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Where Congress Stands on Guns
In the aftermath of the Newtown tragedy, President Obama on Wednesday will announce new national gun control measures. He has already urged members of Congress to do the same. Here is our comprehensive look at where lawmakers stand on guns, as well as political spending and voting history.
Housing Segregation: The Great Migration and Beyond
Explore the great migration of African Americans from 1940 to 2000 and segregation in Northern cities.
What Kind of Body Scanner Does Your Airport Have?
Nearly 100 backscatter scanners were removed from major airports recently to speed up lines. See if they’re still in use at your airport.
Updated Nursing Home Inspection Tool
We’ve updated our app with new data and a new design, making it easier to find nursing home problems in your state.
Pipeline Safety Tracker
Every year the nation’s oil and natural gas pipelines suffer hundreds of ruptures and spills. We map major pipeline accidents from 1986 to the present.
How Much Did Independent Groups Spend Per Vote?
Although an unprecedented amount was spent by outside groups in an effort to influence the 2012 campaign, the candidates with the most super PAC funding were defeated Tuesday. Here’s a look at how much outside groups spent per vote in a few of the notable races.
Message Machine: Tracking Political Targeting
Political campaigns send many variations of each email to supporters. We’ve been collecting emails from political campaigns and tracking the variations. You can be a part of this project by forwarding political emails you get to emails@messagemachine.propublica.org.
Free the Files: Help ProPublica Unlock Political Ad Spending
Outside groups are spending millions of dollars hoping to influence political campaigns – but they’re hard to track down. Detailed information about spending is locked in documents filed at TV stations across the country. Help us uncover this spending by reviewing documents.
State-by-State: Underground Injection Wells
Through the Freedom of Information Act, ProPublica collected annual state regulatory summaries for the underground injection of waste that were submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency between late 2007 and late 2010.
Interactive: Stacking Up the Administration’s Drone Claims
How the government talks about a drone program it won’t acknowledge exists.
How Some Nonprofit Groups Funnel Dark Money Into Campaigns
Explore how tax-exempt groups active in the 2010 election spent millions of dollars on campaigns, sometimes reporting less political spending to the Internal Revenue Service than they did to election officials.
Graphic: Who are the Super PACs’ Biggest Donors?
An interactive chart showing the share of all contributions given by the top ten donors to each of the 12 largest super PACs.
Interactive: How Obama Drone Death Claims Stack Up
Obama administration assertions about the number of civilians killed by U.S. drone strikes have varied widely. We charted every claim we could find.
Where Are the Foreclosure Deal Millions Going in Your State?
We contacted every state to see how they are spending the money they received from the foreclosure settlement. Here’s the most comprehensive breakdown available anywhere.
Murdoch’s Circle: The Growing News International Scandal
From phone hacking to bribery, the corruption at News International has involved many players—increasingly, ones close to Rupert Murdoch. We’ve mapped out the players involved in this growing debacle, organized by their proximity to Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and other senior staff.
Timeline: How Obama Compares to Bush on Torture, Surveillance and Detention
As the terrain and debate around national security shifts, we took a look back at some of the most controversial elements of George W. Bush’s national security policy, to see how much has changed under Obama – and how much has stayed the same.
Latest News Corp. Investigation Emails
Report your findings in over 160 News Corp. internal emails released today
Updated: Dialysis Facility Tracker
ProPublica obtained data about the performance of more than 5,000 U.S. dialysis clinics. Our Dialysis Facility Tracker allows patients to compare clinics on such measures as patient survival, infection control, hospitalization rates and transplant rates.
A Tangled Web: Who’s Making Money From All This Campaign Spending?
Many have been detailing the vast sums being raised by the presidential candidates and the super PACs supporting them. But where are all those millions being spent?
Sealing Loose Lips: Charting Obama’s Crackdown on National Security Leaks
A timeline of the Obama administration’s aggressive campaign against government leakers.
What the Frack is in That Water?
