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Ring Out the Year With a Donation to ProPublica
by Paul Steiger This has been a year of impact for ProPublica's journalism. We're making a difference. So as 2011 comes to a close, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help ProPublica...
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Military Still Struggling to Treat Troops With Brain Injuries
by Joaquin Sapien This is part of our year-end series, looking at where things stand in each of our major investigations. For the past two years, ProPublica and NPR have collaborated on an...
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Still Waiting for Cleanup in Foreclosure Mess
by Marian Wang This is part of our year-end series, looking at where things stand in each of our major investigations. If last year was the year in which faulty foreclosures and bank errors became a...
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Invasion of the Body Scanners: They’re Spreading, But Are They Safe and...
by Michael Grabell This is part of our year-end series, looking at where things stand in each of our major investigations. It has become routine for airline passengers across the country: Instead of...
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Oh, Canada’s Become a Home for Record Fracking
by Nicholas Kusnetz Early last year, deep in the forests of northern British Columbia, workers for Apache Corp. performed what the company proclaimed was the biggest hydraulic fracturing operation...
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Fracking Cracks the Public Consciousness in 2011
by Abrahm Lustgarten This is part of our year-end series, looking at where things stand in each of our major investigations. This was the year that "fracking" became a household word. It wasn't just...
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Top MuckReads of 2011: Domestic Surveillance, Shell Companies and College...
by Daniel Victor Here are some of this year's top must-read stories from #MuckReads, ProPublica's ongoing collection of the best watchdog journalism. This is far from an exhaustive list of the year's...
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Drug Companies Reduce Payments to Doctors as Scrutiny Mounts
by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein This is part of our year-end series, looking at where things stand in each of our major investigations. Some of the nation's top medical schools cracked down on...
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Our Guide to the Best Coverage on Rick Santorum and His Record
by Lena Groeger This is the latest installment in a series of reading guides on 2012 presidential candidates. Here are the other guides. The Basics Rick Santorum's strong showing in the Iowa caucuses...
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Speeding Up Security: The TSA Wants to Screen Before They Scan
by Lena Groeger TSA body scanners continue their steady advance into our nation’s airports, but another agency security initiative begins well before travelers ever reach a checkpoint. PreCheck, the...
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New Technologies in the Works to Detect Brain Injuries
by Lena Groeger Traumatic brain injuries have been called the signature injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, affecting more than 155,000 men and women in uniform. But these traumas don't always...
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Top MuckReads: Tasers, Drone Attacks, and Hospice Gone Awry
by Daniel Victor Here are this week's top must-read stories from #MuckReads, ProPublica's ongoing collection of the best watchdog journalism. Anyone can contribute by tweeting a link to a story and...
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The Recess Appointment(s) Obama Hasn’t Made
by Marian Wang A move by President Obama this week to proceed with a handful of recess appointments has top GOP leaders crying foul, complaining that the move is questionably legal because it ignores...
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A Far Cry From ‘CSI’
by A.C. Thompson This story was co-published with the Los Angeles Times. California Gov. Jerry Brown is considering granting clemency to Shirley Ree Smith, a grandmother convicted in 1997 of shaking...
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Our Guide to the Best Coverage on Jon Huntsman and His Record
by Daniel Victor This is the latest installment in a series of reading guides on 2012 presidential candidates. Here are the other guides. Jon Huntsman's divergence on some core Republican issues, both...
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Pardons and Presidents – A Washington Post Editorial
by Mike Webb Late last year, ProPublica and the Washington Post published a series of stories that exposed racial disparities in the awarding of presidential pardons. Dafna Linzer and Jennifer LaFleur...
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Will the Supreme Court Strike Down Part of the Voting Rights Act?
by Lois Beckett As noted below, this guide has been updated. This guide was originally published on Jan. 9, 2012. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a Texas redistricting case that could...
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Underwater Homeowners May Swim Freely
by Lena Groeger Prevailing wisdom has it that homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than their houses are worth -- known as being "underwater" -- are forced to stay put because the property is...
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New Bill Would Put Taxpayer-Funded Science Behind Pay Walls
by Lena Groeger Right now, if you want to read the published results of the biomedical research that your own tax dollars paid for, all you have to do is visit the digital archive of the National...
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In Mississippi, Identities of Pardon Applicants Must Be Public
by Dafna Linzer The legality of last-minute clemency decisions by outgoing Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour appears to hinge on whether the recipients gave sufficient public notice of their intent to...
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