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Capitol Hill's Uber caucus
Sen. Al Franken has “serious concerns” about Uber’s commitment to riders’ privacy, for which company executives have, in his estimation, shown “troubling disregard.”The on-demand car booking service,...
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Court case shows how health insurers rip off you and your employer
If you think you’re paying too much for employer-sponsored health coverage, you might want to forward this to the HR department. It’s possible, maybe even likely, that your health insurer has been...
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Former Energy Department official wins huge pay raise after moving to firm...
Five months after Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman resigned and left the department’s Forrestal Building in Washington, he started a new job eleven miles away as president of a troubled...
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American Chemistry Council lied about lobbying role on flame retardants,...
The chemical industry’s powerful trade group, the American Chemistry Council, has long maintained that it had nothing to do with an enormously successful but deceitful lobbying effort in state capitals...
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Virginia governor asks how to reverse schools' staggering rate of referrals...
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has asked members of his cabinet to recommend policy changes in response to a Center for Public Integrity report showing that schools in the commonwealth refer students to...
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Big money behind Kentucky's other horse race
Though the dirt at Churchill Downs has barely settled from American Pharaoh’s Derby victory, Kentuckians must pick another round of winners in Tuesday’s primary.The biggest contest is on the Republican...
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Insurers' high-deductible plans leave many without needed care
A dozen or so years ago, a small group of wealthy corporate insurance executives decided their customers were not paying nearly enough for the medical care they received. How else to explain the fact...
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Congressional proposal might only benefit firm that was subject of probe
A proposal moving through Congress that rolls back protections for mobile home buyers would almost exclusively benefit Clayton Homes, a company controlled by billionaire Warren Buffett, according to...
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Party control of Pennsylvania's high court up for grabs
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court race on Tuesday hasn’t attracted as much attention as the mayoral contest in Philadelphia.But the judicial primary, fueled by cash earned from unions and teddy bears, will...
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How Medicare Advantage investors made billions off loose government lips
The third of February 2011 was mostly a ho-hum day on Wall Street — but not for companies offering Medicare Advantage plans. Several of those firms hit the jackpot, tacking on billions of dollars in...
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Lawsuit says kids traumatized by violence have right to mental health...
California students and teachers filed a landmark lawsuit Monday arguing that kids traumatized by violence or other hardship have a basic right to school-based mental-health support that would help...
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Dershowitz persuaded Rangel to attend Netanyahu speech
Thank super lawyer Alan Dershowitz — at least in part — for Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., suddenly reversing his decision to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentiousMarch 3address to...
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Pentagon says no one should be held accountable for $34 million debacle
Camp Leatherneck in southern Afghanistan was not a particularly hospitable base for the tens of thousands of U.S. Marines and other troops who surged there towards the end of the last decade....
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Grassley to Attorney General Lynch: crack down on Medicare Advantage...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley has asked Attorney General Loretta Lynch to tighten scrutiny of Medicare Advantage health plans suspected of overcharging the government, saying...
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Fulfilling our mission
Public Integrity’s mission statement says we take on “powerful public and private institutions” with our investigative journalism. Few private institutions are more powerful and have a more beloved...
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Charlie Rangel is retiring. So why is he raising campaign cash?
Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., sure sounds like a man running for re-election.“Contribute now to support Congressman Rangel’s fight for a deal benefiting everyday Americans!” reads a May 13 fundraising...
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Bankers from major institutions still haven't been held responsible for...
Three months ago, then-Attorney General Eric Holder gave his prosecutors 90 days to determine whether they could charge individual Wall Street executives with crimes related to the 2008 financial...
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Liberal operatives paid big bucks by embattled pro-Clinton super PAC
Liberals have slammed Priorities USA Action, the pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC, for not raising enough money, but that didn’t prevent a pair of prominent Democratic operatives from scoring lucrative...
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Obamacare exchanges help, but confused consumers are still spending too much
Here’s the good news: 74 percent of people nationwide who enrolled in health insurance plans through the Obamacare exchanges rate their coverage as excellent or good. That’s according to a Kaiser...
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Meet the 'dark money' phantom
WEST CHESTER, Ohio — Just outside Cincinnati, tucked among insurance agencies, hair salons and a yoga studio, is the nexus of one of the nation’s most mysterious networks pouring secret money into...
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