How One Reporter Got the Police Shooting Video Everyone Wanted
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Earlier this month Chicago voters decisively ousted Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez....
View ArticleBrooklyn Officials Ask State to Investigate Rent Overcharges
by Marcelo Rochabrun Two Brooklyn politicians want the state’s Tenant Protection Unit to investigate rent overcharges at a building ProPublica highlighted last fall in a report on lax oversight of tax...
View ArticleTrial and Error: Report Says Prosecutors Rarely Pay Price for Mistakes and...
by Joaquin Sapien The Innocence Project released a report Tuesday alleging that prosecutors across the country are almost never punished when they withhold evidence or commit other forms of misconduct...
View ArticleObama Isn’t Following Through on Pardons Promise, Says His Former Pardons...
by Sarah Smith Two years ago, President Obama unveiled an initiative to give early release to potentially thousands of federal prisoners serving long sentences for low-level drug crimes. The...
View ArticleSuper PACs and Trump’s Wife: How a Photo Dispute Highlights Weakness in...
by Robert Faturechi There’s no evidence to support Donald Trump’s claim that Ted Cruz played a role in a super PAC’s attack on his wife. But federal rules barring coordination between candidates and...
View ArticleNew York Top Court Revives Suit Against Hospital That Let Man’s Death Be Filmed
by Charles Ornstein New York’s highest court on Thursday revived a lawsuit filed by the family of a man whose death was filmed without permission and then broadcast on a popular medical show. The case...
View ArticleHow Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn and Poor Families Lost Their Homes
by Marcelo Rochabrun ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate 782, 784 and 786 Madison St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. (Edwin Torres for ProPublica) How Habitat for Humanity...
View ArticleHomes Lost in Bed-Stuy, NYC Lead, Prison Phone Profits and More in Muckreads...
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
View ArticleKeeping Tabs on the Hacking Hero Who Became a Criminal Kingpin
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Last month The Atavist Magazine launched The Mastermind, a weekly series on a programmer turned...
View ArticleWhy North Carolina’s New Anti-LGBT Law is a Trojan Horse
by Nina Martin This story was co-published with Mother Jones. When North Carolina lawmakers passed what is widely viewed as the most sweeping anti-LGBT law in the country, supporters said it was...
View ArticleAmid Public Feuds, A Venerated Medical Journal Finds Itself Under Attack
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The Boston Globe. The New England Journal of Medicine is arguably the best-known and most venerated medical journal in the world. Studies featured...
View ArticleCouncil Member Pushes Habitat for Humanity to Restore Homes to Displaced...
by Marcelo Rochabrun This story was co-published with the New York Daily News. A New York City Council member is asking the local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity to find housing for several families...
View ArticleThe Best Reporting on Hillary Clinton Over the Years
by Sarah Smith The Arkansas Years In 1977, after her husband Bill Clinton was elected Arkansas’ attorney general, Hillary Rodham, as she then was known, joined the Rose Law Firm. Years later, the New...
View ArticleWeak Oversight Lets Dangerous Nurses Work in New York
by Daniela Porat, Rosalind Adams and Jessica Huseman for ProPublica, This story was co-published with WNYC and the Albany Times Union. Thomas Maino knew he was going to die. Suffering from serious...
View ArticleRe-introducing ProPublica’s iOS App
by David Sleight Today we’re excited to launch the latest version of ProPublica for iOS. The new app is one of the best ways to keep up on ProPublica’s journalism wherever you are. We’ve rebuilt it...
View ArticleCuomo Floats Reforming Oversight of New York Nurses
by Rosalind Adams, Jessica Huseman and Daniela Porat for ProPublica, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that he would consider proposing legislation that would give oversight of New York’s nurses to the...
View ArticleWeak Nursing Oversight, the Panama Papers and More in MuckReads Weekly
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View ArticleMeet the Panama Papers Editor Who Handled 376 Reporters in 80 Countries
by Eric Umansky .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} As the Panama Papers continue to embarrass leaders across continents, one thought has kept...
View ArticleAttorneys General Come Down on Accreditor of For-profit Colleges
by Annie Waldman Twelve state attorneys general have asked the federal Department of Education to revoke the recognition of the much-criticized Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and...
View ArticleThe Best Reporting on Ted Cruz Through the Years
by Sarah Smith Ted Cruz rode a Tea Party wave to the Senate in 2012 after five years as Texas’ solicitor general. Cruz, who holds two Ivy League degrees and served as a clerk to the Chief Justice of...
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