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Idaho lawmakers kill bill requiring personal financial disclosures
Idaho lawmakers shot down legislation Wednesday that would have required them to disclose their personal finances, leaving the state as just one of two holdouts remaining in the country.Idaho...
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Live chat: Money and politics in Trump's first year as president
Join the Center for Public Integrity for a Facebook live chat with our reporters, looking back at President Donald Trump's first year in office and the ways campaign finance has played a role. Tune in...
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Actions, not words, tell Trump's political money story
Donald Trump made his first and most definitive statement about campaign cash just moments after announcing his intention to run for president. It’s the one that stuck in everyone’s mind."I don't need...
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Trump the candidate vs. Trump the president: Dave Levinthal on politics and...
Senior politics reporter Dave Levinthal discussed the Center for Public Integrity's review of political money during Donald Trump's first year as president.Hear the interviews on P.O.T.U.S. (Politics...
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In the news: Susan Ferriss talks to KQED about the Dreamers from Rep. Kevin...
The Center for Public Integrity's immigration reporter, Susan Ferriss, was featured on KQED's The California Report on Jan. 19 for a Q&A on what recipients of the Dream Act from House Majority...
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Most of the EPA's pollution estimates are unreliable. So why is everyone...
Engineer Jim Southerland was hired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1971 to join the nascent war on air pollution. He came to relish the task, investigating orange clouds from an...
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Honduran boy who lost asylum bid wasn't entitled to government-appointed...
A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals three-judge panel ruled Monday that a 13-year-old Honduran boy was not entitled to the appointment of counsel during an unsuccessful asylum bid.The boy was initially...
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High-profile charities distance themselves from telemarketer following...
At least one high-profile charity has cut ties with politically connected telemarketer InfoCision — and three others are considering a split — after the Federal Trade Commission earlier this month...
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Turkey's propaganda war targets America's state capitals
A law firm hired by the government of Turkey is lobbying state officials across the U.S. about what it alleges is a suspicious network of American charter schools run by a dangerous Turkish opposition...
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Lesson of 2017: Political campaign season truly never ends
Once upon a time not terribly long ago, federal politicians more or less kept their campaigning to election years. They reserved their energies in odd-numbered, non-election years for legislating and...
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Meet the Center for Public Integrity's two new fellows
Two new fellows have joined the Center for Public Integrity, the organization’s latest investment in the next generation of journalistic talent.Fatima Bhojani is the Center’s sixth W.K. Kellogg Fellow...
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Live chat: 5G and the digital divide
If the fight over 5G poles and cells hasn’t hit your town yet, chances are it’s coming.Join the Center's senior business reporter, Allan Holmes, for a Facebook Live chat about his reporting on the...
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Trump administration’s planned nuclear upgrade is being undermined by cost...
Consolidating the management of two critical sites where nuclear weapons are assembled would yield huge taxpayer savings, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) promised in 2013 — as much...
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Did Donald Trump profit from his own presidential transition?
Trump for America, a nonprofit that raised millions of private dollars for Donald Trump’s presidential transition expenses, still hasn’t provided more than vague outlines of its spending and won’t say...
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Chairman of nuclear weapons oversight agency steps down amid internal turmoil
The chairman of a federal oversight agency responsible for safety at nuclear weapons facilities has stepped down amid turmoil over both his management and his recommendation to President Trump that the...
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Leader of Put Vets First! PAC prioritizes telemarketers and himself
The leader of a veterans-focused political action committee rapidly increased payments to himself late last year, following a Center for Public Integrity investigation into his political and charitable...
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Opioid makers paid millions to advocacy groups that promoted their...
Companies selling some of the most lucrative prescription painkillers funneled millions of dollars to advocacy groups that in turn promoted the medications’ use, according to a report released Monday...
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Patrick Malone on the Texas Standard: What happened to billions in savings...
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) promised huge taxpayer savings in 2013 by consolidating two critical sites where nuclear weapons are assembled — as much as $3.27 billion over a...
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State and federal officials accuse veterans nonprofit of misleading donors
Virginia’s attorney general has launched an investigation into a veterans charity that allegedly misled donors by spending millions of dollars on telemarketing and salaries rather than on veterans.The...
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For the EPA, ‘reform’ means giving industry what it wants
First came the smoke. The explosion hit 20 minutes later — so massive it killed 15, injured 260, damaged or destroyed 150 buildings, shattered glass a mile out and set trees ablaze. Under stadium...
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