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America’s Long Civil Rights March, Complete With Stops and Starts
by Nikole Hannah-JonesEver since the War of the States, Congress and the Supreme Court have clashed over the question of civil rights. Congress would move to guarantee certain rights for black...
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Timeline: America’s Long Civil Rights March
by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Al ShawProPublica has created a timeline to appreciate the key moments and often differing aims of the government’s judicial and legislative branches in the ongoing clash...
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Less Than Total Recall
by Joe SextonJuly 10: This post has been updated. For Jabbar Collins, the moment just after 9:35 a.m. on June 21 had been a long time coming. Collins had served 16 years in prison for a murder he says...
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F.A.Q. on U.S. Aid to Egypt: Where Does the Money Go—And Who Decides How It’s...
by Marian Wang and Theodoric MeyerThis article has been updated to reflect new developments. It was first published on Jan. 31, 2011.The recent military coup in Egypt has prompted a renewed debate...
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NSA Surveillance Lawsuit Tracker
by Kara BrandeiskyThe recent disclosure of sweeping surveillance by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has prompted a new wave of legal challenges to the U.S. government’s intelligence-gathering programs.
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The Terror Threat and Iran’s Inroads in Latin America
by Sebastian RotellaLast year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited his ally President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, where the firebrand leaders unleashed defiant rhetoric at the United...
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California Hunger Strike Raises Issue of Force-Feeding on U.S. Soil
by Christie ThompsonMore than 12,400 inmates across California have been fasting since Monday, to protest solitary confinement and call for improved prison conditions. The strike, involving roughly...
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Army Says War Records Gap Is Real, Launches Recovery Effort
by Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublicaJuly 12: This post has been updated. The U.S. Army has conceded a significant loss of records documenting battlefield action and other operations in Iraq and...
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MuckReads Podcast: The Good Nurse
by Minhee ChoOver the course of 16 years, registered nurse Charles Cullen murdered at least 40 patients and has been implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 people – making him one of the most...
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Prescriber Checkup Q&A
by Marshall AllenFor the first time, ProPublica’s Prescriber Checkup reveals what medications doctors and other providers are giving patients under Medicare’s Part D prescription drug program....
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Why You Should Care About the Drugs Your Doctor Prescribes
by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein This article was co-published in the Op-Ed pages of the Los Angeles Times. Your doctor hands you a prescription for a blood pressure drug. But is it the right one...
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RIP Herb Allison
by Paul Steiger ProPublica director Herbert M. Allison Jr. was a prominent financial-industry executive who also became one of its most forceful critics. He served the presidencies of both Republican...
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Using Outdated Data, FEMA Is Wrongly Placing Homeowners in Flood Zones
by Theodoric MeyerWhen Donna Edgar found out that new flood maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency would place her house in a high-risk flood zone, she couldn’t believe it.Her home, on the...
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Do You Know About Problems With FEMA’s Flood Mapping?
by Theodoric MeyerHomeowners across the country are facing headaches over flooding, but not because of water-damaged property or lack of insurance. They are being asked to buy insurance they don’t...
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Introducing the Voices of Patient Harm
by Amanda ZamoraOver the last year, ProPublica has been investigating patient harm, one of the leading causes of death in America, and inviting providers and patients to share their experiences with...
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No Warrant, No Problem: How the Government Can Get Your Digital Data
by Theodoric Meyer and Peter Maass
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Does the NSA Tap That? What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet...
by Justin ElliottAmong the snooping revelations of recent weeks, there have been tantalizing bits of evidence that the NSA is tapping fiber-optic cables that carry nearly all international phone and...
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Podcast: FEMA’s Flawed Flood Maps
by Minhee Cho The Federal Emergency Management Agency is responsible for drawing the flood maps that determine how much millions of Americans must pay in flood insurance premiums. A number of these...
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NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails
by Justin ElliottThe NSA is a "supercomputing powerhouse" with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant machine...
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