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  1. July 09, 2008

    New Website Tutorial

    New Website Tutorial The Center for Public Integrity's newly redesigned website is now live. Read more

  2. June 30, 2008

    Broken Elections, Stolen Votes

    Broken Elections, Stolen Votes Were the chaotic presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 an anomaly or a harbinger of things to come this November? Is democracy, as Karl Rove warned the Republican National Lawyers Association in 2006, under siege? Read more

  3. May 30, 2008

    Dirty Politics

    Dirty Politics When it comes to presidential elections, all politics is dirty. As Susan Estrich, Michael Dukakis’s campaign manager in 1988, says, “He who doesn’t throw mud ends up covered in it.” The 2008 election has been no exception to the truth that Dukakis learned the hard way, and we can look forward to almost six more months of mud blizzards before Election Day clears the campaign skies in November. Read more

  4. April 30, 2008

    Stealth Campaigns

    Stealth Campaigns Their names roll off the tongue with a patriotic cadence: Freedom’s Watch, Democracy Alliance, Citizens United, Progress for America, Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America. These are the new giants of American politics, the well-funded groups organized behind a veil of secrecy to influence the voters’ choice for president of the United States in 2008. Read more

  5. April 21, 2008

    Zero Enforcement

    Zero Enforcement In a crucial election year rife with controversies and record spending, the Federal Election Commission, missing four of its six members, lacks the quorum necessary to take any action. Despite a new congressional ethics law that gave the FEC new regulatory responsibilities, the paralyzed agency has failed to provide any rulings or advisory opinions so far this year. Read more

  6. April 18, 2008

    Don Young, Representative for Florida?

    Don Young, Representative for Florida? May 1, 2008 Update: The House voted 358-51 yesterday to agree to the Senate's demand for a federal criminal investigation of the $10 million earmark. Young defended his actions, claiming "these accusations have little, if any, connection with what actually occurred," but eventually joined many of his colleagues in voting for the bill to "clear this up once and for all." Read more

  7. February 14, 2008

    Rice in the Hot Seat

    WASHINGTON, February 14, 2008 — An influential member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs grilled Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on February 13, citing a recent study by the Center for Public Integrity on the Bush administration's campaign of misinformation to sell the Iraq war. Read more

  8. August 31, 2007

    Lesson from Durham

    WASHINGTON, August 31, 2007 — On June 16, the Disciplinary Hearing Commission of the North Carolina State Bar applied its maximum penalty to Mike Nifong, the Durham County prosecutor who attempted to frame three innocent students for a “crime” that did not occur. The commission disbarred Nifong, who, a day earlier, had announced that he would resign. Read more

  9. June 04, 2007

    Center in the News: Superfund Reports Embolden Democrats, Prompt Industry Criticism

    The following story appeared on InsideEPA.com on June 4, 2007: Read more

  10. March 26, 2007

    Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.: A Remembrance

    WASHINGTON, March 26, 2007 — In the last hours of February, at the age of 89, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. passed from this world. Not only did America lose its last great public historian, as Sam Tanenhaus recently wrote in The New York Times, but on a much more personal level, The Fund for Independence in Journalism and the Center for Public Integrity in Washington lost a wonderful, devoted friend. Read more

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