As we come to another contentious election cycle, understanding dark money will become increasingly important. Here are some of the basics.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Russia is close to having the upper hand Ukraine because of Putin’s ability to get American Republican politicians to mouth his talking points and propaganda.
Jim Jordan does not even qualify for Congress, much less Speaker. He was all in on the subversive plot to seize an unearned second term for the defeated president by invalidating millions of legitimate American votes.
DeSantis is using the horror of the Israel-Hamas war as a campaign stunt, to protect Florida from non-existence violence and calling himself the “most pro-Israel governor” in the country.
The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.
Trump and the rest of the anti-democracy right are creating an atmosphere of harassment and danger with the hope that judicial norms will dissolve and strong-arm threats will prevail.
If the six Republican SCOTUS justices rule the way the oligarchs who support their extravagant lifestyles want, America could be a very, very different place in just a few years.
Sunlight and accountability are still the best disinfectants and America needs to close this ugly chapter in our history with a sense of both finality and justice.
Kevin McCarthy is out of his depth and treading water, badly, while suffering under the delusion that he is somehow "the adult in the room."
Justice Thomas' billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow has a vested interest in weakening rent control laws across the country to buttress his real estate empire's profits.
The impeachment drive, led by an inexhaustibly inept James Comer, follows eight-months of claims of a "mountain of evidence" of Joe's and Hunter's crimes presents witnesses with no knowledge of anything.
In Texas recently, DeSantis was completely serious about calling for more burning more fossil fuels as a way to battle climate change. It’s like saying you’ll fight a flood by pouring more water on it.
DeSantis and his cronies claim they have passed bills that are "pro-educator." Teachers and their unions disagree, characterizing them as direct attacks.
The judge wrote that the Trump Organization's deceptive business practices were something out of "a fantasy world, not the real world."
The Putin Caucus in the GOP, along with the fossil fuel billionaires, appear quite pleased that they’ve succeeded in intimidating fact-checkers just in time for the 2024 election.
In a variety of Republican-led state legislatures, members are taking overt and covert actions designed to protect their majorities from voters whom they fear—correctly—want to vote them out.