IRS Gutted: Good news for corporations and the wealthy

An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy. | Continue reading


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How the IRS Was Gutted - ProPublica

An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy. | Continue reading


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How the More Than Me Charity Gamed the Internet and Hollywood to Win $1M

Katie Meyler’s gambit involved a Silicon Valley darling, payments to a social media marketer in Pakistan and a broken promise to a philanthropist with some very famous friends. | Continue reading


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New York prosecutors were preparing a case. Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.  | Continue reading


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Law enforcement's inaction on discovery of Neo-Nazi cell via Atomwaffen insider

Some experts and former officials see the case as part of a larger pattern, evidence that federal agencies are understaffed and out of position in confronting the threat of white supremacist terrorism — even as the FBI’s latest report shows a spike in hate crimes for the third st … | Continue reading


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You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make the Old Adage Literally True

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You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make the Old Adage Literally True

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You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make The Old Adage Literally True - ProPublica

Millions of sleep apnea patients rely on CPAP breathing machines to get a good night’s rest. Health insurers use a variety of tactics, including surveillance, to make patients bear the costs. Experts say it’s part of the insurance industry playbook. | Continue reading


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You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make the Old Adage Literally True

Millions of sleep apnea patients rely on CPAP breathing machines to get a good night’s rest. Health insurers use a variety of tactics, including surveillance, to make patients bear the costs. Experts say it’s part of the insurance industry playbook. | Continue reading


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The Strange Case of American Diplomats in Cuba

Trump officials insist the Americans were attacked, even as the evidence fails to materialize. “The Cuba thing is one of the few unsolved mysteries we’ve got,” an official said. | Continue reading


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Georgia Officials Quietly Patched Security Holes They Said Didn't Exist - ProPublica

A ProPublica analysis found that the state was busily fixing problems in its voter registration hours after the office of Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, had insisted the system was secure. | Continue reading


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A ProPublica analysis found that the state was busily fixing problems in its voter registration hours after the office of Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, had insisted the system was secure. | Continue reading


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How Congress Stopped Working

Today’s legislative branch, far from the model envisioned by the founders, is dominated by party leaders and functions as a junior partner to the executive, according to an analysis by The Washington Post and ProPublica. | Continue reading


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How Congress Stopped Working - ProPublica

Today’s legislative branch, far from the model envisioned by the founders, is dominated by party leaders and functions as a junior partner to the executive, according to an analysis by The Washington Post and ProPublica. | Continue reading


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File-Sharing Software on State Election Servers Could Expose Them to Intruders

A ProPublica analysis found election computer servers in Wisconsin and Kentucky could be susceptible to hacking. Wisconsin shut down its service in response to our inquiries. | Continue reading


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How Big Oil Dodges Facebook’s New Ad Transparency Rules

We’ve identified 12 ad campaigns in which energy, insurance and other industries masked their sponsorship of political messages on Facebook. | Continue reading


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Chicago Lakeshore Hospital Is Under Fire Over Reports

Aurora Chicago Lakeshore Hospital is under federal and state investigation over reports that detail sexual assaults and physical abuse of children, including some who were cleared for release but remained hospitalized because child welfare officials couldn’t find more appropriate … | Continue reading


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A Surgeon So Bad It Was Criminal

Christopher Duntsch’s surgical outcomes were so outlandishly poor that Texas prosecuted him for harming patients. Why did it take so long for the systems that are supposed to police problem doctors to stop him from operating? | Continue reading


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The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going

The hedge fund Magnetar helped create mortgage-based securities, pushed for risky things to go inside them and then bet against the investments, resulting in billions in losses for investors and ultimately making the financial crisis worse. It’s a story of the perverse incentives … | Continue reading


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After Budget Cuts, the IRS’ Work Against Tax Cheats Is Facing “Collapse”

Audits and criminal referrals are down sharply since Congress cut the tax agency’s budget and management changed priorities. | Continue reading


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Racist, violent, unpunished: A white hate group's campaign of menace - ProPublica

They train to fight. They post their beatings online. And so far, they have little reason to fear the authorities. | Continue reading


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News Applications Developer - ProPublica

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Did You Go to a Washington Nationals Game with Brett Kavanaugh?

