Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse used his 30 minutes of allotted time during Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing not to ask questions of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett—who repeatedly dodged the straightforward questions of other lawmakers—but to deliver a detailed presentation on the sprawling "dark money operation" fueling the right-wing takeover of the U.S. judicial system.
October 14, 2020Trump’s corruption illustrates the kleptocratic system created by a judiciary that would become even worse with Amy Barrett on the Supreme Court.
July 2, 2020When Roberts was nominated in ’05, few focused on his business fealty, but he was appointed because he represented corporate clients aiming to transform the court — which is exactly what he’s doing.
April 23, 2020The Trump administration has brought its brand of corruption and self-dealing to every agency in the federal government.
November 7, 2017Bill Moyers talks with Bill McKibben about his new novel Radio Free Vermont and the nonfiction ways to fight the system.
October 27, 2017A multimillion-dollar contract to restore power in Puerto Rico went to an administration ally.
October 23, 2017Corporate insider-turned-whistleblower Wendell Potter starts up an investigative website to expose corruption and show the public how to fight back.
July 20, 2017How a shadowy libertarian theorist convinced Charles Koch and others in the radical right that in order for their version of capitalism to survive, government must be destroyed.
February 15, 2017EPA nominee Scott Pruitt is fighting transparency, withholding thousands of emails that he doesn't want us to see before his confirmation vote.
January 27, 2017In just a few days, Donald Trump seems to have set out to wreck government and turn over the remains to his plutocrat friends.
