“They’re Not Treating Mom Well” by A.C. THOMPSON, ProPublica and JONATHAN JONES, special to ProPublica, in collaboration with When the ambulance crew arrived, about 8:20 p.m., Joan Boice was in the TV lounge, face-down on…
“The Emerald City” by A.C. THOMPSON, ProPublica and JONATHAN JONES, special to ProPublica in collaboration with Joan Boice needed help. Lots of it. Her physician had tallied the damage: Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure, osteoporosis,…
Written by Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber and Jennifer LaFleur A screen shot of Bystolic’s website. This story was co-published with NPR. When the blood pressure drug Bystolic hit the market in 2008, it faced a…
Written by Joe Sexton The New York Criminal Court (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) It wasn’t much of a case: Queens prosecutors wanted to prosecute a woman for having falsely reported her car stolen in a bid…
Katrina Sutton of McDonough, Ga., stands outside the World Finance storefront where she took out an installment loan in August 2009. (Erik S. Lesser/EPA for ProPublica) by Paul Kiel This story was co-produced with Marketplace….
Written by Rob Garver and Charles Seife, Special to ProPublica Retired FDA investigator Patrick Stone (Katie Hayes Luke for ProPublica) On the morning of May 3, 2010, three agents of the Food and Drug Administration…
A student walks near Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA in April 2012. Students and parents are learning their college fates this week and then having to address whether schools are actually affordable. They…
by Lois Beckett A sign at the Babies “R” Us parking lot in Fairless Hills, Pa. The companies that sell information about how much money you make — and whether you’re pregnant, divorced, or trying…
Banking regulators admitted the Independent Foreclosure Review was a big expensive mess and shut it down. But many details about the $8.5 billion settlement that replaces it remain murky. (David McNew/Getty Images) Written by Paul…
Written by Marian Wang California gardener Francisco Reynoso’s son died in a car accident in 2008, burying the father in student debt. Now, four years later, Reynoso has finally reached a legal resolution. (J. Emilio…
A Transportation Security Administration officer looks at a simulated image from a backscatter machine at Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Neb., in June 2010. The TSA removed the X-ray body scanners from major airports, planning to…
by Charles Ornstein (Image: iStockPhoto) ProPublica today is updating our Nursing Home Inspect tool, which now includes details of more than a quarter-million deficiencies identified by government regulators at U.S. nursing homes over the past…
Field records from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, needed to document combat injuries, disability claims and the simple history of both wars, were never kept, were destroyed or simply cannot be found, a ProPublica-Seattle…
(Image: Flickr) by Lois Beckett Yesterday, we got a rare look at how information on your public social media profiles—including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn—is being harvested and resold by large consumer data companies. Responding to…
by Paul Kiel Rebecca Mairone, then at Bank of America, testifies to the Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 18, 2010. Mairone now heads JPMorgan Chase’s involvement in the Independent Foreclosure…
(Image: The Associated Press) by Paul Kiel The Obama administration launched its main program to prevent foreclosures in the spring of 2009 with $50 billion and abundant promises. What the Home Affordable Modification Program, or…
Patients are taken to ambulances outside of Bellevue Hospital during an evacuation on Oct. 31, in New York. Bellevue Hospital continued to evacuate its patients on Wednesday after flooding inundated the basement and knocked out…
Written by Jesse Eisinger Freddie officials wanted to protect the company’s bottom line and some sought to nix a backdoor economic stimulus. The consequence: Homeowners stayed trapped in high-rate loans. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) Freddie Mac,…
by Marian Wang Two recent government reports found that the companies handling private student loans sometimes add to the frustration and even the debt load of struggling borrowers. (File photo, Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) The parallels…
(File, Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) by Paul Kiel The idea behind the Independent Foreclosure Review seems simple. During the peak of the foreclosure crisis, the banks broke laws and made errors that hurt homeowners. In response,…