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Test your money-in-politics IQ
You might think you're a political savant, boasting a brain brimming with knowledge of this month's every governmental and electioneering twist and turn.Here's your chance to prove it, smarty....
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Reform in Costa Rica signals new strategy against lethal epidemic
In an unprecedented measure to combat a deadly kidney disease that is devastating agricultural workers in Central America, the president of Costa Rica announced a national regulation to limit heat...
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9 things to know about Jim Gilmore
Long odds aren’t keeping Republican Jim Gilmore out of the 2016 presidential race.The former Virginia governor, who has already made multiple visits to the crucial early-voting state of New Hampshire,...
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Why is an obscure Montana company one of John Kasich's biggest boosters?
A group backing Republican John Kasich‘s presidential aspirations received $500,000 in seed money from a seemingly odd source, according to documents filed today: an obscure limited liability company...
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Super PAC doppelgangers eclipse candidates in campaign money chase
Presidential super PACs operating expansive shadow campaigns — buying ads, hosting town hall meetings and hiring canvassers — have raised more than twice as much money as the candidates themselves,...
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Virginia pursuing school policing reforms following Center probe
Potentially sweeping school police reforms are taking hold in Virginia, a state that was the focus of an investigation last April by the Center for Public Integrity and Reveal radio. The investigation...
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Fighter’s capture spells trouble for U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State
Gaziantep, Turkey– Lieutenant Farhan al-Jassem is not a reluctant soldier, but sadness lurked behind his smile and deep brown eyes when he talked about the last two and half years he spent trying to...
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Limits unclear on new political party 'slush funds'
The Democratic and Republican parties certainly don’t agree on how to run the country, but they are in sync when it comes to capitalizing on a new law letting them raise eight times as much money from...
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How we acquired and analyzed data for "Environmental Justice, Denied"
As part of our investigation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Civil Rights, we submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the agency asking for complaint and resolution...
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Decades of inaction
Yue Qiuhttp://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/yue-qiuTalia Bufordhttp://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/talia-bufordhttp://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/08/03/17726/decades-inaction
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Privatizing Medicare would create more problems than it solves
Republicans have long dreamed of finding a way to either privatize or get rid of Medicare, a program that has provided access to health care for well over 100 million Americans since it was created in...
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Environmental racism persists, and the EPA is one reason why
August 3, 2015: This story has been clarified.The invasion of sewer flies moved residents of University Place subdivision to turn to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for help. Darting from a...
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5 things to know about Mississippi's primary
Mississippi is one of the few states this year where voters face a full ballot from governor to state legislators.But Tuesday’s primary isn’t going to offer them many hot races.Familiar names of...
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Broken audit promises
Chris Zubak-Skeeshttp://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/chris-zubak-skeesJulia Hartehttp://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/julia-hartehttp://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/08/03/17765/broken-audit-promises
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Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions
Defense Department officials celebrated after their auditor certified that the Marine Corps had successfully accounted for all the money it received and spent in 2012. They said it was a key milestone...
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Can Joe Biden raise enough money to be a contender?
If Vice President Joe Biden decides to mount a 2016 presidential bid, his chances will rest heavily on his ability to raise enormous sums of money, something that he has not exactly excelled at in...
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'Big Oil, Bad Air' wins environmental journalism award
The Center for Public Integrity’s “Big Oil, Bad Air” project, a collaboration with InsideClimate News and the Weather Channel on toxic air emissions in Texas shale fields, has won the Society of...
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Obamacare research institute plans to spend $3.5 billion, but critics...
On the 9th floor of a glassy high rise in downtown Washington, partitions are coming down to make more room for workers handing out billions of dollars in Obamacare-funded research awards.Business has...
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Top defense contractors spend millions to get billions
The Pentagon’s top contractors sent an army of more than 400 lobbyists to Capitol Hill this spring to press their case for increasing the nation’s spending on military hardware, in a massive effort...
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Thirty miles from Selma, a different kind of civil rights struggle
Uniontown, Alabama — As Esther Calhoun sees it, discrimination, rooted in the acts of many, has turned this wisp of a town into a dumping ground.A landfill owner that staked out roughly 1,000 acres for...
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