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Top investigations from 2013 that you may have missed
It's been a great year for the Center so far: we were honored at the White House Correspondents Dinner, our investigative coverage of the financial industry was brought back to life,...
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Super PAC forms to 'draft' Ben Carson for president
Ben Carson quickly became a tea party favorite following his criticism of some of President Barack Obama’s policies during a National Prayer Breakfast speech earlier this year. Some conservatives even...
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Returning veterans focus of new series by investigative program, News 21
The Center for Public Integrity is pleased to be partnering once again with News 21, the annual student journalist investigative reporting project that launches this year’s effort on Sunday. After...
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D.C. mayoral campaign may have violated coordination rules
A powerful political action committee may have paid for a $15,000 poll at the request of the scandal-plagued campaign of Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, an action that could have violated rules...
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Five money-in-politics facts about John Lewis
Fifty years ago, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., was in Washington, D.C., to hear the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech. As the 23-year-old, then-chairman of the Student...
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OSHA rule targets worker exposure to silica
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday proposed a long-awaited rule to control worker exposures to silica, a toxic mineral that can cause the deadly lung disease silicosis, lung...
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Senate committee to soon vote on FEC nominees
The Senate Rules and Administration Committee will soon schedule an early September vote on two Federal Election Commission nominees, two sources close to the nomination process tell the Center for...
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Post 9/11 veterans come home to a nation that cannot address their needs
In the 12 years since American troops first deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, more than 2.6 million veterans have returned home to a country largely unprepared to meet their needs. The government that...
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Claims processors received bonuses while backlog more than doubled
While veterans waited longer than ever in recent years for their wartime disability compensation, the Department of Veterans Affairs gave its workers millions of dollars in bonuses for “excellent”...
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Fear-mongering won't scuttle Obamacare
In this weekly column, former health insurance executive Wendell Potter offers commentary on matters relating to U.S. health care reform.Opponents of Obamacare know that time is not on their side. If...
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Veterans Affairs, Defense Depts. spend billions in effort to coordinate records
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense spent at least $1.3 billion during the last four years trying unsuccessfully to develop a single electronic health-records system...
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Health care costs will mushroom as injured veterans age
Jerral Hancock wakes up every night in Lancaster, Calif., around 1 a.m., dreaming he is trapped in a burning tank. He opens his eyes, but he can’t move, he can’t get out of bed and he can’t get a drink...
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World Bank approves loan to sugar plantation amid concerns about kidney disease
A mysterious kidney disease that is afflicting Central American agricultural workers has been raising growing alarms among governments, and in April the region’s health ministers jointly declared that...
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Secretive super PAC may be breaking federal law
A supposedly Texas-based super PAC is living up to its hush-hush name — and potentially breaking federal law in the process.Secretive Politics, which in August 2012 filed organizational paperwork with...
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Hearing loss widespread among post-9/11 veterans
Marine Corps reservist Mauricio Mota served in five combat zones between 1987 and 2008, the last one in Iraq, where he slept next to what he described as “deafening” field generators and rode in loud...
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Black Oakland youth arrested, but not charged, in stunning numbers, report says
African-American youth in Oakland, Calif. are arrested — but then not charged — at “vastly disproportionate” rates compared to others, which raises troubling questions about police interactions with...
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Suicide rate for veterans far exceeds that of civilian population
Veterans are killing themselves at more than double the rate of the civilian population with about 49,000 taking their own lives between 2005 and 2011, according to data collected over eight months by...
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Big Labor: still a political force
Membership in labor unions fell last year to its lowest level in nearly a century, but Big Labor remains a major player in national politics.Labor Day this year is celebrated on the heels of a massive...
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Is the Veterans Affairs Dept. too stringent on veteran-owned companies?
More than $1 billion in government contracts meant for small businesses owned by disabled veterans have been reclassified over the last 10 years by the Department of Veterans Affairs so that the work —...
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Coal industry, Hill allies target fine print of Obama climate plan
Paul Bailey made the White House pitch on July 31. Flanked by six colleagues from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the coal industry’s most public voice, Bailey pressed the case for...
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