November 2012 Archive
High-Prescribing Chicago Psychiatrist Faces Federal Fraud Suit
Dr. Michael Reinstein, subject of a 2009 investigation by ProPublica and The Chicago Tribune, is accused of taking kickbacks while providing antipsychotics to thousands of indigent nursing home patients.
Are You a U.S. Military Vet Who Can't Obtain War Records? Tell Us Your Story
ProPublica is interested in hearing from Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who have had difficulty locating their field records.
BP Agrees to Plead Guilty to Crimes in Gulf Oil Spill
The Justice Department indicts three BP managers for their roles in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and its aftermath. The company also will pay a $4.5 billion fine, the largest ever levied on a corporation.
TSA X-Ray Body Scanners Sit Idle in Warehouse
The Transportation Security Administration removed X-ray body scanners from major airports, planning to shift them to smaller airports. But many of the backscatters sit in a warehouse as the agency looks into whether the manufacturer, Rapiscan Systems, falsified software tests.
What Effect, If Any, Did Voter ID Laws Have on the Election?
Dealt early defeats in court, the laws’ actual impact on voters remains an open question
Pipeline Safety Tracker
Every year the nation's oil and natural gas pipelines suffer hundreds of ruptures and spills. We map major pipeline accidents from 1986 to the present.
Pipelines Explained: How Safe are America's 2.5 Million Miles of Pipelines?
While pipelines are generally regarded as safe, critics blame insufficient oversight and old pipes for the hundreds of accidents that occur every year. We explain how pipelines fail.
Education Department Adopts Crucial Reform for Disabled Borrowers
After our investigation and public pressure, the department has conducted a sweeping overhaul of its troubled disability review program.
Was Petraeus Borked?
When a D.C. video store revealed the Supreme Court nominee’s list of video rentals, it sparked a privacy backlash and a new law. Similarly, the Petraeus affair has put the government’s vast surveillance powers – even of elites – in a critical context.
What We Learned from Free the Files -- and How to Make It Better
After spending months digging through the tens of thousands of documents the country's television stations uploaded as part of our Free the Files project, we look back on what we learned and how to make it better.
No, Obama Isn’t About to Crack Down on Wall Street
Obama sweeps into his second term with real advantages, including stronger appointees and more senators on his side. But the problems run so deep that he is unlikely to solve them.
P5 Project Application
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Pair Programming Participant #1: Julius Troeger
On Monday the first participant in the ProPublica Pair Programming Project started. He is Julius Troeger from Germany.
Ask Peter Sleeth Anything about Missing Iraq, Afghanistan Field Records (Reddit Chat)
Over the last decade, the U.S. military has destroyed or failed to keep millions of field records from Iraq and Afghanistan. Join reporter Peter Sleeth for a discussion on the missing documents.
Mapping Segregation in Westchester
ProPublica decided to evaluate race and income data for Westchester County to determine whether income alone accounts for the high degree of racial segregation experienced by African Americans there.
Outside Groups Dominated Las Vegas Airwaves in 2012 Campaign
An analysis of political ad files in our Free the Files database found spending by dark money nonprofit Crossroads GPS and its affiliate super PAC rivaled spending by the Obama and Romney campaigns combined.
A Son Lost in Iraq, but Where Is the Casualty Report?
To fulfill a promise he made to his son, Jim Butler needed to know how he died. But when he asked how 24-year-old Jake Butler was killed, the Army couldn’t produce a report from the field describing what happened.
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