Nicaragua to sign Paris agreement, leaving Trump alone with Syria
Ortega's move leaves Trump in a two-member club with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, one of the world's most brutal dictators.
On the brink: Supreme Court may endanger Voting Rights Act’s legacy
Facing a historic legal challenge, the Voting Rights Act's future hangs in balance.
The IRS tried to take on the ultrawealthy. It didn’t go well.
by Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel
On June 30, 2016, an auto-parts magnate received the kind of news anyone would dread: The...
‘Democracy dies…in the early morning light’ as Wisconsin GOP rams through ‘lame duck legislative...
"This is outrageous abuse of power and should be huge national scandal."
Oil and gas inundated Facebook with election season ads after Biden released climate plan
ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute were top spenders in a $9.6 million election-year fossil fuel marketing blitz targeting U.S. Facebook users.
GOP pushes for even larger Pentagon budget amid ‘unconscionable’ profiteering
"Free advice for the speaker of the House: if you want to cut spending so bad, start and end with the Pentagon budget," said one watchdog group.
How to read Donald Trump
On burning books but not ideas.
D.C. and Maryland attorneys general file federal lawsuit against Trump
“It puts our democracy at risk when a president puts his financial interests before the American people.”
Does the United States have a ‘strong’ economy?
The bottom line: The economy that America’s rich run is doing quite well for America’s rich.
Democrats urged to fight for bigger relief checks as lame-duck Trump privately backs payments...
"Trump is privately demanding $2,000 stimulus checks. McConnell is quietly fretting over Georgia. Democrats control the leverage, they should demand larger stimulus in the package being negotiated."