While Trump Hyped Defense Jobs, Weapons Makers Were Exporting Their Operations Overseas
President Donald Trump talks with Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson at the Made in America Product Showcase at the White House in July 2018.Alex Wong/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Donald Trump tried to justify selling American weapons to Saudi Arabia last year, he claimed that arms sales…
Scientists Found Worrisome New Evidence About Roundup and Cancer
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The long-simmering debate about whether the world’s most widely used herbicide causes cancer has bubbled up anew. Glyphosate is the key component of weedkillers such as Monsanto’s Roundup. On March 12, attorneys made closing arguments in San Francisco on the first phase of a closely…
How Facebook and Amazon Help Hate Groups Raise Money
Karla Ann Cote/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook and Amazon appear to be helping hate groups fundraise through philanthropy tools hosted on their platforms. Mother Jones found dozens of white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ organizations that appear to have access to Facebook’s Fundraiser tool, which lets users and organizations collect…
The Government’s Failure to Block the Time Warner-AT&T Merger Could Lead to Even Bigger Monopolies
Igor Golovniov/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Justice lost its appeal of the politically charged AT&T-Time Warner merger last week, potentially putting some brakes on a burgeoning anti-monopoly movement and putting pressure on Congress to act instead. The case marked the first time in more than…
The New Chief Campaign Finance Regulator Has a Plan to Make Her Agency Matter for the First Time in Years
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ellen Weintraub, the sole Democratic commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, just became chairwoman of the agency in January and she’s already trying to shake things up at her “dysfunctional” agency. The FEC chairmanship, which rotates among the commissioners each year, is mostly a ceremonial…
Elizabeth Warren Announces Plan to Reject Big Donors
Larry Burton Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has decided to up the ante with her latest campaign finance pledge: No more fancy fundraising dinners, donor calls, or wooing wealthy donors. The 2020 Democratic candidate announced on Monday that her campaign “will be run on the principle of equal…