Environmentalists have repeatedly pressed regulators to compel oil and gas companies to report what chemicals they use in the drilling and fracking process. No one knows the exact makeup of the frack mixture or drilling muds, but this list breaks down the main ingredients revealed so far.
Message Machine: Reverse Engineering an Obama Email Campaign
Campaigns are increasingly tailoring their messages—and their funding requests—using massive databases of personal information about potential voters. Here are six variations of a Thursday night message from the Obama campaign, based on emails submitted by 190 recipients across the country.
Ponying Up: How Much Have Big Banks Been Docked for the Financial Crisis?
Nearly four years after the financial crisis, settlements with the big players on Wall Street keep coming out, one after the other. It can be hard to keep track of it all. So who’s been hit, with what, and for how much in total?
Taking Stock of the Stock Act: A Side-by-Side Comparison
The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, or Stock Act, recently passed in both chambers of Congress. We break down the main differences between the House and Senate versions, with a real-life scenarios that illustrate activities the bill targets.
Updated Recovery Tracker
Once again, we’ve taken all the data used on the government’s stimulus Web site, Recovery.gov, spiffed it up and added thousands of other recovery spending records — the law doesn’t require all recipients to report to Recovery.gov.
Komen’s Contortions: a Timeline of the Charity’s Shifting Story on Planned Parenthood
The Komen foundation’s decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood set off such an uproar that the charity quickly gave it back. We trace how their explanations changed along the way.
From Gung-Ho to Uh-Oh: Charting the Government’s Moves on Fracking
Fracking has only recently become a household word, but government involvement with the drilling technique goes back decades. We trace officials’ moves—and levels of caution—over time.
PAC Track: Now Includes Contributions
What and where are the super PACs spending?
SOPA Opera
Well-funded interests on either side of SOPA and PIPA are lining up support among members of Congress. This database keeps track of where members of Congress stand.
Rep. Jerry McNerney’s District
Democrats recognized that they could protect Jerry McNerney from being redistricted out of office by the Citizen’s Redistricting Commission.
Fair Districts Mass Proposals
Fair Districts Mass says it is an independent group seeking better representation for minorities, but it has proposed maps that call its motives into question.
Florida’s 3rd Congressional District
Congresswoman Corrine Brown, an African-American Democrat from Florida, represents one of the most irregularly shaped districts in the nation.
Dollars for Docs
Has Your Doctor Received Drug Company Money?
ALEC-Related Contributions
Use this database to find campaign contributions from some ALEC-affiliated groups to some ALEC-member state legislators.
The Opportunity Gap
ProPublica analyzed new data from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights along with other federal education data to examine whether states provide students equal access.
How the Heart Rhythm Society Sells Access
The Heart Rhythm Society’s annual conference is a marketing bonanza for drug companies and medical device makers.
How Much Money Do Groups Receive From Industry?
In a response to a request from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, 33 professional associations and health advocacy groups listed their payments from the pharmaceutical, medical device and insurance industries. They also detailed the relationships that the groups’ executives and board members had with the same companies.
FOIA b(3) Exemptions
Information about watermelon handlers, avocado importers and caves are some of the categories of information that have been withheld from federal Freedom of Information Act requesters using sections of laws that are otherwise unrelated to disclosure. There are hundreds of such laws, according to data compiled by the Sunshine in Government Initiative. They fall under number three—known as b(3)—of the nine exemptions. Use our database to see how extensively agencies use b(3) exemptions.
Autopsies in the U.S.A.
ProPublica, in partnership with PBS “Frontline” and NPR, surveyed almost 70 of the largest coroner and medical examiner systems in the U.S.
FCIC Document Dive
When the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its final report on the causes of the financial crisis, it released an extensive document archive. We’ve tried to make searching through it a bit easier. Use the form below to search for people, places, or organizations mentioned in the documents.
Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data
A series of technical and programming tutorials on how scraped, parsed, and organized data for “Dollars for Docs.”
