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Everything We Know (So Far) About Obama’s Big Data Tactics
by Lois BeckettThis post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on Nov. 13.For the past nine months, we’ve been following how political campaigns use data about voters to target them in...
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To Retrieve Attack Helicopters from Russia, Syria Asks Iraq for Help,...
by Michael Grabell, Dafna Linzer, and Jeff LarsonIn late October, Syria asked Iraqi authorities to grant air access for a cargo plane transporting refurbished attack helicopters from Russia, according...
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Meet the Think Tankers Advising the U.S. Military in Kabul
by Justin ElliottAmid the media frenzy over former CIA director David Petraeus’ extramarital affair, we were struck by a quick reference in a Washington Post story about Petraeus’ time running the war...
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How Cellphone Companies Have Resisted Rules for Disasters
by Cora Currier In a natural disaster or other emergency, one of the first things you're likely to reach for is your cellphone. Landlines are disappearing. More than 30 percent of American households...
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Lost War Records: Watch The Congressional Hearing
By Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublicaA congressional subcommittee today plans to take up the topic of missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, the subject of a ProPublica-Seattle Times...
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Snooping On the X-ray Tech: A Patient’s Dilemma
by Marshall AllenI found myself in the hospital recently, watching my 11-year-old son get an X-ray for an arm he broke after a fall from his skateboard. As the technician positioned his arm on a table...
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No Warrant, No Problem: How The Government Can Still Get Your Digital Data
by Theodoric Meyer and Peter Maass
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Iraq Blocks Syria’s Request to Fetch Combat Helicopters from Russia
by Michael Grabell, Dafna Linzer and Jeff Larson, ProPublica Iraq has shut its airspace to four Syrian flights scheduled to pick up attack helicopters that had been repaired in Russia, the spokesman to...
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Veterans’ Advocate to Congress: Reconstruct Missing War Records
by Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublica The leader of a national veterans' advocacy group urged a congressional subcommittee to force the Department of Defense to immediately reconstruct — if possible —...
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The New Border: Illegal Immigration’s Shifting Frontier
by Sebastian RotellaVersions of this story were co-published with The Arizona Republic and Foreign Policy. TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Mexico — Oscar and Jennifer Cruz knew that crossing the border would be the...
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FCC’s Plan for Fixing Its Political Ads Transparency Site? It Won’t Say
by Justin ElliottWhen the Federal Communications Commission passed a rule earlier this year to require TV stations to post political ad buying information online, public interest groups (and...
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Cutting through the Controversy about Indefinite Detention and the NDAA
by Cora CurrierOn Tuesday, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a yearly military spending bill.Last year, the bill affirmed the U.S.’s authority to hold suspected...
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Have You Experienced Housing Discrimination? Tell Us Your Story
by Nikole Hannah-JonesIn July 2007, a Minnesota landlord arranged to show a duplex to a potential renter. But when she arrived at the rental and saw the prospective tenant was black she refused to get...
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The Senate Report on CIA Interrogations You May Never See
by Cora CurrierA 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, D-Calif.,...
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Interior Secretary Moves to Tighten Rules Over Sale of Wild Horses
by Dave Philipps, Special to ProPublicaThis story was co-published with the Colorado Springs Gazette. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar says he will tighten regulations of the federal government's wild...
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The Other Crucial Civil Rights Case the Supreme Court Will be Ruling On
by Suevon Lee On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear two cases challenging state and federal laws which prevent the legal union between same-sex couples. But it's not the only...
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Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation’s...
by Abrahm Lustgarten Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground...
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Crowdsourcing Campaign Spending: What We Learned From Free the Files
by Amanda Zamora .propub-listicle h2 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px !important; padding-top: 1.3em; padding-bottom: 0em; }This fall, ProPublica set out to Free the Files,...
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Iranian Sociologist’s Dying Wish to Join His Family—Rejected by the U.S.
by Cora CurrierA dying Iranian sociologist has been trying desperately to come to the U.S. in order to be with his family and receive potentially life-saving cancer treatment. The U.S. has just given...
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MuckReads, Meet RebelMouse
by Amanda ZamoraWe are happy to alert fans of our popular MuckReads feature that you can now read Mucks on Facebook, too.This week, we relaunched MuckReads to make it easier for you to find our...
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