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Jeff Larson is a News Applications developer at ProPublica. He is a winner of the Livingston Award for the 2011 series Redistricting: How Powerful Interests are Drawing You Out of a Vote. Previously, he was the Online Director at The Nation where he coordinated the magazine's editorial and business activities on the web during the 2008 political season..

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New Maps and a New Plan for New York

FEMA’s released new, preliminary flood insurance maps for New York City, which specify how likely areas are to flood. The new maps, which replace maps that used data from 1983, double the number of structures in flood zones.

How We Analyzed Medicare’s Drug Data

ProPublica obtained Medicare Part D data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Freedom of Information Act. Here follows more information about the data and how we analyzed it.

Prescriber Checkup

Medicare’s popular prescription-drug program now serves more than 35 million people, but the names of prescribers and the drugs they choose have never previously been public. Use this tool to find and compare doctors and other top prescribers in 2010.

An Exchange About California’s Redistricting Process

An exchange between ProPublica and the California Redistricting Commission.

RIP EveryBlock

EveryBlock is gone, here’s how we archive our apps.

Updated: State Gas Drilling Regulatory Staff Tracker

How big is the natural gas drilling regulatory staff in your state?

How Disaster Aid Recipients Voted on Sandy Relief

Though the Sandy relief bill passed both the Senate and the House, many members of Congress voted no despite their own states receiving millions of dollars in federal disaster assistance in 2012.

Housing Segregation: The Great Migration and Beyond

Explore the great migration of African Americans from 1940 to 2000 and segregation in Northern cities.

Anatomy of a News Map

Behind the scenes on our great migration graphic.

Iraq Blocks Syria’s Request to Fetch Combat Helicopters from Russia

Mystery solved. Syria had requested to ferry attack helicopters from Russia over Iraq, but the flights hadn’t happened. Now, the Iraqis say they denied permission.

To Retrieve Attack Helicopters from Russia, Syria Asks Iraq for Help, Documents Show

Documents show that Syria asked Iraqi
authorities to grant air access to fly in refurbished attack helicopters from
Russia, putting a spotlight on Iraq’s role in the nearly two-year conflict.

Syria Claims Turkey Committed ‘Air Piracy,’ New Documents Say

Hackers with the online group Anonymous posted new documents giving Syria’s version of how Turkey impounded a Syrian Arab Airlines passenger jet last month. The documents could not be authenticated.

Flight Records Say Russia Sent Syria Tons of Cash

The records of overflight requests show more than 200 tons of “bank notes” from Moscow to Damascus.

New Open Source Project: Daybreak, a Simple Key/Value Database for Ruby

A couple of weeks ago, in an article about the science behind the Message Machine project, we mentioned the custom key-value store we built to store non-relational data. Today, we’re open sourcing the library which we’re calling Daybreak.

Message Machine: Tracking Political Targeting

Political campaigns send many variations of each email to supporters. We’ve been collecting emails from political campaigns and tracking the variations. You can be a part of this project by forwarding political emails you get to emails@messagemachine.propublica.org.

How ProPublica’s Message Machine Reverse Engineers Political Microtargeting

How the message machine works.

Message Machine Starts Providing Answers

Political campaigns use massive databases to target their constituents. ProPublica’s Message Machine is beginning to find some answers on how they do it.

Campaign Email Overload? We’ve Got a Website for That

The political conventions are upon us, and with them a new flood of campaign emails. ProPublica debuts a new campaign emails Tumblr.

Explore Hundreds of Campaign Emails in the Message Machine

Today we’re opening up the political campaign emails we have collected from our readers.

Message Machine Update: A Cameo by Sheldon Adelson

On Saturday the Obama campaign sent an email to supporters mentioning Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who has donated millions to Republican super PACs.

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