The Breakthrough

Over the course of his 16-year career as a registered nurse, Charles Cullen murdered at least 40 patients – making him one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. Author Charles Graeber chronicled Cullen’s killing spree in his book, The Good Nurse, and shares the chilling backstory in our latest podcast.

Last month, the Labor Department reported that the United States has more temp workers than ever before. Steve Engelberg and Michael Grabell discuss how this system insulates companies from employer responsibilities while in some cases forcing workers’ pay below minimum wage.

As we continue our investigation into the lack of oversight of the drugs prescribed in Medicare’s Part D program, senior reporters Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber sat down with Steve Engelberg to talk about the project and their latest findings.

In the face of claims that the National Security Agency’s data collection program had prevented terrorist plots, ProPublica’s Sebastian Rotella took a closer look at one of those: David Coleman Headley’s foiled plan to attack a Danish newspaper.

ProPublica's editor-in-chief Steve Engelberg sat down with ProPublica’s community editor Blair Hickman and news application fellow Jeremy Merrill to talk about our unique approach to investigating the intern economy.

ProPublica's editor-in-chief Steve Engelberg sits down with senior reporter and "The Trade" columnist Jesse Eisinger to talk about what's wrong with banks being so big.

ProPublica editor-in-chief Steve Engelberg sat down with Kim Barker to talk about the burgeoning IRS scandal and ProPublica’s role in it.

Rob Garver and Charles Seife join the podcast to discuss their recent story of how the Food and Drug Administration found a lab in Houston, Texas, that had provided the agency with drug tests tainted by "egregious" research misconduct.

Prosecutorial misconduct can have devastating consequences for defendants and their families, but the prosecutors themselves rarely receive any disciplinary action. Steve Engelberg and Joaquin Sapien discuss ProPublica's latest investigation into this flawed and tragic system.

Free, simple tax returns are already a reality in much of Europe. Why hasn’t the U.S. adopted this system?

Steve Engelberg and Nikole Hannah-Jones discuss the Fisher v. University of Texas case currently before the Supreme Court and how the agenda is much broader than the use of race in college admissions.

The cover story in the current issue of the Washington Monthly by Haley Sweetland Edwards delves into what sounds like a dull subject — the federal “rule-making” process — and manages to make it exciting.

Podcast: Steve Brill on Healthcare and the Media in America

ProPublica's Marshall Allen, Olga Pierce and Blair Hickman walk us through their ongoing series on patient safety, and how it's essentially inverted the investigative process by incorporating community and crowdsourcing efforts long before they've published a single traditional story.

ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen interviews Deadspin's Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey about breaking the story of the three hoaxes involving college football player Manti Te'o.