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Free the Files Teams Up with Huffington Post to Unlock Political Ads in Swing...
by Amanda Zamora In our ever-expanding quest to Free the Files, ProPublica is teaming up with Huffington Post in Denver, Detroit, Miami and Washington, D.C. to unlock political spending in the final...
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Free the Files Frequently Asked Questions
by Amanda Zamora Updated Oct. 10, 2012 What is Free the Files? Free the Files is a new ProPublica news application tracking political ad filings from television stations in swing markets. Our goal is...
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Reporting Recipe: Four Stories You Can Write Using Free the Files
by Justin Elliott We’ve been writing a lot about the newly available TV station ad files that offer never-before-available details on political spending. And ProPublica readers around the country have...
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What a Failed Vegas Sex Pill and The Meningitis Outbreak Have In Common
by Marshall Allen Imagine my surprise when I heard about Vegas Mixx, the latest club drug being promoted in Las Vegas. Marketing materials described it as a combination of Valium, to relax the mind,...
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Still Classified: Terror Suspects’ Own Accounts of Their Abuse
by Cora Currier This post has been updated. It was originally published on Oct. 9, 2012. In a motion unsealed last week, the government proposed new ground rules for classified information in the...
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws
by Suevon Lee This post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on July 23. Voter IDs laws have become a political flashpoint in what's gearing up to be another close election year....
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Inside the Janesville Data
by Amy Goldstein, Special to ProPublica, This story’s analysis of the effects of job-retraining in Janesville, Wis., is the first in the United States that has examined this question using data since...
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Rare Agreement: Obama, Romney, Ryan All Endorse Retraining for Jobless—But...
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Dealing With Student Debt: Join Our Google Plus Chat
by Blair Hickman Students aren’t the only ones graduating with massive debt – parents are increasingly overburdened, too. As ProPublica’s Marian Wang and The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Beckie...
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Is BofA’s Foreclosure Review Really Independent? You Be the Judge
by Paul Kiel Late last year, the country's bank regulators launched a massive program to evaluate millions of foreclosure cases and compensate homeowners who fell victim to the banks' flawed or...
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Paul Ryan Reading Guide: The Best Reporting on the VP Candidate
Editor's note: This post was first published Aug. 11, 2012. It was corrected Aug. 12 and updated with new material Aug. 15 and Oct. 11. Tweet #RyanReads We’ve had several days to get to know Rep....
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Big Bird Debate: How Much Does Federal Funding Matter to Public Broadcasting?
by Suevon Lee Are Big Bird’s 15 minutes up yet? Last week, Mitt Romney pulled public broadcasting into the presidential campaign when he said he would “stop the subsidy” to PBS, despite his love for...
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MuckReads Podcast: Pawns in the War on Drugs
by Minhee Cho In the government's war on drugs, confidential informants are the foot soldiers — an inexpensive (and often unregulated) way to outsource the work of undercover cops. But when first-time...
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The Best Reporting on Facebook and Your Privacy
by Theodoric Meyer Facebook hit the one-billion user mark last week, a little more than two years after it reached 500 million users. To mark the occasion, we've rounded up some of the best reads on...
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Free the Files Tracks $294 Million in TV Ads, With Obama Topping Buyer List
by Amanda Zamora In just two weeks, volunteers for our Free the Files project have liberated information on $294 million in ad buys made in swing states since Aug. 2. The spending data comes from...
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Big Electric Companies Behind ‘Grassroots’ Ad Campaign in Florida
by Theodoric Meyer Oct. 15: This story has been updated with comments from the Edison Electric Institute. Since August, a dark money group called Defend My Dividend has spent nearly $90,000 running...
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How Financial Aid Letters Often Leave Students Confused and Misinformed
by Marian Wang .DC-note-container {margin-bottom: 10px;} The financial aid award letters that colleges send to prospective students can be confusing: Many mix grants, scholarships and loans all under...
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The Campaign Finance Free-For-All: How We Got to This Point
by Justin Elliott In a forthcoming law review article, Richard Briffault of Columbia Law School argues that the rise of super PACs and unfettered contributions and spending this election cycle are...
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Money is Speech: A Musical History of Campaign Finance
Here's our latest explainer video, on the storied history of money in politics. Lyrics follow. Act I: Brown Paper Bags “I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited...
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How an Accused Guatemalan War Criminal Won U.S., Canadian Citizenship
by Sebastian Rotella Editor's Note: This story has also been published in Spanish. In May 1985, a Guatemalan Army lieutenant named Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes deserted, flew to San Francisco and...
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