Who Controls Think Tanks? Shift In Funding Highlights Changes In The Industry
These are tough times for Washington's roughly 400 think tanks — the policy factories where scholars get paid to study issues and give politicians advice. Powerful external forces are reshaping the...
View ArticleThe Court Challenge Begins: Is Trump Taking Unconstitutional Emoluments?
On Wednesday morning, a federal judge in Manhattan will hear preliminary arguments in a case that claims President Trump is violating the Constitution's ban on accepting foreign payments, or...
View Article'Drain The Swamp'? Hardly. Washington Appears More Stuck In The Muck Than Ever
Washington used to operate one scandal at a time. Not anymore. Here are just some of the scandals currently brewing: The indictment of President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his...
View ArticleFederal Agency Drafts New Rules For Transparency In Political Social Media Ads
The Federal Election Commission is moving to improve disclosure of the money behind Internet and digital ads, as the shadow of Russian-funded social media ads in last year's presidential race hangs...
View ArticleTrump Wine: Local Promotion Or Presidential Product Placement?
President Trump has never been shy about promoting his businesses. Even at a press conference after the racially tinged violence in Charlottesville, Va., he paused for a product placement:...
View ArticleTax Bill Could Offer New Way To Funnel Political Cash — And Make It...
Wealthy Americans may get a new conduit for political money in the tax overhaul bill now being reconciled on Capitol Hill. A small provision in the House version of the bill would let big donors...
View ArticleSurvey Shows Americans Expressing Greater Concern About Government Corruption
Updated at 5:49 p.m. ET The anti-corruption organization Transparency International says Americans are expressing greater concern this year about wrongdoing within the U.S. government, and especially...
View ArticleFor 1 Attorney, A Lonely Legal Fight To Make Trump Comply With Rules
President Trump marks his first year in the White House on Jan. 20. Since he took the oath, he's been dogged by questions about his hundreds of businesses and the conflicts of interest they pose. In...
View ArticleFederal Judge Seems Sympathetic To Anti-Corruption Case Against President Trump
Updated at 1 p.m. ET Barely a month ago, a federal judge in New York dismissed an anti-corruption lawsuit against President Trump. But on Thursday, another federal judge, in a different courtroom, gave...
View ArticleWhy Trump Appointees Refer To 'Optics' When Discussing Spending Scandals
The way some of President Trump's Cabinet officials tell it, their recent negative headlines haven't been about difficulties complying with federal ethics laws, but rather about "the optics." Veterans...
View ArticleEmoluments Lawsuit Against President Trump Allowed To Proceed
Updated at 5:20 p.m. ET A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit alleging President Trump is violating the anti-corruption sections of the Constitution, known as the emoluments clauses, can proceed....
View ArticleFederal Election Commission Can't Decide If Russian Interference Violated Law
As tech companies and government agencies prepare to defend against possible Russian interference in the midterm elections, the Federal Election Commission has a different response: too soon. The four...
View ArticleEPA Chief's Latest Ethics Issue: Used Mattress From A Trump Hotel
Updated at 5:30 p.m. ET Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, already battling roughly a dozen ethics investigations, allegedly asked a top aide to obtain a used mattress from...
View ArticleTrump Organization Deals In Asia Fuel Debate On Emoluments Lawsuit
Updated at 2:19 p.m. ET The Foreign Emoluments Clause of the Constitution will be rendered meaningless if Democrats in Congress aren't allowed to sue President Trump for violating it, a lawyer for...
View ArticleA Lifetime Investment: Big Money Pours Into Supreme Court Battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhJW2f_sKBw President Trump hasn't yet nominated a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, but the fight over confirming that nominee began the day...
View ArticleFederal Lawsuit Against President Trump's Business Interests Allowed To Proceed
Updated at 5:00 p.m. ET In a blow to President Trump, a federal judge says a lawsuit that alleges Trump's business interests violate the Constitution can proceed. Federal District Judge Peter Messitte...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Can Trump Legally Keep Former Staff Quiet? Probably Not
Updated at 1:23 p.m. ET At Tuesday's White House briefing, press secretary Sarah Sanders misleadingly asserted that the Trump administration's use of nondisclosure agreements both during and after...
View ArticleSupreme Court Orders Disclosure For Dark Money, As New Report Unveils Some...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday insisted that many donations to predominantly conservative political nonprofit groups — what's often called dark money — be disclosed, seven weeks ahead of the 2018 midterm...
View ArticleThere's A $500,000 Gender Gap When It Comes To Campaign Fundraising
Gender gaps aren't just for the workplace, and the midterm elections are proving it. An NPR analysis of campaign finance records shows that Democratic women candidates face a fundraising gap, compared...
View ArticleKavanaugh Nomination Battle Is Fought With Millions In Secret Cash
Advocacy groups are ratcheting up the war over Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, shedding the last vestiges of a high-minded issues debate in favor of more acidic attacks on character...
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