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New York Court Affirms Towns’ Powers to Ban Fracking
by Lena Groeger In a decision that could set a national precedent for how local governments can regulate gas drilling, a New York state court yesterday ruled for the first time that towns have the...
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Revelations on NYPD Surveillance of Muslims Contradict Bloomberg Claims
by Justin Elliott .DC-note-container {margin-bottom: 12px;} The Associated Press published a story today detailing how, in 2007, undercover New York Police Department officers investigated the Muslim...
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Homeowners Who Negotiate Debt Relief Could Soon Face Massive Tax Bill
by Lois Beckett Feb. 23: This post has been updated. You bought your house when the market was high and then lost your job. In order to avoid foreclosure, you negotiated a short sale for half of what...
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Taking Stock of the Stock Act: A Side-by-Side Comparison
by Lena Groeger The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, or Stock Act, recently passed in both chambers of Congress. We break down the main differences between the House and Senate versions,...
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This Week’s Top MuckReads: Faulty Birth Control, Abuse of Disabled, and Bad...
by Blair Hickman 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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Banks Colluding with Insurers to Rip Off Homeowners, Lawsuit Alleges
by Cora Currier A class-action lawsuit in Florida that moved forward this week highlights a little-appreciated aspect of the housing market — the cozy relationship between banks and insurance...
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What Do Republican Presidential Candidates Say on Foreclosure Crisis? Not Much.
by Lois Beckett As we've detailed, President Obama's plans to help homeowners have come up short time and again. We recently looked at Obama's latest proposals, most of which are unlikely to make a...
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New Report Likely to Fuel Debate Over TSA Scanners
by Michael Grabell Feb. 28: This post has been updated. A new report from the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security is likely to fan rather than extinguish the debate over the...
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Financial Firm Fined for Misleading Investors on Magnetar Bets
by Cora Currier State investigators in Massachusetts slapped the investment company State Street Global Advisors yesterday with a $5 million fine for failing to tell investors about the role of the...
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Bahraini ‘Reformers’ in Washington, Courtesy of American Spinmeisters
by Justin Elliott .DC-note-container {margin-bottom: 12px;} Earlier this month, a group of three young Bahrainis arrived in Washington to talk about reform in the small Persian Gulf nation, which has...
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Did the NYPD’s Spying on Muslims Violate the Law?
by Justin Elliott Last August, the Associated Press launched a series detailing how the New York Police Department has extensively investigated Muslims in New York and other states, preparing reports...
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Super Donors: Our Reading Guide to the Top 10 Super PAC Givers
by Ariel Wittenberg The coming election cycle will likely be the most expensive in history. Thanks to Citizens United and other recent court decisions, individuals, corporations and unions can make...
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Fed Shrugged Off Warnings, Let Banks Pay Shareholders Billions
by Jesse Eisinger In early November 2010, as the Federal Reserve began to weigh whether the nation’s biggest financial firms were healthy enough to return money to their shareholders, a top regulator...
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Top MuckReads: Internet Clones, AIG’s Tax-Fueled Profit and The Deadliest...
by Blair Hickman 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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NYC’s Anti-Profiling Law: ‘Not Worth Paper It’s Written On’
by Justin Elliott In July 2004, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg presided over a celebratory signing ceremony at City Hall for a new law that banned the NYPD from racial or religious profiling....
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BP Settlement Leaves Most Complex Claims Unresolved
by Abrahm Lustgarten BP’s announcement that it will pay $7.8 billion to compensate thousands of Gulf Coast residents harmed in the Deepwater Horizon disaster ends one chapter of legal wrangling over...
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Free, But Not Cleared: Ernie Lopez Comes Home
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Catherine Upin, PBS "Frontline" This story was produced in collaboration with PBS "Frontline" and NPR. Listen to NPR's All Things Considered (check local listings)....
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Law School Clinic for Pardons Planned
by Dafna Linzer This story was co-published with The Washington Post. For years, lawyers, faith-based groups and students have helped file petitions for inmates seeking to cut short lengthy prison...
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Ponying Up: How Much Have Big Banks Been Docked for the Financial Crisis?
by Cora Currier Nearly four years after the financial crisis, settlements with the big players on Wall Street keep coming out, one after the other. It can be hard to keep track of it all. So who’s...
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School of Hard Knocks: Fed Education Data Shows Racial Disparities, Unequal...
by Marian Wang Schools serving the most black and Hispanic students are less likely to offer rigorous subjects such as calculus and physics and more likely to employ teachers with only a year or two...
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