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.

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

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.

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.

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.

ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen interviews Deadspin's Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey about breaking the story of the three hoaxes involving college football player Manti Te'o.

For our first MuckReads podcast of 2013, we invited New York Times reporter David Barstow to talk to our editor Steve Engelberg about his investigation into how Wal-Mart used bribery to expand their business operations in Mexico.

Abrahm Lustgarten discusses what his story on companies releasing toxic materials into underground aquifers means for your drinking water, the long-term ramifications for drought-affected areas like Texas, and why the exemptions were enacted in the first place.