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Podcast: NSA Surveillance and Intelligence Gathering

In the face of claims that the National Security Agency’s data collection program had prevented terrorist plots, ProPublica’s Sebastian Rotella took a closer look at one of those: David Coleman Headley’s foiled plan to attack a Danish newspaper.

Podcast: The Story Behind Investigating Internships

ProPublica's editor-in-chief Steve Engelberg sat down with ProPublica’s community editor Blair Hickman and news application fellow Jeremy Merrill to talk about our unique approach to investigating the intern economy.

Podcast: What’s Up With the Banks?

ProPublica's editor-in-chief Steve Engelberg sits down with senior reporter and "The Trade" columnist Jesse Eisinger to talk about what's wrong with banks being so big.

Podcast: ProPublica and the IRS Scandal

ProPublica editor-in-chief Steve Engelberg sat down with Kim Barker to talk about the burgeoning IRS scandal and ProPublica’s role in it.

Podcast: What Should the FDA Do When Drug Tests Are Tainted?

Rob Garver and Charles Seife join the podcast to discuss their recent story of how the Food and Drug Administration found a lab in Houston, Texas, that had provided the agency with drug tests tainted by "egregious" research misconduct.

Podcast: When Prosecutors Mishandle Cases, Everyone Pays…Except For Them

Prosecutorial misconduct can have devastating consequences for defendants and their families, but the prosecutors themselves rarely receive any disciplinary action. Steve Engelberg and Joaquin Sapien discuss ProPublica's latest investigation into this flawed and tragic system.

Podcast: Is Intuit Making It Harder to Do Your Taxes?

Free, simple tax returns are already a reality in much of Europe. Why hasn’t the U.S. adopted this system?

Podcast: The Facts Behind the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Case

Steve Engelberg and Nikole Hannah-Jones discuss the Fisher v. University of Texas case currently before the Supreme Court and how the agenda is much broader than the use of race in college admissions.

MuckReads Podcast: Inside Washington Rule-Making, AKA ‘The Seventh Circle of Bureaucratic Hell’

The cover story in the current issue of the Washington Monthly by Haley Sweetland Edwards delves into what sounds like a dull subject — the federal “rule-making” process — and manages to make it exciting.

Podcast: Steve Brill on Healthcare and the Media in America

Podcast: ProPublica Explores Patient Safety

ProPublica's Marshall Allen, Olga Pierce and Blair Hickman walk us through their ongoing series on patient safety, and how it's essentially inverted the investigative process by incorporating community and crowdsourcing efforts long before they've published a single traditional story.

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