Prescriber Checkup

May 11, 9:10 p.m.

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.

Medicare Drug Program Fails to Monitor Prescribers, Putting Seniors and Disabled at Risk

May 11, 9:06 p.m.

Prescription data obtained by ProPublica shows wide use of antipsychotics, narcotics and other drugs dangerous for older adults, but Medicare officials say it’s not their job to look for unsafe prescribing or weed out doctors with troubled backgrounds.

Eight Ways to Strengthen Medicare’s Drug Benefit

May 11, 8:54 p.m.

Former government officials, analysts and researchers say Medicare could improve oversight of its Part D drug benefit with these steps.

Has Obama Kept His Open-Government Pledge?

Feb. 11, 8 a.m.

In his first term, President Obama promised that government would “do business in the light of day,” but skeptics say the record is mixed.

At Some Schools, Achievement Lags Behind Opportunity

Jan. 24, 3:07 p.m.

Data show that, in some states, Advanced Placement exam passing rates remain lower in schools with more poor students.

Find Voting Rights Violations in Nursing Homes

Nov. 5, 2012, 9:50 a.m.

Not all long-term care residents get to exercise their right to vote. Dozens of nursing homes have violated residents’ voting rights. Find out more using our Nursing Home Inspect database.

Updated: Dialysis Facility Tracker

April 17, 2012, 10 a.m.

ProPublica obtained data about the performance of more than 5,000 U.S. dialysis clinics. Our Dialysis Facility Tracker allows patients to compare clinics on such measures as patient survival, infection control, hospitalization rates and transplant rates.

Updated Recovery Tracker

Feb. 13, 2012, 10:30 a.m.

Once again, we’ve taken all the data used on the government’s stimulus Web site, Recovery.gov, spiffed it up and added thousands of other recovery spending records — the law doesn’t require all recipients to report to Recovery.gov.

How ProPublica Analyzed Pardon Data

Dec. 3, 2011, 11 p.m.

Presidential Pardons Heavily Favor Whites

Dec. 3, 2011, 11 p.m.

To avoid repeating a scandal like his predecessor’s, George W. Bush gave career lawyers in the Justice Department far-reaching authority to choose who got presidential pardons. The result: Whites are nearly four times as likely as minorities to win a pardon, even when the type of crime and severity of sentence are taken into account.

Parsing Presidential Pardons

Dec. 3, 2011, 11 p.m.

Government Cans Proposal to Hide Records

Nov. 4, 2011, 8:01 a.m.

Controversial FOIA proposal would have allowed the government to say certain records didn’t exist, even if they did. The Department of Justice has pulled that proposal.

Government Could Hide Existence of Records under FOIA Rule Proposal

Oct. 24, 2011, 9:26 a.m.

A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do.

Buckeye State is Longtime Leader in Breakaway Beasts

Oct. 19, 2011, 5:28 p.m.

Ohio doesn’t regulate ownership of wild animals, so the release of dangerous animals isn’t new.

The Opportunity Gap

June 30, 2011, 8:22 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.

Some States Still Leave Low-Income Students Behind; Others Make Surprising Gains

June 30, 2011, 8 a.m.

A ProPublica analysis shows Florida stands out where many other states, like Kansas, fall short.

Methodology on Our Educational Opportunity Project: About the Data and Our Analysis

June 30, 2011, 7:59 a.m.

Villages Testify to Disparity in Benefits Alaska Native Corporations Provide

March 17, 2011, 8:55 a.m.

Congress created the system of Alaska Native Corporations with the promise of bringing prosperity to a scattered indigenous population stuck in poverty. The corporations have created pockets of success but not a wide-scale solution for joblessness and substance abuse.

Slideshow: The Villages That Depend on ANCs

March 16, 2011, 2:29 p.m.

Congress created the system of Alaska Native Corporations with the promise of bringing prosperity to a scattered indigenous population stuck in poverty. Decades later, the villages of Chenega Bay, Akiak and Napaskiak testify
to the broad gap in benefits ANCs provide.