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Regulation

The Efforts to Keep Industry in Check

429 stories published since 2009

Behind the Scenes, Health Insurers Use Cash and Gifts to Sway Which Benefits Employers Choose

Why Aren’t Hedge Funds Required to Fight Money Laundering?

How Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost

Do You Know Someone Struggling With Video Gambling? ​Help Us Understand Video Slot and Poker Addiction in Illinois.

How We Analyzed Video Gambling in Illinois

How the Trash Industry Worked Overtime Trying to Thwart New York City’s Reform Plans

How a Consultant Said He Gamed HUD Inspections: Sweep Problems Behind a Wall

Who’s More Likely to Be Audited: A Person Making $20,000 — or $400,000?

How the IRS Was Gutted

“Pretty Much a Failure”: HUD Inspections Pass Dangerous Apartments Filled With Rats, Roaches and Toxic Mold

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

Facing Crisis, Sloan Kettering Tells Exec to Hand Over Profits From Biotech

HUD Long Neglected These Residents. Now As They Move Out, Some Feel HUD Let Them Down Again.

As Conservative Group Grows In Influence, Financial Dealings Enrich Its Leaders

After a Sweet Deal With Dad, Eric Trump Assembles a Valuable Penthouse

The Billion-Dollar Loophole

Trump’s Dark Deregulation

Watchdog Group Calls for Reform to Cook County Assessor’s Office

Lawsuit Targets Berrios Over Unfair, Error-Riddled Assessments

How the Cook County Assessor Failed Taxpayers

How We Analyzed Commercial and Industrial Property Assessments in Chicago and Cook County

Seven Ways Patients Can Protect Themselves From Outrageous Medical Bills

Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race

Despite Trump Campaign Promise, Billionaires’ Tax Loophole Survives Again

Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud

The ‘International Man of Mystery’ Linked to Flynn’s Lobbying Deal

Many ‘Rent-Stabilized’ NYC Apartments Are Not Really Stabilized. See Where They Are.

New York Landlords Exploit Loophole to Hike Rents Despite Freeze

Tom Price Intervened on Rule That Would Hurt Drug Profits, the Same Day He Acquired Drug Stock

Corning’s Glass Brimming With Taxpayer Subsidies

Fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Said to Have Been Investigating HHS Secretary Tom Price

There’s No Guarantee Trump’s Tax Returns Would Reveal Russia Ties

These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers

How a Tip About Habitat for Humanity Became a Story

The American Way

Amazon Says It Puts Customers First. But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn’t

Fire Fight

The Fire Sprinkler War, State by State

‘On Like Donkey Kong’: How a Dubious Super PAC Boosted a Questionable Penny Stock

How Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn and Poor Families Lost Their Homes

How Philanthropist David Rubenstein Helped Save a Tax Break Billionaires Love

The Executive Pay Cap That Backfired

How to Vet Nonprofits Before You Give

The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods

Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law

Behind Christie’s Budget Claims, a More Controversial Legacy

Housing Enforcement Group Sues M&T Bank for Discrimination

Firestone and the Warlord: Money and Menace

Inside the New York Fed: Secret Recordings and a Culture Clash

How Tobacco Bonds Work, and What Can Go Wrong