Investigative Journalism & In-Depth Reporting
TIJ's monthly State Watch surveys May 2026 accountability findings — including a $5M North Carolina aid referral, Chicago's two-notch GO downgrade, $4.6M in California cellphone waste, Maryland's deepening fiscal gap,…
TIJ's weekly review of SEC filings: SailPoint's GitHub breach disclosure, Six Flags' triple C-suite exit, the Equilar 100 showing two CEOs above $200M, tariff risk factors, Form 4 insider sales,…
A decimal-point error in a 2021 FEMA-reimbursed COVID invoice became a million deposit, then a 2022 House seat. Records suggest the cascade now spans a 15-count federal indictment, 25 House…
Five federal documents this week describe a single problem: a record-level enforcement output drawn from a shrinking oversight workforce. An Investigative Journal analysis of patterns across this week's TIJ coverage.
Federal enforcement this week was led by a Justice Department Clean Water Act complaint against DC Water over the January Potomac Interceptor collapse that released more than 200 million gallons…
Our weekly survey of new research from policy institutes across the ideological spectrum, with attention to who funds the work, what the methodology shows, and how findings intersect with TIJ…
Weekly roundup of major investigations from ProPublica, OCCRP, AP, The Intercept, Reuters, Washington Post and others — with TIJ follow-up angles for each.
OCC interchange-fee preemption, SEC semiannual reporting proposal, CFPB Section 1071 final rule, HHS Section 504 deadline extension, EPA TCE postponement and more — the week of May 4–11, 2026 in…
TIJ's weekly fact-check examines five high-profile public claims — Trump on consumer confidence and oil, Kaptur on the $1B ballroom, Sanders on healthcare losses, and the White House on federal…
An Investigative Journal accountability digest. Records suggest the federal oversight community is operating at reduced capacity even as new fraud findings, whistleblower disclosures, and qui tam recoveries continue to pile…