When Are 190 Emails Like Six Emails?

March 8, 12:30 p.m.

Message Machine: Reverse Engineering an Obama Email Campaign

March 6, 6:34 p.m.

Campaigns are increasingly tailoring their messages—and their funding requests—using massive databases of personal information about potential voters. Here are six variations of a Thursday night message from the Obama campaign, based on emails submitted by 190 recipients across the country.

Reverse-Engineering Obama’s Message Machine

March 6, 6:34 p.m.

How different are a campaign’s emails to different voters? President Obama’s re-election campaign tried at least six different messages sent on behalf of campaign deputy manager Julianna Smoot in an email blast last week.

Message Machine: “You Probably Don’t Know Janet”

March 6, 6:29 p.m.

Campaigns are increasingly tailoring their messages — and their funding requests — using massive databases of personal information about potential voters. [LINK TO POST] Here are six variations of a Thursday night message from the Obama campaign, based on emails submitted by 190 recipients across the country. Click a tab to select an email. Then hover over the other tabs to compare your selection to the others.

Introducing Simple Tiles: Our New Mapping Library

Feb. 13, 1:14 p.m.

Anatomy of a Stepper Graphic

Jan. 30, 5:10 p.m.

A small library for stepper graphics.

Answering Your Questions on Our California Redistricting Story

Dec. 23, 2011, 8 p.m.

We answer your questions about our California redistricting story.

Rep. Jerry McNerney’s District

Dec. 21, 2011, 7:45 p.m.

Democrats recognized that they could protect Jerry McNerney from being redistricted out of office by the Citizen’s Redistricting Commission.

California Redistricting Commission Emails

Dec. 21, 2011, 4:39 p.m.

California Redistricting Commission Meeting Transcripts

Dec. 21, 2011, 4:39 p.m.

California Redistricting Commission Public Comments

Dec. 21, 2011, 4:39 p.m.

Map: A Tale of Two Districts

Dec. 21, 2011, 4:39 p.m.

How Democrats Fooled California’s Redistricting Commission

Dec. 21, 2011, 4:38 p.m.

To get the districts they wanted, Democrats organized groups that said they represented communities, but really represented the party.

Redistricting, a Devil’s Dictionary

Nov. 2, 2011, 10:08 a.m.

Redistricting is a hard-knuckled game, in which voters often lose. Here are the colorful, and telling, terms used by insiders.

Fair Districts Mass Proposals

Sept. 23, 2011, 7:41 p.m.

Fair Districts Mass says it is an independent group seeking better representation for minorities, but it has proposed maps that call its motives into question.

Florida’s 3rd Congressional District

Sept. 23, 2011, 7:36 p.m.

Congresswoman Corrine Brown, an African-American Democrat from Florida, represents one of the most irregularly shaped districts in the nation.

The Hidden Hands in Redistricting: Corporations and Other Powerful Interests

Sept. 23, 2011, 10:03 a.m.

Opaque redistricting groups are being quietly bankrolled by corporations, unions and others. They are working not to help voters in the communities they claim to represent but to improve the prospects of their political allies or to harm their enemies.

The Opportunity Gap

June 30, 2011, 9:22 a.m.

ProPublica analyzed new data from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights along with other federal education data to examine whether states provide students equal access.

Search the Fed’s Documents Detailing Their Lending to Banks During the Crisis

April 7, 2011, 8:45 a.m.

Last week, the Federal Reserve released a cache of several thousand pages detailing its support of financial institutions during the financial crisis. The documents, released due to a Freedom of Information Act request,  include the Fed’s lending through its so-called discount window, its oldest lending program of last resort.