On the night of September 30, 2004, few of the estimated 62.4 million viewers watching President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry square off…
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Termites? No problem. On DoMyOwnPestControl.com, $64.99 buys a 20-ounce bottle of Termidor SC. That’s enough for anyone with a credit card and a shipping address…
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich isn’t running for president this year, but due to a gusher of support for his campaign to promote opening up…
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Rich people live lives that most everyone else can only imagine. They can buy the nicest cars, drink the finest wines, afford the best doctors,…
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LILLEHAMMER, NORWAY, Sept. 13, 2008 — A New York Times series about deadly Chinese counterfeit drugs sold around the world and a TV4 Sweden investigation…
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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2008 — According to a new Center investigation, Perils of the New Pesticides, pyrethrins and…
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Archive InvestigationsRusk County, Texas — A gentle twilight pink stretches across the sky, touching the waters of Martin Creek Lake. The still air, smelling only of East Texas pines, brings the faint sounds of wildlife in the surrounding woods. Smog and traffic seem much further away than the 145-mile drive to Dallas.
Here’s the report that top officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention thought was too hot for the public to handle — and the story behind it.
The Center reveals that military contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan grew from $11 billion in 2004 to more than $25 billion in 2006 — and that billions have gone to unidentified foreign companies.
Washington State is tops in making it easy to track the private interests of public officials, and Vermont, Michigan, and Idaho tie for last in the Center’s national ranking. Check where your state ranks.
Post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy and military aid and assistance had a huge impact in nations around the world — and at home. This award-winning project includes 20 articles from four continents.
The Superfund isn’t so super anymore. A year-long investigation examined all 1,624 Superfund sites and found daunting toxic threats across the country 27 years after the Environmental Protection Agency program was launched.
At least 900 little-known federal advisory committees wield enormous influence over government policy, some to good ends — but many have become secretive, ideological, or packed with industry representatives.
A year-long investigation of President Bush’s initiative to fight AIDS abroad finds that conservative ideology hinders its real benefits by insisting on abstinence-only programs over promoting condom use.
This project offers a comprehensive examination of business and legislative influences on media — and includes the Media Tracker, a searchable online database of who owns the media serving any U.S. community.
200 trips to Paris? 150 to Hawaii? 140 to Italy? The Center’s investigation of how private interests gain access to members of Congress by funding supposedly educational or investigative travel.
Government contracts awarded for cleanup and reconstruction after Hurricane Katrina are collected in a searchable database, and the best coverage of what happened on the Gulf Coast is gathered and categorized.
An investigation into the state of federal lobbying identifies the top 100 lobbying companies and organizations — led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — as well as the top 250 lobbying firms.
Who’s winning the big contracts? Between 1998 and 2004 no-bid contracts accounted for more than 40 percent of Pentagon contracting, totaling $368 billion — and many contractors were generous campaign donors.
The vast influence over government policy wielded by the oil and gas industry and its related interest groups, employees, and political action committees is helped along by the millions in campaign contributions this project analyzes.
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This year’s presidential debates will be brought to you by beer, technology outsourcing, and bottled water, among others. The Commission on Presidential Debates, a tax-exempt corporation created and run by former chairmen of the two major political parties, announced nine “national sponsors” for the 2008 presidential debates (though its website offers no explanation of what national sponsorship actually entails).
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While U.S. news organizations are shutting down investigative teams and laying off their most experienced reporters, something extraordinary is going on overseas — investigative journalism is thriving. Last week, 500 reporters from a record 87 countries gathered in Lillehammer, Norway, for the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, the fifth such assembly since 2000. Scandinavian computer experts, armed with spreadsheets and search engines, joined Chinese bloggers, West African beat reporters, and others in sharing tips on everything from investigating war criminals to exposing corruption in sports.
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Everyone is in favor of renewable energy — even members of Congress who have voted against it repeatedly. Such are the strange politics behind the federal tax credits that help keep alive wind, solar, and other forms of alternative energy.
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The environmental impact of pesticides containing pyrethroids is causing alarm in California where a small aquatic animal, which serves as a sort of canary in the coal mine, is dying off due to soil contaminated by lawn chemicals. And what’s true for California may be true throughout the nation, authorities say.
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Members of Congress were far less likely than the Bush administration to spread false statements about the need for war in Iraq, according to a new study. The study comes on the heels of the Center’s Iraq: The War Card project, which earlier this year documented the administration’s orchestrated deceptions on the path to war.
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Revelations that the nation’s unemployment rate reached its highest level in five years in August helped make the economy issue No. 1 on the campaign trail this week. But the situation is actually worse than the media or candidates would have you believe.
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An independent review panel found last week that the Center’s Great Lakes Danger Zones project was based on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that used insufficient data. But that’s hardly a surprise, according to the chief adviser for the original report.
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Plagued by memories of Florida’s Katherine Harris and Ohio’s Ken Blackwell, a little-known 527 group helped win secretary of state posts for Democrats in five swing states during the last election cycle. Now the group has its sights on four more.
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