Politics, Corruption & Criminality

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.

The decisions came despite the Judicial Standards Commission’s recommendations to publicly reprimand the judges, and these are likely the only times in more than a decade in which the court didn’t follow the commission’s guidance.

Georgia state leaders have compromised the safeguards that protected the integrity of the vote in 2020.

As allegations against Trump mount and the costs of defense rise, his campaign and political committees have quickly ramped up legal spending—and fundraising efforts to cover those expenses.

No matter how hard Republicans try to reinvent the Founders and Framers in the image of their libertarian billionaire patrons, the reality is that America was history’s first great liberal experiment.

Armed groups in Arizona and Texas are collaborating with and courting police and immigration agents—with alarming results.

Kari Lake's unceasing efforts to overturn her 2022 election loss are as unabated as Donald Trump and his complaints about losing in 2020. And seem to be just as destructive to attorneys.

The Rice’s whale is the only one that lives entirely in the Gulf of Mexico—a species definitely endangered. And Matt Gaetz wants Congress to OK the military bombing the heck out of them.

Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more. If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime.

The techniques of irregular warfare are part of what helped the US and western Europe bring down the Soviet Union. Now fascists like Putin and others are applying them back against the United States.

Apparently there are few rules guiding required professional development credits for public school teachers in Washington state. Under a new law, that’s about to change.

With Medicare Advantage we are handing billions of dollars a month to insurance industry executives so they can buy new Swiss chalets, private jets and luxury yachts.

With these two medications reclassified as dangerous drugs, medical professionals would be required to have a special license to prescribe them.

DeSantis claims record high temperatures, rising sea levels and dying coral reefs are conditions only environmental zealots care about.

Trump is well known for publicly bullying his political rivals, but the former president’s campaign has also used similar tactics to launch private, relentless attacks against some of its own workers.

Across the country, the Republican Party’s rank-and-file have turned on the GOP establishment. In Michigan, this schism broke the party—and maybe democracy itself.