The chief scientist at RStudio and developer of open source tools for data scientists on bribes, bears and where your next story is hiding. | Continue reading
Search the full text of nearly 3 million nonprofit IRS filings, including investments and grants given to other nonprofits. | Continue reading
The change comes after ProPublica highlighted the deceptive marketing practices of Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and other major tax prep companies. | Continue reading
Search the full text of nearly 3 million nonprofit IRS filings, including investments and grants given to other nonprofits. | Continue reading
In southwest Connecticut, the gap between rich and poor is wider than anywhere else in the country. Invisible walls created by local zoning boards and the state government block affordable housing and, by extension, the people who need it. | Continue reading
Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, created and promoted a “military discount” that charges service members who are eligible to file for free. | Continue reading
A private and influential legal group you’ve never heard of is about to vote on what critics call a fundamental rollback of consumer rights. | Continue reading
A dubious project raises serious questions about the world’s most prestigious consulting firm and its work for corruption-plagued regimes. | Continue reading
Today we’re releasing a new open source project, which will make web scraping easier by providing reusable components. | Continue reading
Gov. Matt Bevin has offered no solution to the boondoggle he inherited, a plan to bring high-speed internet to Kentucky’s remote corners. | Continue reading
TurboTax successfully lobbied to keep the IRS from offering free tax prep. Now it’s pretending the government already does it. | Continue reading
TurboTax successfully lobbied to keep the IRS from offering free tax prep. Now it’s pretending the government already does it. | Continue reading
How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry. | Continue reading
An internal document and current and former company employees show the companies steered customers away from the government-sponsored free option and made them pay. | Continue reading
An internal document and current and former company employees show the companies steered customers away from the government-sponsored free option and made them pay. | Continue reading
The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have known for years that Saudi diplomats were helping Saudi fugitives. But Washington avoided even raising the problem out of concern that it might hurt Saudi cooperation in the fight against terrorism. | Continue reading
The makers of TurboTax as well as H&R Block promised the IRS to offer free filing for many Americans. But they’re keeping Google from seeing it. | Continue reading
Ethics complaints against South Carolina’s circuit judges are buried in an opaque system that shields the accused. | Continue reading
The makers of TurboTax as well as H&R Block promised the IRS to offer free filing for many Americans. But they’re keeping Google from seeing it. | Continue reading
Come along as we try to file our taxes for free on TurboTax! | Continue reading
Trump’s business deal was bigger, lasted longer and fueled more secrecy than we knew before. | Continue reading
Six years after it was excoriated for allegedly targeting conservative organizations, the agency has largely given up on regulating an entire category of nonprofits. The result: More dark money gushes into the political system. | Continue reading
The full-body scanners at airports across the country frequently give false alarms for Afros, braids, twists and other hairstyles popular among black women. | Continue reading
On Wednesday, the Navy said it was abandoning all remaining criminal charges against sailors involved in fatal accidents in the Pacific. Here’s how the actions of the chief of naval operations helped doom the cases. | Continue reading
Few taxpayers use the Free File system — intended to help moderate- and low-income filers — and that benefits companies like Intuit and H&R Block. Now Congress is moving to make the program permanent. | Continue reading
A bill supported by Democrats and Republicans would make permanent a program that bars the IRS from ever developing its own online tax filing service. | Continue reading
A bill supported by Democrats and Republicans would make permanent a program that bars the IRS from ever developing its own online tax filing service. | Continue reading
Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation’s wealthiest people. But with big money — and Congress — arrayed against the team, it never had a chance. | Continue reading
Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation’s wealthiest people. But with big money — and Congress — arrayed against the team, it never had a chance. | Continue reading
In moving to shield minors, the judge weighs a challenge to the First Amendment right to publish. | Continue reading
Google is the latest tech company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online ad tracking and user’s names. | Continue reading
Secret portions of a lawsuit allege that Purdue Pharma, controlled by the Sackler family, considered capitalizing on the addiction treatment boom — while going to extreme lengths to boost sales of its controversial opioid. | Continue reading
Our tool had let the public see exactly how users were being targeted by advertisers. The social media giant urged us to shut it down last year. | Continue reading
Our tool had let the public see exactly how users were being targeted by advertisers. The social media giant urged us to shut it down last year. | Continue reading
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. | Continue reading
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. | Continue reading
A long-standing effort to make big investment funds abide by the same rules that banks and brokerages follow has bogged down. The fund industry says it supports the rules — it just has a few quibbles. | Continue reading
After I was prescribed a brand-name drug I didn’t need and given a coupon to cover the out-of-pocket costs, I discovered another reason Americans pay too much for health care. | Continue reading
The makers of TurboTax and other online systems spent millions lobbying last year, much of it directed toward a bill that would permanently bar the government from offering taxpayers prefilled filings. | Continue reading
The bureau’s image unit has linked defendants to crime photographs for decades using unproven techniques and baseless statistics. Studies have begun to raise doubts about the unit’s methods. | Continue reading
Reporters across the country are brimming with ideas for great stories to investigate. All they lack is time and support. | Continue reading
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. | Continue reading
The Virginia city has one of the widest achievement gaps in the U.S., and a ProPublica/New York Times analysis shows that white students there are about four times as likely as black students to be considered gifted. | Continue reading
A new data analysis by ProPublica and the Urban Institute shows more than half of older U.S. workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they choose to retire, suffering financial damage that is often irreversible. | Continue reading
If you claim the earned income tax credit, whose average recipient makes less than $20,000 a year, you’re more likely to face IRS scrutiny than someone making twenty times as much. How a benefit for the working poor was turned against them. | Continue reading
As the inaugural committee planned the landmark celebration, internal concerns were raised about whether Trump’s Washington hotel was overcharging for event space. The spending could be a violation of the law. | Continue reading
As the inaugural committee planned the landmark celebration, internal concerns were raised about whether Trump’s Washington hotel was overcharging for event space. The spending could be a violation of the law. | Continue reading
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. | Continue reading