We sat down with reporter Sarah Stillman to discuss her recent New Yorker investigation on the fatal risks and lack of oversight in the world of confidential informants.

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, talks with A.C. Thompson and others about turning a real life New Orleans investigation into a fictional story line for the HBO drama Treme.

Amanda Zamora and Justin Elliott walk us through ProPublica’s rebooted Free the Files project, which aims to uncover outside spending in the final days leading to the presidential election.

In this week's episode, ProPublica's Kim Barker answers questions about her dark money investigation and asks, "Are we OK, as a democracy, with having all this anonymous money coming in" and influencing the presidential elections?

Wired's Mat Honan joins the podcast this week to discuss his terrifying hacking ordeal with longtime friend, and ProPublica senior editor, Eric Umansky.

ProPublica's Stephen Engelberg talks with the Boston Globe's Michael Kranish and Beth Healy about their investigation probing presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the financial firm he co-founded, Bain Capital.

Abrahm Lustgarten walks us through his new series on injection wells and how they might quickly become the nation's next big water pollution problem.

John Branch, a sports reporter for the New York Times, joins ProPublica’s Marshall Allen for a MuckReads podcast to discuss his series on hockey enforcer Derek Boogaard and the culture of violence that led to his untimely death.