Publication: ProPublica: Articles and Investigations

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Discussion: Military Lending and Debt

by Blair Hickman In honor of Memorial Day, ProPublica and Marketplace will host a live discussion on the issues facing military members in debt. The Military Lending Act of 2007 attempted to protect military members and their families from predatory ... [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 23 2013]

Entities: Military/Armed Forces, ProPublica, Mitchell Hartman, Paul Kiel

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

A Prolonged Stay: The Reasons Behind the Slow Pace of Executions

by Raymond Bonner, Special to ProPublica States that impose the death penalty have been facing a crisis in recent years: They are short on the drugs used in executions. In California, which has the country's largest death row population, the chief ... [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 22 2013]

Entities: Drugs, Capital Punishment, Pentobarbital, Phenobarbital

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Six Facts Lost in the IRS Scandal

by Kim Barker and Justin Elliott In the furious fallout from the revelation that the IRS flagged applications from conservative nonprofits for extra review because of their political activity, some points about the big ... [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 22 2013]

Entities: Social Welfare, Donor, Elections

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Rush Limbaugh

Sound, Fury and the IRS Mess

by Richard Tofel ProPublica’s job is to report the news rather than to make news ourselves, but sometimes we find an article of ours to be itself a subjectof public debate. Last week wassuch a time, when two articles we had published back in ... [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 21 2013]

Entities: Rush Limbaugh, ProPublica, Stephen Moore, Corroboration, Donor

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Chuck Hagel

Congressmen to Hagel: Where Are the Missing War Records?

by Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublica The top Republican and Democrat on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs aredemanding more details from defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about lost Army fieldrecords from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the ... [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 20 2013]

Entities: Chuck Hagel, Jeff Miller, ProPublica, Michael Michaud

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

ProPublica and the IRS Scandal

by Mike Webb Last week, ProPublica's Kim Barker and Justin Elliott explained how the IRS sent us tax-exempt applications for nonprofit status fromconservative groups. We also notedsome of the dysfunction that exacerbated the problems at the ... [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 20 2013]

Entities: ProPublica, Crossroads GPS, Corroboration

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

The Story Behind Our Hospital Interactive

by Tom Detzel Here at ProPublica, we love to find new ways to tell stories. We’ve built data-driven news apps , commissioned our own news songs and crafted narratives with a novelist’s touch , all to enrich our investigative reporting. “ Your ... [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 17 2013]

Entities: Interactive, ProPublica, Olga Pierce, Tom Jennings, Marshall Allen

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional

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Entities: IRS Internal Revenue Service, Social Welfare, Tea Party Movement

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

The Most Important #Muckreads on Rape in the Military

by Christie Thompson The Pentagon announced this week that a sergeant working in the military’s sexual assault prevention office had been charged with — you guessed it — sexual assault. This news came just a week after the officer in charge of ... [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 16 2013]

Entities: Military/Armed Forces, Rape, Sexual Assault

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated by Debt

by Paul Kiel , ProPublica, and Mitchell Hartman, Marketplace This story was co-produced with Marketplace . Listen to their coverage . Seven years after Congress banned payday-loan companies from charging exorbitant interest rates to service members, ... [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 15 2013]

Entities: Military/Armed Forces, ProPublica, Ace Cash Express Inc, Fort Stewart (United States), Marketplace

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Discussion: Installment Loans and the Shifting Debt Industry

by Blair Hickman Monday, we co-published a story with Marketplace on installment loans , a growing industry that offers quick money to low-income borrowers – and is flying under regulators’ radars. Installment loans are the cousins of payday ... [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 14 2013]

Entities: Mitchell Hartman, Paul Kiel, Marketplace, World Finance Corporation

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Discussion: What’s Going on at Gitmo?

by Christie Thompson The current hunger strike at Guantanamo has entered its fourth month , with resistance growing to involve 100 detainees. More medics have been flown in to assist with force-feeding 29 inmates, and five are currently hospitalized. ... [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 14 2013]

Entities: Detainee, Guantanamo (Cuba), Charlie Savage, ProPublica, prison

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...interests?" said Clive Stafford Smith, a British-American, who was a death penalty lawyer in the South for many years before founding Reprieve. "You can make it not worth their while to allow their drugs in executions."

A Prolonged Stay: The Reasons Behind the Slow Pace of Executions [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 22 2013]

...Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who chairs the defense appropriations subcommittee and is the Senate's second-ranking Democrat. "If we're serious about protecting military families from exploitation, this law has to be a lot tighter."

On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated by Debt [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 15 2013]

...Now we’re bringing together a group of journalists to answer your questions about the U S " most controversial prison. "

Discussion: What’s Going on at Gitmo? [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 14 2013]

In response, ProPublica’s then-general manager and now president, Richard Tofel, said, "ProPublica believes that the information we are publishing is not barred by the statute cited by the IRS, and it is clear to us that there is a strong First Amendment interest in its publication.” "

IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - May 13 2013]

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