A Closer Look

Examining the News

Impact of Our Reporting

Loan Forgiveness for Disabled Borrowers Was 10 Years in the Making

by Stephen Engelberg

September 8, 2021, 9:00 am EDT

Local Accountability Journalism Still Has a Huge Impact

by Charles Ornstein

January 30, 2020, 5:00 am EST

124 stories published since 2013

Revelations About the FBI’s Delay on Clinton Emails May Be Less Than They Seem

by Peter Elkind

February 1, 2018, 6:13 pm EST
Taking Care to Get a Mississippi Scandal Right

by Sarah Smith

December 30, 2017, 7:00 pm EST
Carried Interest Reform Is a Sham

by Allan Sloan

December 1, 2017, 8:00 am EST
The Cost of Trump’s Wall Compared to the Programs He’s Proposing to Cut

by Joe Sexton

March 17, 2017, 5:28 pm EDT
A Closer Look: ‘The Best and the Brightest,’ Steve Bannon and Us

by Richard Tofel and Stephen Engelberg

February 24, 2017, 11:05 am EST
Donald Trump and the Return of Seditious Libel

by Richard Tofel

November 21, 2016, 1:54 pm EST
A Schlupfloch Here, a Schlupfloch There. Now It’s Real Money.

by Allan Sloan

May 13, 2016, 10:00 am EDT
An Unintended Side Effect of Transparency

by Stephen Engelberg

May 12, 2016, 4:44 pm EDT
Mexico Finds It Easier to Focus on Trump Than Its Own Failings

by Ginger Thompson

April 25, 2016, 7:35 pm EDT
A Closer Look: I’m Not (Just) Your Paperboy

by Amanda Zamora

September 22, 2015, 1:04 pm EDT
The Time a Newspaper Stared Down the Country’s Largest Advertiser

by Richard Tofel

April 22, 2015, 1:33 pm EDT
Let The Game of Whack-A-Mole Begin: Feds Put Forward New Payday Rules

by Paul Kiel

March 27, 2015, 12:07 pm EDT
How Crowdsourcing Helped Bring Red Cross Problems to Light

by Stephen Engelberg

November 6, 2014, 12:37 pm EST
‘How Did You Start Investigating the Red Cross’: A Q & A With ProPublica Reporters

by Hanqing Chen

November 6, 2014, 11:53 am EST
For the Next Attorney General, a Modest Suggestion: Fix Presidential Pardons

by Stephen Engelberg

October 16, 2014, 10:18 am EDT
Analysis: Government’s New Doctor Payments Website Worthy of a Recall

by Charles Ornstein

October 1, 2014, 4:45 pm EDT
Paying Jabbar Collins $10 Million Doesn’t Address Problems With Prosecutors

by Joe Sexton

August 20, 2014, 6:00 pm EDT
A Closer Look: Three Golden Ages of Journalism?

by Paul Steiger

February 7, 2014, 2:00 pm EST
Why Reporters in the U.S. Now Need Protection

by Paul Steiger

November 27, 2013, 11:00 am EST
How the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza Became a Mistaken Poster Boy for Obamacare

by Charles Ornstein

October 22, 2013, 9:52 am EDT
How the Feds Could Fix Their Glitchy Health Care Exchange

by Charles Ornstein

October 11, 2013, 11:39 am EDT
Nine Ideas to Make Tylenol and Other Acetaminophen Drugs Safer

by Stephen Engelberg and Robin Fields

September 25, 2013, 11:47 am EDT
Why We Published the Decryption Story

by Stephen Engelberg and Richard Tofel

September 5, 2013, 2:54 pm EDT
Why NSA Snooping Is Bigger Deal in Germany

by Jannis Brühl

August 23, 2013, 9:00 am EDT