress moved swiftly.President Obama signed a law banning it within six...
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Iraq War Contractor Fined for Late Reports of 30 Deaths
By T. Christian Miller, ProPublica The U.S. Department of Labor has fined a private security contractor $75,000 for failing to file timely reports on the deaths of workers in Iraq as required by law....
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Has Obama Kept His Open-Government Pledge?
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)By Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica, Feb. 11, 2013After eight years of tightened access to government records under the Bush administration, open-government...
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