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Sealing Loose Lips: Charting Obama’s Crackdown on National Security Leaks
A timeline of the Obama administration’s aggressive campaign against government leakers.
Top MuckReads: Aging Reactors and Summer Camp Sex Offenders
The most damning journalism of the past week.
Announcing Simpler Tiles
Today, we're releasing Ruby bindings for Simple Tiles, so you can generate tiles from Ruby.
When the GOP Tried to Ban Dark Money
For a brief moment a decade ago, it was Republicans who wanted disclosure of anonymous political donations that Democrats now decry.
What the Frack is in That Water?
Environmentalists have repeatedly pressed regulators to compel oil and gas companies to report what chemicals they use in the drilling and fracking process. No one knows the exact makeup of the frack mixture or drilling muds, but this list breaks down the main ingredients revealed so far.
Reverse-Engineering Obama’s Message Machine
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: Reverse Engineering an Obama Email Campaign
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.
School of Hard Knocks: Fed Education Data Shows Racial Disparities, Unequal Opportunity
Department of Education releases wide range of data on schools. ProPublica will clean, cross-check, and incorporate into our interactive schools app.
Ponying Up: How Much Have Big Banks Been Docked for the Financial Crisis?
Nearly four years after the financial crisis, settlements with the big players on Wall Street keep coming out, one after the other. It can be hard to keep track of it all. So who’s been hit, with what, and for how much in total?
Law School Clinic for Pardons Planned
Spurred by findings in a ProPublica investigation, former Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich pushes for a program to address inequities in the pardons process.
Free, But Not Cleared: Ernie Lopez Comes Home
The case of an Amarillo man, released from prison last week, reflects a larger controversy over the reliability of scientific evidence in child death cases.
BP Settlement Leaves Most Complex Claims Unresolved
BP has agreed to pay $7.8 billion to compensate Gulf Coast residents damaged in a massive 2010 oil spill, but the company still faces a criminal investigation and a battery of state lawsuits and federal claims
NYC’s Anti-Profiling Law: ‘Not Worth Paper It’s Written On’
A law signed by Mayor Bloomberg bars profiling by police based on religion. So, why hasn’t there been an investigation of the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslims?