Find Homes With Tainted Drywall
When the Consumer Products Safety Commission provided data in October, the agency said it had received fewer than 3,500 reports of tainted drywall. ProPublica and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune compiled a list of addresses from county property appraiser data and records in consolidated lawsuits filed in New Orleans federal court and found nearly twice that number: around 6,900 homes.
Interactive: Which Banks Got Emergency Loans from the Fed During the Financial Meltdown?
Wednesday the Federal Reserve released data on more than 21,000 loans and other deals it made through a dozen emergency programs created during the financial crisis. We’ve combined the Fed’s three programs that loaned directly to banks and other financial firms with the goal of getting them to start lending again.
CDOs’ Interlocking Ownership
See which CDOs exchanged pieces with other CDOs through our interactive feature that reveals the incestuous nature of Wall Street’s CDO business.
Chart: A Bank’s Best Customers
In the last two years of the boom, CDOs created by one bank commonly purchased slices of other CDOs created by the same bank.
BP Claims Tracker
Follow the damage claims from the Gulf Oil Spill paid by HP.
Bailout Scorecard
Our frequently updated database tracks every dollar and every bailout recipient. Check out our scorecard to see where the spending stands.
“What Health Care Reform Means” Stories
Using results from a questionnaire we did with American Public Media’s Public Insight Network, we examined how the proposed health care reforms will actually affect people facing common health care coverage situations.
Graphic: The Timeline of Magnetar’s Deals
How did Magnetar’s deals in subprime mortgage securities compare to the overall market’s?
Side By Side: Health Care Bill
Compare the Senate version of the 2010 Health Care overhaul bill with the final bill.
Tracking Nurses—What You Need to Know
How easy does your state make it to investigate licensed nurses online?
Loan Mods Tracker
How is the $75 billion home mortgage foreclosure prevention program performing?
Stimulus Speed Chart
Just how fast are federal agencies getting stimulus money out the door?
Unemployment Insurance Tracker
Tracking how long state unemployment insurance trust funds will hold up.
State Gas Drilling Regulatory Staff Tracker
How big is the natural gas drilling regulatory staff in your state?
Leadership PAC Tracker
How much did your congressman’s Leadership PAC raise, and where did that money go?
Stimulus Contracts Tracker
What companies in your area have received highway stimulus funds?
Video Skimmer: Ron Boline
Use our video skimmer tool to navigate through the testimony of Ronald Boline, on private contractors in Iraq.
Foreign Lobbyist Influence Tracker
Which foreign countries are lobbying the U.S. Congress, and for what purposes? In partnership with the Sunlight Foundation.
Gitmo Detainee Lawsuits
Search the lawsuits filed by detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and their status.
Chart: Approved Highway Stimulus Projects
What highways stimulus projects have been approved?
Sanctioned California Nurses Database
Search the California Board of Registered Nursing database for disciplinary procedures between 2002 and September 2009.
Unclaimed Federal Unemployment Funding
Has your state left federal unemployment insurance money unclaimed?
The Obama Team’s Disclosure Docs
Read the disclosure documents that the Obama administration has made public.
ChangeTracker
Track changes the administration makes to WhiteHouse.gov in near-realtime.
The Stimulus Plan: The Tax Cuts
An easy-to-understand chart of the tax cuts in the stimulus bill.
The Stimulus Plan: A Detailed List of Spending
An easy-to-understand chart of the spending the stimulus bill.
School Construction Funding Cuts in the Stimulus Bill
What school construction spending was excluded from the Senate stimulus bill?
The Stimulus Bills: House vs. Senate
A side-by-side accounting of the differences between the House and Senate stimulus bills.
The Missing Memos
Which Bush administration memos on detentions, interrogations and warrantless wiretapping are secret, and which are public?
Inaugural Address Quiz
Test your knowledge: Which president used which words most frequently in his inaugural address?
Degrees of Hank Paulson
How linked was former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson with CEOs in the financial community?
History of U.S. Gov’t Bailouts
What companies and industries have historically gotten the biggest bailouts?
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