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South Carolinians see negative ad barrage ahead of GOP primary
The Republican race for the presidential nomination is becoming increasingly nasty as voters prepare to head to the polls in South Carolina on Saturday.So far this month, more than 15,200 TV ads have...
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Numbers to know about the 2016 presidential race
Saturday didn’t just play host to Democrats’ Nevada caucus and Republicans’ South Carolina primary.Federal rules also required presidential candidates — and the legion of super PACs that support them —...
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Giant title loan companies argue they are people too
Though they operate thousands of branches across the country, the nation’s three biggest auto title lenders want Virginia officials to treat them as private citizens and afford them the same right to...
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Can you sell marijuana pipes to help fund Bernie Sanders?
Ariel Zimman is taking a decidedly grassroots approach to supporting Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. But the legality of her handiwork is hazy, at best.The 29-year-old resident of Portland,...
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Comment to add depth to our reporting
From a February 4, 2016 note from Center for Public Integrity CEO Peter Bale.Facts are still sacredComment may be free and facts sacred, as a former editor of The Guardian once said, but I have been...
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Tracking the money in the election battleground
From January 21, 2016 note from Center for Public Integrity CEO Peter Bale.Track the television battlegroundTV is the big money battleground on which the political forces confront each other. Tracking...
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Science for Sale project names the merchants of doubt
From February 12, 2016 note from Center for Public Integrity CEO Peter Bale.Science for SaleDavid Heath on the Environment team gave birth this week a story more than a year in the making and based on...
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Meet the nation's new election integrity watchman
With Election 2000’s voting debacle still raw, President George W. Bush, in 2002, signed into law the “Help America Vote Act,” which he promised would help “ensure the integrity and efficiency of...
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Got a quarter of a trillion dollars? Or a half?
The environmental damage caused by decades of nuclear weapons production will take at least 60 more years to clean up and cost taxpayers nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars, according to the Energy...
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Small businesses for Trump: ‘Just get somebody different in there’
Some of the most generous donors to Donald Trump’s campaign thus far — other than the candidate himself — are people with jobs titles a lot like his. They just don’t make quite as much money.Excluding...
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Uphill climb for school discipline reform in Virginia
Virginia legislators have rejected three bills crafted to limit school policing statewide, exposing a rift among GOP lawmakers, in particular, over a prominent criminal justice issue being debated...
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Center data team win, measuring Trump
Our data journalism across the Center for Public Integrity and in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is second to none in my view. It’s also a core competence I want to...
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A terrorist group’s plot to create a radioactive ‘dirty bomb’
A small video camera stashed in a row of bushes silently recorded the comings and goings of the family of a Brussels-area man with an important scientific pedigree last year, producing a detailed...
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Like Spotlight? Back investigative journalism
The victory of documentary drama Spotlight in the Best Picture category in the Oscars is a timely reminder of the value of investigative journalism.“We would not be here today without the heroic...
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Chicago Cubs co-owner takes brickbat to Trump's immigration record
Days before a dozen states conduct their Super Tuesday nominating contests, one super PAC has made a six-figure national ad buy with one purpose: take down Republican presidential frontrunner Donald...
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Medicare Advantage reporting honored in health journalism contest
Senior reporter Fred Schulte’s investigative series into systematic waste in the Medicare Advantage program has been awarded second place in the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism,...
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Republican super PACs pile on Trump with ad barrage
March, 2 2016: This story has been corrected and updated.In the final two weeks before Super Tuesday, Republican super PACs coalesced, airing roughly 8,500 ads blasting GOP front-runner Donald Trump,...
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Pro-Chris Christie super PAC bankroller accused of breaking law
Two government reform organizations today accused a mysterious Delaware-based company of violating federal campaign finance laws.As first reported by the Center for Public Integrity, Decor Services LLC...
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Ben Carson's small-dollar donors could keep yielding big money
Ben Carson’s presidential bid has failed.But the retired neurosurgeon’s campaign succeeded wildly at one thing: collecting personal — and lucrative — information from more than 700,000 donors and...
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Members of Congress call for reforms to bulk mortgage sales
Forty-five members of Congress have called for reforms to mortgage sales programs run by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — including one program that was the...
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