ProPublica Archive
By Annie Waldman ProPublica, March 18, 2016, 12:19 p.m. Perhaps you remember Corinthian Colleges. It was the country’s second largest chain of for-profit colleges, before it collapsed into bankruptcy last year amid evidence of phony marketing and predatory loans. The …
by Paul Kiel ProPublica, Dec. 31, 2015, 8 a.m. This story was co-published with The New York Times’ Sunday Review. The most recent federal survey in 2013 put the difference in net worth between the typical white and black …
by Annie Waldman ProPublica, Nov. 6, 2015, 8:15 a.m. The U.S. Department of Education announced new transparency measures for college accreditors today, encouraging the organizations to focus more on student outcomes such as graduation rates. As part of a series …
by T. Christian Miller ProPublica, July 30, 2015, 6 a.m. This story was co-published with The Atlantic. QUANTICO, Va. — More than 30 years ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a revolutionary computer system in a bomb shelter two floors beneath …
by Joaquin Sapien ProPublica, May 20, 2015, 12:47 p.m. When 17-year-old Lexie Grüber first entered the Allison Gill Lodge group home for girls in Manchester, Connecticut, she said it felt less like a home than a business. Instead of family photos, …
by Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, and Jack Dolan, the Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2015, 6 a.m. A version of this story was co-published with the Los Angeles Times. Emails stolen by hackers from Sony Pictures Entertainment have been fodder for a …
T. Christian Miller ProPublica, May 6, 2015, 3:35 p.m. In October 1992, five American nuns were killed during brutal fighting in Liberia’s civil war. The FBI mounted an investigation, but no one was ever arrested, and the case was considered closed. …
By Alec MacGillis ProPublica, May 5, 2015, 8 a.m. The Obama administration is set to achieve one of its top domestic policy goals after years of wrangling. For-profit colleges, which absorb tens of billions of dollars in U.S. grants and loans …
by Michael Grabell ProPublica, April 29, 2015, 5:13 p.m. A bill that would prevent insurance companies from using routine doctor requests to reopen the cases of injured workers and deny previously approved care passed a key California senate committee Wednesday. The …
The wealthiest Americans can fly on their own jets, live in gated compounds and watch movies in their own theaters.
More of them also are walling off their political contributions from other big and small players.
A growing number of political committees …
