Google Has Made Some Generous Contributions to Climate Change Deniers
David Paul Morris/Getty This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Google has made “substantial” contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis. Among hundreds of groups the company has listed on its…
Who’s the Secret Russian in the Indictment of Giuliani’s Pals? We Found Some Clues.
Booking photos of Lev Parnas, left, and Igor Fruman./AP When the US attorney for the Southern District of New York charged two associates of Rudy Giuliani and two other men on Wednesday with campaign finance violations, the indictment contained a big mystery. Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman—who had been helping Giuliani search for dirt on…
Remembering the Two David Kochs
Mother Jones illustration; Michel Delsol/Getty; Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP David Koch, who died Friday at 79, knew he was living on borrowed time. And for nearly three decades, time was generous with the loan. On February 1, 1991, he was in the first-class cabin of USAir Flight 1493 when the Boeing 737 collided with a SkyWest…
The Courts Won’t End Gerrymandering. Eric Holder Has a Plan to Fix It Without Them.
On a frigid March morning, Eric Holder strode into a brick union hall on the west side of Milwaukee, across from a credit union and an auto body shop. The Merrill Park neighborhood was once the center of the city’s Irish political machine, filled with stately Victorian houses—including the childhood home of Spencer Tracy—but it…
Head of Asian GOP Group Says He “Wouldn’t Rule Out” Illegal Foreign Donations to Trump
Donald Trump speaks at a fundraiser at Cipriani in New York, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017.Susan Walsh/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The head of a national organization of Asian American Republicans said he can’t “rule out” the possibility that Chinese citizens illegally used American straw donors to funnel cash…
Election Watchdog Hits Jeb Bush’s Super-PAC With Massive Fine for Taking Money From Foreign Nationals
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Federal Election Commission has hit Right to Rise USA, the super-PAC that backed Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid, with a record fine for accepting a seven-figure donation from a company owned by Chinese nationals who were in business with Bush’s brother, Neil,…