Politics, Corruption & Criminality

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.

Rupert Murdoch has been described as perhaps the most destructive immigrant ever to become an American citizen—a fact that is hard to overstate.

Clarence Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.

Tommy Tuberville—responsible for holding up about 300 military promotion confirmations—represents Alabama but lives and votes in Florida. Why is he still in the Senate?

Along with voting rights, DeSantis and the malleable Florida Legislature have cracked down on political protest, asylum seekers, the LGBTQ, abortion rights and more.