Alysia Santo
Alysia Santo is a staff writer for The Marshall Project. Her investigative reporting on the criminal justice system has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Livingston Award in both 2016 and 2017 and a runner-up for the 2016 John Jay College/H.F. Guggenheim Prize for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting.
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Crypto, online betting and AI interests supplied 53% of the total, and the $737.3 million is 60% above the 2024 presidential cycle, Public Citizen found.
Montana passes Initiative 194, barring corporate election spending
The AP called the measure Tuesday with a margin of about 115,000 votes; it takes effect Jan. 1, 2027, unless a court blocks it.
With control of Congress, here’s how Democrats could stop Trump’s war in Iran
Democrats now are in a much stronger position to force Trump to end the Iran war. But playing their strongest card could backfire.
Trump’s State Department Is Giving $1 Million to Controversial Group to Study Crimes Against...
The new award, the administration’s latest show of support for the Afrikaner cause, comes after it cut human rights funding to nations in crisis. One former diplomat called the move “offensive.