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'Dark money' groups fueled by cable industry
The U.S. cable industry’s largest trade association last year helped bankroll several groups that spent millions of dollars in attempts to defeat President Barack Obama, new disclosures indicate.A 2012...
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The mess gets worse at Hanford’s nuclear site
The government’s multi-billion-dollar effort to clean up the nation’s largest nuclear dump has become its own dysfunctional mess.For more than two decades, the government has worked to dispose of 56...
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Sorting out why insurers cancel policies
Now that President Obama has said it’s OK with him if insurance companies keep their policyholders in health plans that don’t meet the standards established by the Affordable Care Act, at least for...
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American League of Lobbyists changes name
The nation's largest lobbying industry group is ditching its lobbyist-centric name.The American League of Lobbyists — known as such since its founding in 1979 — will now call itself the Association of...
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Anti-Obama nonprofit tells IRS it's not 'political'
Swing state voters in Virginia and Ohio last fall were bombarded with television advertisements encouraging them to "stand with coal" and "vote no on Obama's failing energy policy."But the sponsor of...
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Remarkable public response to 'Breathless and Burdened' as its impact continues
The public reaction to our black lung investigation, "Breathless and Burdened", has been as extraordinary as the initial political impact.Produced in collaboration with ABC News, The Center’s year-long...
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Pro-Obama nonprofit boosted by undisclosed donors
A nonprofit organization started by two former Obama White House staffers received $5 million — or most of its $8.4 million in revenue last year — from four unnamed donors, new disclosures obtained by...
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'Dark money' groups give big to similar nonprofits
New Internal Revenue Service tax returns shed light on hefty spending by key nonprofit groups on political campaigns and lobbying — and the disclosures also show that some of the money raised by these...
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Push against offshore secrecy an uphill battle
In June 2000, international groups rolled out blacklists targeting offshore refuges that shelter tax dodging and money laundering. Some observers predicted “the death of tax havens.” By 2002 the...
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Center to cover political power of broadband industry
The Center for Public Integrity is investing in investigative reporting on the politics of broadband and the digital divide.Allan Holmes, an award-winning business journalist and former director of...
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The 'lobbyist' is dead
The lobbyist, like Philip Morris, ValuJet and the World Wrestling Federation before him, died today.He was 150 years old, give or take a decade, the victim of relentless pejorativation and...
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League of Conservation Voters becoming 'dark money' heavyweight
The liberal League of Conservation Voters is fast becoming one of the nation’s strongest “dark money” forces — a realm conservative groups have typically dominated.New documents filed with the Internal...
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As glitches fade, Obamacare approval will rise
The latest polls on Obamacare are bleak. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that almost half of those questioned last week had an unfavorable opinion of the law. Just a third had a favorable...
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Obama's pardoned turkeys courtesy of lobbyists
Lobbyists are strictly for the birds, President Barack Obama regularlyasserts. But an influential lobbying powerhouse will on Wednesday provide Obama a pair of well-pampered turkeys that the president...
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Nation's largest school police force, in L.A., will stop ticketing kids 12...
Responding to demand for reforms, the nation’s largest school police force — in Los Angeles — will stop issuing tickets to students 12-years-old or younger for minor infractions allegedly committed on...
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Energy Department 'bet' on Fisker Automotive ends in bankruptcy
Green-lighting a half-billion dollar loan to help a California electric car startup build a fleet of sleek plug-ins four years ago, the Obama administration’s Energy Department promised cutting-edge...
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IRS sets its sights on political 'dark money'
Nearly four years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision helped usher in a surge of political spending by “social welfare” nonprofits, the Internal...
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Center thankful for stellar reviews from charity watchdogs
I can honestly say that as a nonprofit organization, The Center for Public Integrity itself meets the highest standards of accountability.We’ve just been given the coveted certification by the Better...
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Fighting the 'spin' war over Obamacare
Now that November is history, will the Obamacare website work flawlessly from now on? Or, as the president has said, will it at least work for the “vast majority” of people who need to buy insurance on...
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Don’t support ‘campaign finance reform’? Try combating ‘corruption’
How important is reducing the influence of money in politics to Americans? It depends on how you ask the question.A new poll sponsored by the campaign reform advocacy group United Republic, through its...
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