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'Breathless and Burdened' wins Heywood Broun Award
A 2013 Center for Public Integrity/ABC News investigation of the federal black lung benefits system, “Breathless and Burdened,” has won the Heywood Broun Award from The Newspaper Guild-Communications...
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Watchdog files IRS complaint against Koch-connected 60 Plus Association
Watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the 60 Plus Association, a conservative advocacy group funded largely by...
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Center honored for revealing chemical industry influence over science
The Center for Public Integrity's "Toxic Clout" series on the chemical industry's questionable influence over science has won an award from the Society of Environmental Journalists.The series won the...
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Pat Roberts' merry band of boosters
Moneyed nonprofits and super PACs so often peddle political poison, sending sorties of negative advertisements straight at a preferredcandidate's opponent. The candidate's own campaign, in turn, stays...
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Critic of artificial sweeteners pilloried by industry-backed scientists
Susan Swithers is no stranger to food industry criticism.In fact, the Purdue University professor anticipates a swift public relations blitz from trade groups representing diet- and low-calorie food...
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How Medicare Advantage plans code for cash
A new federal study shows that many Medicare Advantage health plans routinely overbill the government for treating elderly patients — and have gotten away with doing it for years.Analyzing government...
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Briefing the president but keeping the public in the dark
Twelve million Americans would be killed outright and 60 million would be dead within a year. The federal government, with the exception of the vice president and perhaps one cabinet member, would be...
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Ten major findings from our investigations so far this year
If you ask anyone at the Center for Public Integrity, they'll tell you 2014 has so far been a busy year. Our staffcontinuesto grow, we received one of the biggest single grants in our history and our...
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National Academy of Sciences agrees with EPA that formaldehyde causes cancer
For years, the chemical industry has been winning a political battle to keep formaldehyde from being declared a known carcinogen.The industry’s chief lobby group, the American Chemistry Council, has...
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Dire predictions of endless waits for a doctor have proven unfounded
Among the many predictions of Obamacare-related catastrophe was that the law, by enabling millions to join the ranks of the insured, would force us all to wait longer to see a doctor and very possibly...
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Russian gas company hires D.C. lobbyists
Russia’s largest privately held gas producer has turned to a Washington, D.C., public relations firm to lobby the administration and Congress after one of its largest shareholders, an associate of...
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Decades old gun control debate reshaped by new advocacy groups
Twenty months after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, some would say little has changed when it comes to guns in America.Others would say everything...
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‘Dr. Evil’ fuels dogfight between AKC, Humane Society
In recent weeks, riders of Washington, D.C.’s metro system have seen a parade of posters inside trains that make shocking allegations about the nation’s best-known animal rights group, the Humane...
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Washington's cynical misinformation game
In most of our country’s major institutions, we have little tolerance for cheating and lying. Whether it’s the court system, schools, businesses, even our sports teams, we impose stiff sanctions...
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Stronger self-defense laws spread, despite limited measure of impacts
Americans are more empowered than they have ever been by stand your ground or similar laws to use firearms to protect themselves and their property, though the laws are applied inconsistently across...
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Medicare Advantage patients find themselves in regulatory limbo
When Minnesota retiree Doug Morphew needed surgery last year, he expected his Humana Medicare Advantage plan to step up and pay the lion’s share of the bill.Morphew said the health plan had told him...
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L.A. schools program aims to keep kids out of courts
The nation’s second-largest school district — Los Angeles Unified — is unveiling a sweeping new agreement today to curb police involvement in minor school discipline and campus problems.The agreement,...
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Outsiders dominate Alaska's Senate race
As Alaskans vote today to decide the Republican Party’s challenger to incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Begich, outside forces are dominating the contentious race — the outcome of which could determine...
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Evolution of public-carry laws expands gun rights
Number of states that prohibited concealed carry in 1981: 19States that prohibit it today: 0Number of states that do not require a concealed carry permit: 5An open-carry permit : 25WICKENBURG, Ariz. —...
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Growing number of biosafety labs raises public health concern
Since the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that killed five people and raised the specter of bioterrorism in the United States, the number of high-level biosafety labs operated by governments, universities...
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