Plus, researchers uncover a rare positive climate turning point, and both insider trading and pipelines come under scrutiny.
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Republicans’ temporary speaker, Patrick McHenry, received 90 percent of his campaign cash this year from lobbyists and industries he regulates — and only $856 from small donors.
The Biden administration is getting bad data and bad advice — but there’s a way out.
Obama’s former acting Solicitor General and a senator-turned-lobbyist are helping a dark money group pressure the high court.
How Warren Buffett’s billionaire son, Howard Buffett, took over a U.S. city and made it his personal playground.
The billionaire presidential candidate leveraged dark money connections amid an “anti-woke” crusade to access workers’ retirement savings.
In a trucking giant’s bankruptcy, workers and taxpayers get crushed, while a Trump-linked firm gets a government cushion.
The Florida governor pretends to attack the elites with an economic agenda that would preserve his big donors’ power over Americans’ lives.
The oil company whose vinyl chloride poisoned East Palestine gave $2 million to the Senate GOP as lawmakers watered down and stalled proposed reforms.
To get confirmed, the justice pledged to follow an anti-corruption law that he later ignored — now he says Congress can't regulate the Supreme Court.