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Big Corporations Put Up Seed Funding for Republican Dark Money Group
by Justin ElliottSome of the nation’s biggest corporations donated more than a million dollars to launch a Republican nonprofit that went on to play a key role in recent political fights.Like the...
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Graphing the Great Gun Debate
by Christie ThompsonIn Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Obama again called for Congress to take quick action on gun control. “These proposals deserve a vote,” he said. “Because in the...
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Can Vote-By-Mail Fix Those Long Lines At The Polls?
by Christie ThompsonIn his State of the Union address, President Obama returned to a point he’d made on election night: The need to do something about long voting lines. Obama announced his plan for a...
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IRS Should Bar Dark Money Groups From Funding Political Ads, Lawsuit Says
by Kim Barker A former Illinois congressional candidate and a government watchdog organization have teamed up to sue the Internal Revenue Service, claiming the agency should bar dark money groups from...
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From Citizens United to Super PACs: A Campaign Finance Reading Guide
This post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on Aug. 20, 2012.On Tuesday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging caps on overall campaign contributions. The new case could...
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Four Disturbing Questions About the Mumbai Terror Attack
Analysis by Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica The 35-year prison sentence imposed on David Coleman Headley, a terrorist scout and Pakistani spy convicted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has closed the U.S....
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Land Grab Cheats North Dakota Tribes Out of $1 Billion, Suits Allege
by Abrahm Lustgarten Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for lowball prices, a flurry of recent...
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What Researchers Learned About Gun Violence Before Congress Killed Funding
by Joaquin Sapien President Obama has directed the Centers for Disease Control to research gun violence as part of his legislative package on gun control. The CDC hasn't pursued this kind of research...
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Why the Supreme Court May Rule Against the Voting Rights Act
by Suevon LeeThis post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on Dec. 10, 2012.On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Shelby County v. Holder, a case challenging the...
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The Drone War Doctrine We Still Know Nothing About
by Cora Currier and Justin ElliottThe nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director has prompted intense debate on Capitol Hill and in the media about U.S. drone killings abroad. But the focus has...
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Five Ways Courts Say Texas Discriminated Against Black and Latino Voters
by Lois Beckett and Suevon LeeThis post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on Sept. 4, 2012.Oral arguments begin today in a Supreme Court case challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights...
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Under Obama, More Appointments Go Unfilled
by Theodoric MeyerThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services haven’t had a Senate-confirmed administrator since 2006. The Federal Labor Relations Authority has had only a single member since...
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How Mom’s Death Changed My Thinking About End-of-Life Care
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with The Washington Post. My father, sister and I sat in the near-empty Chinese restaurant, picking at our plates, unable to avoid the question that we'd...
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Have You Had To Make End-Of-Life Care Decisions? Share Your Experience
by Blair HickmanEnd-of-life care can be expensive and often futile. But that doesn’t make families’ bedside decisions any easier.ProPublica’s veteran health-care reporter Charles Ornstein recently...
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A Graphic Guide to the Sequester
by Christie ThompsonThere's been a lot of talk of the looming budget cuts that, without a last-minute deal, must go into effect by 11:59 p.m. ET on March 1. Obama will meet with congressional leaders...
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How Does the U.S. Mark Unidentified Men in Pakistan and Yemen as Drone Targets?
by Cora CurrierEarlier this week, we wrote about a significant but often overlooked aspect of the drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen: so-called signature strikes, in which the U.S. kills people whose...
View ArticleLawyer in Insurance Fraud Case Asks to Rescind Guilty Plea
by Jake Bernstein Last November, it looked as though federal prosecutors had closed their case against a Rhode Island man who used terminally ill people in a plan to collect money from insurance...
View ArticleFinancial Aid Group Calls on Feds to Shore Up Lending to Parents
by Marian Wang As we reported last year, parents are increasingly borrowing through a federal program to fund their children’s college education. Called Parent Plus, the program has no hard limits...
View ArticleSheldon Adelson’s Casino Company Stirs Fresh Questions With Admission It...
by Stephen Engelberg Last week's admission by Sheldon Adelson's casino company that it had "likely" violated provisions of the federal law barring U.S. companies from bribing foreign officials raises...
View ArticleDespite New Pardons, Obama’s Clemency Rate is Still Lowest in Recent History
by Cora Currier On Friday, President Obama pardoned 17 people. But despite the new pardons, the Obama administration has still granted clemency more rarely than any president in recent history....
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