Elections Commission Chief Uses the “Nuclear Option” to Rescue the Agency From Gridlock
Joe Raedle/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fed up with the Federal Election Commission’s gridlock that has given violators of election law a free pass, the agency’s new chair says she won’t allow FEC lawyers to defend the government when the FEC has been sued for not enforcing the law. This drastic…
The One Thing All the 2020 Democratic Candidates Agree They Hate
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The field of Democratic candidates running for president in 2020 is still taking shape, but so far the contenders have agreed on one policy: Cash from corporate political action committees (PACs) is bad. That’s not an entirely new idea—in 2008 and 2012…
Trump Has Spent 75 Days of his Presidency at Mar-a-Lago
Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November 2018.Susan Walsh/AP/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump passed Super Bowl weekend at his Mar-a-Lago club and estate in south Florida, pushing the running tally of time he’s spent at the property since his 2017 inauguration to 75 days. The club doubled initiation fees after Trump’s…
Trump Will Give the Medal of Freedom to One of His Biggest Donors
Miriam and Sheldon Adelson at President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugurationRichard Ellis/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The White House announced today that next week President Donald Trump will award the Medal Freedom to seven American luminaries: Elvis Presley, Babe Ruth, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, former pro…
In 6 Western States, Voters Have a Chance to Fight Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Voters in six Western states—Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada and Washington—will head to the polls Nov. 6 with the chance to decide on hotly contested,…
John Adams’ Fears About America’s Future Feel Pretty Darn Prescient Today
National Gallery of Art Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During America’s first Gilded Age, in 1898, Sen. Mark Hanna was sufficiently candid when asked about his political principles. There are two political truths, the Ohio Republican observed: “The first is money. I can’t remember what the second is.” Now, during…