ProPublica

Judicial retention elections in Kansas have typically been apolitical and uncontested—until Kansans for Justice entered the fray. Now state election overseers are grappling with a new kind of dark money.

Super PACs are required to identify their contributors, but some of them are funded entirely or mostly by social welfare non-profits that don’t have to do so. That leaves voters in the dark about where money is really coming from.

Money and strategists are shaping a nationally watched campaign amid talk of in vitro fertilization and end-of-life care.

An accidentally released court filing reveals how one company secretly gave money to a non-profit that helped get favorable mining legislation passed.

A refinance of Niagara County, New York’s tobacco bonds was good news—but for investors, not taxpayers.

In Niagara County, New York, leaders took on 40-year debt to pay for short-term stuff, a case study in the perverse incentives tobacco bonds create.

From dark money to a mysterious super PAC donor, here are a few of the best investigations of money in politics since the last elections.

More than two years ago, a series showed that white applicants were far more likely to receive clemency than comparable applicants who were black. Since then, the government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a study, but the pardons system remains unchanged.

Newly released documents describe “contractual relationships” between the NSA and U.S. companies, as well as undercover operatives.