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Members of Congress scoring personal loans from political supporters
It began on a golf course.That’s where textile executive George Moretz and now-Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., forged a friendship during the early 2000s. The two belonged to Grandfather Golf &...
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Campaign regulation foes targeting state-level restrictions
Federal courts — not the White House, not Congress — have triggered the most earthshaking changes in how recent U.S. elections are funded.Think Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, where the...
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Statehouses, not Congress, hosting biggest political money fights
There’s almost zero chance Congress will this year seriously consider a single bill aimed at reforming the nation’s weakened money-in-politics laws.Going local is a different story: State lawmakers...
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Democrats say ‘Citizens United’ should die. Here’s why that won’t happen.
Catastrophe seemed imminent.“In a certain real way, the republic is at stake,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.“We’re really stress-testing our democracy in a way we never have before,” said attorney...
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Can anti-Trump fervor win elections? These Democrats aren’t seeing the money
A groundswell of anti-Trump activism has helped inspire an expanded field of Democratic legislative candidates in Virginia this fall, but a Center for Public Integrity analysis found that those...
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Los Alamos laboratory director announces he will step down
September 6, 2017: This story has been corrected.The director of Los Alamos National Laboratory has told employees there that he will retire at the end of 2017, eight months before the private...
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Will Donald Trump let the Federal Election Commission rot?
The Federal Election Commission is running low oncommissioners.President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Republican Matthew Petersen to a federal judgeship, meaning the FEC is poised to putter on...
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Center for Public Integrity wins science journalism award
A landmark Center for Public Integrity series illuminating the troubling impact of distorted, industry-supported science has been honored by the National Association of Science Writers.The project,...
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How Trump’s immigration crackdown threatens ‘Made in America’ dairy-industry...
JEROME, IDAHO — Over 30 years, the jade-green Snake River, generous bank loans and old-fashioned muscle have transformed southern Idaho’s Magic Valley from desert to dairy powerhouse.In excess of...
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These companies support climate action, so why are they funding opposition to...
The international climate-fighting pact would create jobs, Google said. Leaving the deal known as the Paris accord would be bad for business, top executives from Bank of America and Coca-Cola argued....
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Ethics experts say Trump administration far from normal
AUSTIN, Texas — President Donald Trump’s young administration has already sharply diverged from the ethical norms that typically govern the executive branch, exposing vulnerabilities in the system, a...
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Your favorite companies may be political black boxes
You book a hotel on Expedia.com.You buy a Garmin to navigate highways.Finally, you stream Netflix movies to keep the kids occupied on the trip.Just know you’re patronizing companies that volunteer...
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CEOs scolded Trump after Charlottesville. Will corporations close their...
When President Donald Trump said counter protestors at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, should share the blame for violence there, the backlash was fast and furious.Among Trump’s...
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FEC fines contractor that gave pro-Clinton super PACs illegal cash
The Federal Election Commission has fined Boston-based Suffolk Construction Co., a federal government contractor, for making illegal contributions to a pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC, according to a...
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The future of the internet is up for grabs — theoretically
The Trump administration is weighing one of the most significant rulings on how the internet will operate in the future — broadly affecting both the U.S. economy and how Americans get crucial...
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Center for Public Integrity invests in future with new hires
The Center for Public Integrity has taken advantage of fresh investment and unprecedented interest in Washington, D.C.-based investigative reporting to hire a spate of new journalists, beefing up...
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Center for Public Integrity wins investigative reporting award
An in-depth Center for Public Integrity investigation unveiling close ties between state insurance commissioners and the industry they regulate has been honored with a prestigious Online Journalism...
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Donald Trump campaign ramps up 2020 re-election fundraising
New financial disclosures President Donald Trump’s re-election committee filed Sunday with the Federal Election Commission tell a story of two Trump campaigns.On one end, Trump, both by choice and...
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Car bomb kills crusading journalist in Malta who investigated Panama Papers
News sources today are reporting the tragic death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a journalist who reported on the Panama Papers investigation and was renowned for her own investigations into corruption in...
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Republican lawmakers’ posh hideaway bankrolled by secret corporate cash
Donald Trump declared last year in his populist presidential nomination acceptance speech that he’s “not able to look the other way” when the nation’s political system “has sold out to some corporate...
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