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Audit shows security gaps persist at nuclear weapons complex penetrated by...
A good security system would seem essential for the federal repository holding virtually all of the nation’s highly-enriched uranium, a key ingredient of nuclear weapons, just outside Knoxville,...
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9 things to know about Lawrence Lessig
Yearning for a most unconventional presidential candidate?Then you’ll love Lawrence Lessig, who promised torun if his exploratory effort raised $1 million by Labor Day. (It did.)The Harvard University...
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US infrastructure crisis includes your vote
Having been stuck in a broken down Amtrak train from New York and then evacuated to another in a six-hour odyssey, I had time to ponder US infrastructure and the way a Keynesian response to the 2011...
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Texas toxic air emissions series wins fifth national journalism award
The collaborative environmental health project “Big Oil, Bad Air” between the Center, InsideClimate News and the Weather Channel has won the 2015 National Association of Science Writers (NASW) Science...
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When being a reporter leads to jail
When doing your job as a reporter means jailKhadija Ismayilova, a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, was jailed this week for seven and a half years in a trumped up...
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Did this shady pro-Bernie Sanders super PAC just dupe James Bond?
Super villains are no match for James Bond. But a shadowy pro-Bernie Sanders super PAC might be.Daniel Craig, the actor famous for portraying the British spy, confirmed to the Center for Public...
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'Samsung is to blame' for cancers
CHUNCHEON, South Korea— Han Hye-kyung’s wheelchair is folded and leaning against the wall at the apartment entrance two floors below. There is no need for her wheelchair in this tiny apartment. The...
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James Bond exposes all that's wrong with super-PACs
"James Bond" backs dubious Bernie Sanders super-PACSeldom do our stories have as much going for them as Michael Beckel’s hard-won piece on the tale of a dodgy businessman-cum-diplomat-cum-lobbyist...
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On 9/11 anniversary, politicians collecting campaign cash
The 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks did not stop members of Congress from conducting political fundraisers as the 2016 election inches nearer.In the past, the day has been a time when politicking...
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EPA plans more aggressive civil-rights reviews
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Civil Rights will more aggressively evaluate recipients of EPA funding to ensure their compliance with federal civil-rights laws, the office said in a...
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Murmurs of change at the troubled EPA civil-rights office
The Center told you last month about the Environmental Protection Agency’s laggard Office of Civil Rights, which hasn’t made a formal finding of environmental discrimination in more than two decades of...
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Super PACs dominate airwaves in 2016 presidential race
Republican presidential candidates may tonight battle each other on CNN’s debate stage, but their supportive super PACs have been the dominant forces in the campaign’s television ad war this year.That...
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Pro-Rick Perry super PACs give back millions
A group of super PACs backing former Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s now-defunct presidential bid has refunded to donors most of the millions of dollars they collected, the groups’ finance chairman said.“We’re...
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New filing raises more questions about shady pro-Bernie Sanders group
Americans Socially United, a super PAC that recently received nearly $50,000 from James Bond actor Daniel Craig, has submitted its first official campaign finance report to the Federal Election...
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California should ensure funds to help struggling students are spent as...
California is a couple of years into a closely watched effort aimed at providing more help to disadvantaged students—kids identified as low-income, English-as-a-Second-Language learners, homeless or...
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Common solvent keeps killing workers, consumers
Johnathan Welch was 18 and working through lunch when the fumes killed him, stealing oxygen from his brain, stopping his heart.The chemical linked to his death in 1999 wasn’t a newly discovered hazard,...
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Insurers using lobbying muscle, campaign cash to push mergers
The CEOs of Aetna and Anthem, the two big insurers that have offered to pay more than $90 billion to buy two competitors, Humana and Cigna, will testify before a Senate panel Tuesday, in an effort to...
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White House report says lack of competition barrier to broadband adoption
A group recently formed by President Barack Obama released a report today that asserted the high price of broadband, brought about by too few Internet service providers, is a major barrier to adoption...
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11 things we learned investigating how the government sells mortgages to...
1. Over 98,000 “bad” mortgages have been sold to investors through a government program since 2010.2. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sells mortgages to investors at a steep...
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How bulk home loan sales benefit hedge funds over homeowners
Yue Qiuhttp://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/yue-qiuChris Zubak-Skeeshttp://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/chris-zubak-skeesJared...
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