Since 2020, more than two dozen bills to strengthen congressional stock trading rules have died without a vote. The reason is structural, not procedural: the people who would pay the cost of reform are the ones voting on it.
AIPAC has spent $30.6 million to defeat progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan — the most it has ever directed at a single race. The shell PAC infrastructure behind that number is designed to make sure voters never see where the money came from.
Dozens of police officers have been accused of using Flock Safety's 80,000-camera surveillance network to track ex-partners and harass civilians. The company marketed the system as a crime-fighting tool — and left the keys entirely in police hands.
UEFA and CONCACAF have moved into open, public questioning of FIFA's leadership after Infantino's private equity plan collapsed — the most significant challenge to football's autocratic governance model in years.
Francesca Hong is running for Wisconsin governor on free childcare — and finding it lands across ideological lines. The deeper story is why a policy this popular took a pandemic to become politically viable, and who benefited from keeping it off the table.
OpenAI and Anthropic endorsed an employee petition calling for the government to 'deliberately pace' frontier AI development. Neither company has slowed down. The endorsement is not a brake — it's a buffer.
Willie Nelson's stand against an AI data center in Abbott, Texas, is drawing national attention — but the real story is how Big Tech uses state tax incentives to turn water-stressed rural communities into infrastructure sacrifice zones.
Marc Rosenblum built the most transparent immigration enforcement data system in DHS history. It went dark in January 2025 — the same month arrests surged past 10,000 in five days. His resignation is not the story. The information blackout is.
A bipartisan group of former FCC officials filed a formal warning this week: the early license review targeting ABC's eight stations is designed to intimidate broadcasters, not adjudicate a legal violation. The chilling effect isn't a side consequence — it's the goal.
An ICE health agency document confirms the administration subjected at least one hunger striker in immigration detention to forced feeding, catheterization, or involuntary blood draws — practices international human rights bodies classify as torture. The document was not leaked. The agency published
Kash Patel is suing The Atlantic for reporting on his conduct as FBI director. The lawsuit's legal merits will be decided by a court. Its political function — making coverage of the FBI director expensive enough to discourage — is already working.
The Trump administration has collected more than $13 billion from Venezuelan oil sales since January. A single $300 million transfer is the only documented disbursement. Congress has no idea where the rest went — and the fund was designed to keep it that way.
More than 11,500 people across nine states have been sickened in the largest known cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history. The FDA rule designed to catch contamination like this faster was delayed by the previous administration — after produce industry lobbying.
Washington and London are planning a high-level Hormuz conference, but no Gulf state has committed to joining — and the last U.S. attempt to build a maritime coalition around Iran collapsed when allies refused to sign on.
Liz Oyer was fired for refusing to recommend restoring gun rights to Trump ally Mel Gibson. Her Senate testimony isn't just about one official — it's a documented account of how the DOJ is being rebuilt to punish independence and reward compliance.
The same GlobalX aircraft that flew Portugal's national team to Dallas on July 4th ran ICE deportation flights the day before and after — including missions that sent Venezuelans to El Salvador's Cecot mega-prison in defiance of federal court orders. FIFA has not commented.