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No Sting: Feds Won’t Go Undercover to Prove Housing Discrimination
by Nikole Hannah-Jones The four-bedroom house advertised on Craigslist sounded like just what Claire Rembis and her husband had been looking for. It sat on two verdant acres with plenty of room for...
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How Dark Money Helped Republicans Hold the House and Hurt Voters
by Olga Pierce , Justin Elliott and Theodoric MeyerIn the November election, a million more Americans voted for Democrats seeking election to the U.S. House of Representatives than Republicans. But...
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IG Report: Senior Justice Department Official Shares Blame in Botched...
by Dafna Linzer In blasting the Justice Department's pardon office earlier this week, the agency's inspector general said senior department officials shared responsibility for failures in the case of...
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House Seats vs. Popular Vote
by Lena Groeger , Theodoric Meyer , Olga Pierce and Justin Elliott
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Support ProPublica’s Reporting Into the New Year
As the year comes to a close, we hope you'll support our efforts to hold the powerful to account by making a tax-deductible contribution to ProPublica. During the year just ending we produced...
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On a Wyoming Ranch, Feds Sacrifice Tomorrow’s Water to Mine Uranium Today
by Abrahm Lustgarten GILLETTE, Wyo. — On a lonely stretch at the edge of the Great Plains, rolling grassland presses up against a crowning escarpment called the Pumpkin Buttes. The land appears...
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In Montana, Dark Money Helped Democrats Hold a Key Senate Seat
by Kim BarkerDec. 27: This post has been corrected. In the waning days of Montana's hotly contested Senate race, a small outfit called Montana Hunters and Anglers, launched by liberal activists, tried...
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How Bad Is Our Debt Problem, Anyway? And Will a Deal Fix It?
by Theodoric Meyer President Obama will meet with congressional leaders today in another attempt to avert the fiscal cliff — the automatic tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect Jan. 1...
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The Inactivation of the Body Scanners
by Michael Grabell div ul {clear: right; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style:disc;} div ul li {margin:0 0 5px 15px; position relative;} X-raying passengers for airline...
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By the Numbers: Comparing Spending by Gun Rights and Gun Control Interest Groups
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As Foreclosure Crisis Drags On, So Does Flawed Government Response
by Paul Kiel div ul {clear: right; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style:disc;} div ul li {margin:0 0 5px 15px; position relative;}As the sixth year of the foreclosure...
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Best of MuckReads 2012
by Blair Hickman , Suevon Lee and Cora CurrierAs 2012 comes to a close (and awards season approaches), we selected some of our favorite accountability journalism published this year. Browse our full...
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Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel?
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 time and clothes...
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Unraveling the Freddie-Fannie Tangle
by Jesse Eisinger and Cora Currier div ul {clear: right; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style:disc;} div ul li {margin:0 0 5px 15px; position relative;} In the aftermath...
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Podcast: How the Wal-Mart Bribery in Mexico Investigation Came Together
by Mike Webb For our first MuckReads podcast of 2013, we invited New York Times reporter David Barstow to talk to our editor Steve Engelberg about his investigation into how Wal-Mart used bribery to...
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Controversial Dark Money Group Among Five That Told IRS They Would Stay Out...
by Kim Barker Five conservative dark money groups active in 2012 elections previously told tax regulators that they would not engage in politics, filings obtained from the IRS show. The best known and...
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Watchdogs to IRS: Reject Rove Group’s Tax Application
by Justin ElliottTwo watchdog groups are calling on the IRS to reject Crossroads GPS’ request to be recognized as a social welfare nonprofit.Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center, nonpartisan...
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Families Shoulder Heftier Burdens as College Debt Swells
by Marian Wang div ul {clear: right; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style:disc;} div ul li {margin:0 0 5px 15px; position relative;}It's been a year of eye-popping...
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Mass Shootings Do Little to Change State Gun Laws
by Joaquin Sapien Following the mass shooting in Connecticut, the Obama administration and lawmakers around the country have promised to re-examine gun control in America. ProPublica decided to take a...
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How You Can Help ProPublica Cover Patient Safety
by Marshall Allen Among the more active members of our Facebook group on patient safety, Veronica James stands out. She joined soon after we started the group in May and shared the story of her...
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