Scott Peterson
Scott Peterson is executive director of Checks and Balances Project, a national watchdog blog that seeks to hold government officials, lobbyists and corporate management accountable to the public. Funding for C&BP comes from sustainable economy philanthropies and donors.
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The second worst MAGA Trump calamity – more than equal to its Constitutional concussion
Robert S. Becker on the deeper, still-unfolding costs of Trumpism beyond its constitutional violations.
Breaking up hospital and drug monopolies could save families $6,000 a year, report finds
A 26-group coalition of pharmacists, physicians and patients says consolidation, not coverage gaps, is driving the crisis.
Thousands rally at Lincoln Memorial to defend voting rights
Civil rights leaders say this is the first march since the Supreme Court gutted a core Voting Rights Act protection.
House Democrat presses Trump Jr.’s venture firm on Pentagon-linked deals
A blocked March subpoena over a rare earth company's Pentagon loan set the stage for a new letter demanding records by September 9.
How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize
With a thousand DOJ monitors ordered to polling places this November and troops not ruled out, a People's Action coalition of 500 groups is organizing a Labor Day mobilization to defend the vote.