The railroad lobby spent $653.5 million on federal lobbying over the past two decades, with the biggest splurges occurring between 2008 and 2012 where the industry lobbied against antitrust laws on the industry.
Ron DeSantis and his rubber-stamp Republican legislature are on a path to pass laws that will protect big companies from lawsuits for operating in bad faith and easier for officials to sue any critics for liable.
Ron DeSantis's is replacing board members of various groups that have opposed his far-right vision for Florida. And now he wants bloggers that write about him to register with the state. First Amendment anyone?
Universities used millions of dollars from Big Oil to fund research promoting natural gas as a "clean" alternative to oil and coal and downplaying the negative impacts of fossil fuel emissions.
New research shows a striking pattern of artificial shifting of paper profits to tax havens by multinational corporations, which has been relentless since the 1980s.
Five states now have elected or appointed Secretaries of State who have denied that Biden won the 2020 election, and they are in charge of their state's voting systems.
A bill introduced by Florida Republicans would make it easier for DeSantis to sue the press and stifle investigative reporting. Definitely unconstitutional.
A watchdog group tracked Trump money as it passed from his fund through an allied conservative group, to a shell company and then to contractors and individuals involved in the Arizona audit.
Thanks to the increasingly commingled worlds of politics and popular entertainment, the State of the Union address has devolved into something that resembles an awards show or grand fund-raising gala, except with hecklers.
Corporations that pledged to stop funding members of the "sedition caucus," those who objected to certifying the election, are quietly finding ways to give again.
Congress outlawed tax deductions on “wash sales” in 1921, but Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Steve Ballmer see huge tax savings by selling stocks for a loss and then replacing them with nearly identical investments.
A study conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found a link between dropping permit requirements for carrying concealed weapons and increased police shootings with civilian victims.
The federal government paid more than $478 billion from 2015 to 2021 in farm subsidies for crop insurance, disasters, conservation payments. And the top 1% collected 27% of the total.
In a dizzying display of twisted "logic," the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are not requiring repayments of funds stolen through rampant overbilling by Medicare Advantage plans.