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Center for Public Integrity

Help Us Liberate Government Records During Sunshine Week

Ellen Miller | Posted 03.17.2010 | Politics


Ellen Miller

As part of Sunshine Week, The Center for Public Integrity and the Sunlight Foundation are looking for help with The Data Mine, a new online series identifying inaccessible or difficult to use information.

Women's Bodies

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 03.01.2010 | Living


W. Hunter Roberts

Women's bodies are the alpha and the omega of women's rights and women's dignity, the sine qua non and the front line of everything we have won over the past fifty years.

Mortgage Modification Program: Subprime Lenders Entrusted With Billions To Fix Mortgage Crisis They Created

Mother Jones | Andy Kroll | Posted 02.09.2010 | Business


The Treasury Department has allocated $75 billion to entice lenders to let beleaguered borrowers stay in their homes. And the companies getting most o...

'Shadow Elite': Outsourcing Government, Losing Democracy

Charles Lewis | Posted 03.18.2010 | Books


Charles Lewis

Public and private are now substantially blurred, as the "transnational" political elites and the financial elites have become literally the same people. It is a condition which leaves the people feeling unrepresented.

Ginnie Mae Using Taxpayer Funds To Fuel Risky Lending

washingtonpost.com | Brian Grow and Zachary A. Goldfarb | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business


Lend America is hardly the only lender with a troubled record that Ginnie Mae has endorsed. The agency has provided taxpayer backing to at least 36 ot...

The US Chamber of Commerce Is Killing the Copenhagen Climate Treaty

James Hoggan | Posted 03.18.2010 | Green


James Hoggan

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has already done everything it can to kill the chances of a legally binding agreement emerging from the Copenhagen climate change summit.

Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 03.18.2010 | Green


Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

Many States Still Fail To Disclose Finances For Lawmakers

The Center For Public Integrity | Caitlin Ginley | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics


Two southern states -- Louisiana and Mississippi -- made the biggest strides in the Center for Public Integrity's latest financial disclosure rankings...

How To Fix American Journalism

Sara Catania | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media


Sara Catania

If American journalism is to save itself, it must look to non-profits and universities for funding and support.

Broken Government: Top Ten Failures of the Bush Administration

Craig Newmark | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics


Craig Newmark

The folks at the Center for Public Integrity have documented, in one place, the failures of the current administration, and enabled the public to vote on the worst.

'Yes We Can' Create a Sane Food Policy in the U.S.

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics


Bruce Friedrich

In January, we will have a president who understands and cares about the broader implications of our food policy. This will be an impressive first.