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A Blow to Health Care Transparency
by Charles Ornstein The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow today to nascent efforts to track the quality and cost of health care, ruling that a 1974 law precludes states from requiring that every health...
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Coming Thursday: Hell and High Water
ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Donate Hell and High Water Houston is the fourth largest city in the country. It’s home to the nation’s largest refining and petrochemical complex, where...
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Our Updated Reading List for the Supreme Court’s Texas Abortion Case
by Nina Martin Updated (Mar. 2, 2016): This post has been revised to reflect the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and to include links to more recent coverage of the Texas abortion case....
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About Hell and High Water
by Scott Klein Related: How we made Hell and High Water In 2005, we watched in horror as news reports showed a devastated New Orleans in the days after Hurricane Katrina. Brackish water flooded the...
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Hell and High Water
by Neena Satija and Kiah Collier for The Texas Tribune, and Al Shaw and Jeff Larson for ProPublica, Houston is the fourth-largest city in the country. It’s home to the nation’s largest refining and...
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Live Forum: Protecting Houston Before the Next Big Storm
by Cynthia Gordy Today, ProPublica and Texas Tribune launched Hell and High Water, a multimedia project on the unprecedented dangers faced by Houston and the entire U.S. economy. Researchers have...
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Is Your Doorman Getting Underpaid? Here’s How to Find Out.
by Cezary Podkul Doormen, janitors and other service workers at scores of luxury apartment buildings in New York City can now check to see if they deserve higher pay because of taxpayer subsidies the...
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The Referendum That Might Have Headed Off Flint’s Water Crisis
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. The tragic lead poisoning of the Flint water supply in Michigan is a study in bureaucratic bungling, racial inequity and national...
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Remember That CEO Pay Cap? It’s Even Less Effective Than We Knew
by Allan Sloan, ProPublica, This story was co-published with The Washington Post. Updated (Mar. 4, 2016): The story has been revised to remove phrasing suggesting that restricted stock grants are not...
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Ailing Vietnam Vets Hunt Through Ships’ Logs to Prove They Should Get Benefits
by Charles Ornstein and Terry Parris Jr., ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, The Virginian-Pilot, This story was co-published with The Virginian-Pilot. During the Vietnam War, hundreds of U.S. Navy...
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The Best MuckReads on the Gulf Coast’s Hurricane Threat
by Adam Harris On Thursday, ProPublica launched a new investigation with The Texas Tribune, "Hell and High Water," which looks at the possibly cataclysmic effects of the next big storm to hit Houston....
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How Philanthropist David Rubenstein Helped Save a Tax Break Billionaires Love
by Alec MacGillis ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Cameron Cottrill for ProPublica The Patriot: How Philanthropist David Rubenstein Helped Save a Tax Break Billionaires...
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Flint’s Water Crisis and the Unique Role of the Reporter Who Helped Uncover It
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} With the last Republican and Democratic debates both held in Michigan (Detroit and Flint,...
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Verizon to Pay $1.35 Million to Settle Zombie Cookie Privacy Charges
by Julia Angwin Verizon agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle Federal Communications Commission charges that it violated customers’ privacy when it used a hidden undeletable number to track cellphone...
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Senator Asks Privacy Regulators to Stop Abuse of Nursing Home Residents on...
by Charles Ornstein A U.S. senator has asked government regulators what, if anything, they’re doing to stop nursing home workers from taking degrading and dehumanizing photos of residents and posting...
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws
by Suevon Lee and Sarah Smith This post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on July 23, 2012. Voter ID laws are a contentious issue in the 2016 presidential election cycle. Many of the...
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‘We’re Sitting Ducks’
ProPublica Hell and High Water Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate ‘We’re Sitting Ducks’ Houston, home to millions of people and one of the largest shipping lanes in the world, is...
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Rent Limits Just a Fiction for Thousands of NYC Tenants, Records Disclose
by Cezary Podkul and Marcelo Rochabrun About 28 percent of New York City apartments subject to rent limits can easily get around them. It takes New York housing officials six to nine months to resolve...
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Trying (and Trying) to Get Records From the ‘Most Transparent Administration’...
by Justin Elliott This story was co-published with The Washington Post. Two years ago last month, I filed a public-records request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of my reporting...
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Researchers Call for More Study of Agent Orange Effects on Vets and Their Kids
by Mike Hixenbaugh, The Virginian-Pilot, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, This story was co-published with the Virginian-Pilot. More than two decades of studying Agent Orange exposure hasn’t produced...
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