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By Christopher Weaver, The Wall Street Journal One doesn’t just wake up one morning and decide to reverse engineer the federal government’s convoluted Medicare Advantage payment system. Taxpayers spend billions of dollars each year on excessive payments to private insurers in Medicare Advantage, but it is shrouded in secrecy and fueled by vast reams of…

By April Simpson, Pratheek Rebala and Alexia Fernández Campbell Every investigative journalist has been there.  It’s early in an investigation, and the problem is the size of 27 football fields. That’s how much space the documents could cover if we laid them out. Where do we begin?  That’s how we felt at the beginning of…

By Lauren Caruba, The Dallas Morning News In the back of an ambulance in San Antonio, I watched as paramedics worked on a man they had pulled from a house with bullet-riddled windows and blood-smeared tiles. He had been shot twice, in the arm and chest. When I looked down at my shoes, I saw…

By Jason Grotto, Bloomberg News In December 2023, with the migrant surge at the US-Mexico border dominating the national conversation, Bloomberg data investigations reporter Eric Fan was crafting a series of Freedom of Information Act requests that would crack open another problematic part of America’s immigration system — the skilled-worker visa program known as H-1B.…