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Small donors fueled Michele Bachmann's campaign
What do the woman who founded the Congressional Tea Party Caucus, the co-chairmen of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the U.S. Senate’s lone self-described “democratic socialist” have in...
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Chevron shareholders reject ban on political spending
Chevron Corp. shareholders today rejected a resolution seeking to prohibit the company from using corporate funds for political activities.Last year, the oil company was one of the largest corporate...
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Tobacco giant funded conservative nonprofits
Tobacco giant Reynolds American Inc. last year helped fund several of the nation’s most politically active — and secretive — nonprofit organizations, according to a company document reviewed by the...
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Target malfunctions imperil U.S. missile defense effort
Shortly after 11 a.m. local time, a U.S. ballistic missile target loaded with a mock nuclear warhead blasted off from Narrow Cape, a low-lying coastal area of Alaska’s Kodiak Island. A network of...
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Award-winning Center series looks at toxic, sometimes hidden chemical releases
In case you missed this last week, the Center for Public Integrity’s environmental reporting team produced another groundbreaking investigation in our award-winning “Poisoned Places” series.Our latest...
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Norm Coleman sees big paydays from nonprofits
Leading two politically focused nonprofits has generated big money for former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota — with paydays better than when he served in Congress’ upper chamber.Coleman...
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Cancer-cluster study seeking to debunk 'Erin Brockovich' has glaring weaknesses
Even before the film Erin Brockovich depicted the true-life plight of a California town with poisoned water, state scientist John Morgan was calling claims of a cancer cluster there pure fiction.For...
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OPINION: the peril of Obamacare's promise
Presidents often live to regret some of the words speechwriters put in their mouths. The first President Bush paid a steep price for his ill-advised “Read my lips. No new taxes!” promise in 1988. He...
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Stealthy super PAC strikes in Mo. special election
A newly formed super PAC has invested more than $12,000 into 11th-hour efforts to turn out the vote for Republican House candidate Jason Smith in Missouri, federal records show.But voters in the...
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Son of former Korean president obtained secret offshore company amid family’s...
The eldest son of South Korea’s former President Chun Doo-hwan obtained an offshore company in the Caribbean in 2004 amid a tax evasion probe into his younger brother’s alleged involvement with their...
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Lobbyists helping banker recoup land Saddam 'stole'
A Michigan financial adviser says Saddam Hussein long ago stole a chunk of his land that now houses a U.S. and Iraqi military installation — and he wants the real estate back.What to do?Hire a pair of...
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Civil rights group's FCC positions reflect industry funding, critics say
When the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission pitched a plan to allow more media mergers earlier this year, he received support from a curious source: the Minority Media and...
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Reform pushed to G-8 meeting agenda after ICIJ's offshore tax haven...
Sometimes great investigative reporting is a game changer — meaning extraordinary journalism can have such significant impact that the issue it illuminates will forever be cast in a different...
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Lautenberg chemical bill drawing skepticism
One of Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s last bills could represent the best chance to update the nation’s chemical safety regulations by requiring proof that a chemical is safe before it can be used.But the...
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Time runs out on ethics reform in South Carolina
South Carolina’s legislative session came to a close Thursday with a conspicuous absence: ethics reform. While the House passed an ethics bill April 30, and the Senate appeared to be briskly moving the...
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Pentagon may be wasting a billion dollars a year in erroneous payments to...
The Pentagon has been paying hundreds of millions of tax dollars a year to people and companies that don’t deserve it, but its financial management shortcomings are so severe that it’s made little...
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Lobbying firm PACs start 2013 slow
Most lobbying firms are not in a hurry to pad politicians' political coffers early this election cycle, with only a few either raising or spending significant cash, a Center for Public Integrity...
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Secret court judge attended expenses-paid terrorism seminar
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who signed an order requiring Verizon to give the National Security Agency telephone records for tens of millions of American customers, attended an expense-paid...
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Sonia Sotomayor courts riches from book deal
When they aren’t busy handing down landmark decisions, professing the law or attending the opera, U.S. Supreme Court Justices can make millions in book deals.The high court’s authors raked in nearly $2...
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OPINION: smoothing out Medicaid's 'churn'
Bipartisanship is so rare on Capitol Hill these days, especially in regard to health care, that when such comity breaks out, it’s worth reporting.Around the time the House of Representatives was voting...
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