Trump’s pick is a baseball fan who racked up considerable debt buying season tickets. Help us figure out who went with the nominated judge. | Continue reading


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Did You Go to a Washington Nationals Game With Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh? - ProPublica

Trump’s pick is a baseball fan who racked up considerable debt buying season tickets. Help us figure out who went with the nominated judge. | Continue reading


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Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men - ProPublica

A review by ProPublica found that 15 employers in the past year, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex, with many of the ads playing to stereotypes. | Continue reading


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Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men

A review by ProPublica found that 15 employers in the past year, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex, with many of the ads playing to stereotypes. | Continue reading


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Authorities Can Deny Visa/GC Applications Witho Giving a Chance to Fix Errors

Immigration lawyers call the policy change, which kicks in today, another brick in Trump’s “invisible wall” to make legal immigration as difficult as possible. | Continue reading


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Shedding Some Light on Dark Money Political Donors - ProPublica

Political nonprofits don’t have to disclose the names of their donors. But thanks to a good-government group, you can now find out about nearly $763 million in donations to these “dark money” organizations. | Continue reading


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How Struggling Dayton, Ohio, Reveals the Chasm Among American Cities

As a ProPublica/Frontline documentary shows, the economic and social gaps among cities are growing as dramatic as the gaps between urban and rural areas. | Continue reading


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How Do We Verify Anonymous Sources?

Very, very carefully, and only after making sure they merit anonymity. | Continue reading


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How the Trump Administration Went Easy on Small-Town Police Abuses - ProPublica

The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana — where officers jail witnesses to crimes — could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother. | Continue reading


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No, a Teen Did Not Hack a State Election

Hacking conference organizers said kids had hacked “exact clones” of state election reporting websites, but that didn’t happen. | Continue reading


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Download Chicago’s Parking Ticket Data Yourself

For the first time, the city’s database, which tracks more than 28 million parking and vehicle compliance tickets, is easily available to the public. | Continue reading


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The Shadow Rulers of the VA

How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago cronies are secretly shaping the Trump administration’s veterans policies. | Continue reading


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The Shadow Rulers of the VA - ProPublica

How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago cronies are secretly shaping the Trump administration’s veterans policies. | Continue reading


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Why Russian Spies Really Like American Universities

If the charges against Maria Butina are accurate, she’s only the latest in a long line of Russian agents to go undercover on U.S. campuses. | Continue reading


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How Denmark Dumped Medical Malpractice and Improved Patient Safety (2015)

In the U.S., patients harmed during medical care have few avenues for redress. The Danes chose to forget about fault and focus on what’s fair. | Continue reading


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How the EPA and the Pentagon Downplayed a Growing Toxic Threat

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Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You–And It Could Raise Your Rates

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Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You–And It Could Raise Your Rates

Without any public scrutiny, insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about things like race, marital status, how much TV you watch, whether you pay your bills on time or even buy plus-size clothing. | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 6 years ago

Undercooked: An Expensive Push to Save Lives and Protect the Planet Falls Short

Millions of lives were at stake. Hillary Clinton was on board. Money poured in. And yet the big aims behind an effort to tackle the plague of third-world cooking fires has produced only modest gains. | Continue reading


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How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load 1.4GB Of… – ProPublica

We’ve open-sourced our code for loading Illinois campaign finance data. The process used to take hours. Learn how Make helped cut that down to less than 30 minutes. | Continue reading


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"I Just Want to Tell My Son I Love Him" - ProPublica

Parents held in immigration detention without their kids say the phones barely work and they still don’t know when they will see their children again, almost two weeks after the Trump administration declared it ended family separation at the border. | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 6 years ago

FDA Repays Industry by Rushing Risky Drugs to Market

As pharma companies underwrite three-fourths of the FDA’s budget for scientific reviews, the agency is increasingly fast-tracking expensive drugs with significant side effects and unproven health benefits. | Continue reading


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I've Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year. Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong. - ProPublica

The gang is not invading the country. They’re not posing as fake families. They’re not growing. To stop them, the government needs to understand them. | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 6 years ago

The EPA Underestimated Dangers of Widespread Chemicals

The CDC has quietly published a controversial review of perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, that indicates more people are at risk of drinking contaminated water than previously thought. | Continue reading


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Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated from Their Parents at the Border

ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” | Continue reading


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Listen to Children Who've Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border - ProPublica

ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” | Continue reading


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