OPINION

Local governments and consumer protection groups wrote to the FCC Monday morning, asking the commission to delay its scheduled Dec. 14 vote on chairman Ajit Pai's proposal to repeal the Obama-era “common carrier” rules.

Documents reviewed by IBT show Bermuda and the Cayman Islands trying to prevent a crackdown on offshore tax maneuvers.

The Senate tax bill would keep the carried interest loophole and also allow some hedge fund and private equity managers to claim a new deduction. Backing the bill? GOP senators who benefited from campaign donations from Stephen Schwarzman, who heads the world’s largest private equity fund.

Trump's move to kill “net neutrality” rules has drawn outrage — but an obscure lawsuit could remove all the internet’s remaining free speech and consumer protections.

Uber covered up a massive hack that exposed the data of 57 million users.

In a new survey, nearly all millennials polled said they have or planned to donate before the end of 2017.

The Charles Koch Institute shared a Facebook post bemoaning subsidies to the farmers who bring you Thanksgiving. But Koch Industries has received $400 million in government handouts in the last decade.

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich told IBT that the Democratic Party “is just a big fundraising machine” now, and that the failure to fix structural problems in the economy helped Donald Trump win the White House.

Holiday shopping is in the home stretch, and there are still plenty of savings to be had in December.

Agencies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were set up to be independent and insulated from White House political pressure. But by naming only interim, acting chiefs, Trump keeps them on a short leash.

Provocateur James O’Keefe’s group, which tried to fool the Washington Post, has a history of failure — but its funding from far-right billionaires has kept growing.

Studies state most people with micromanagers quit their job within the first two years.

In a 2014 hearing, Mick Mulvaney hoped for the "continued viability and availability" of controversial payday and installment loans. Now Mulvaney might be in charge of policing those same products.

Wealthy GOP families and Republican politicians enable the group to spread its free-market principles and funnel thousands of dollars into student government elections to elect conservatives.

Streaming services are about more than just the music.

Current Chief of Staff Doug Friednash came to the Colorado governor's office from lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. The governor's office hired BHFS to work on the state's behalf. On Monday, it was announced Friednash was heading back to his old firm.

In a new study, researchers quantify the way firms respond to political risks. The results may scare proponents of a government free of private sector influence.

Actor Jason Segel told IBT that the Weinstein sexual harassment scandal tells powerful men, “You can't just take what you want.”

If you don’t have an Amazon strategy, you don’t have a business strategy, says the co-author of “The Amazon Marketplace Dilemma.”

Pensions, universities and nonprofits are stashing public money offshore, despite secret documents that acknowledge the risks.

The chemical company whose plant suffered multiple explosions during Hurricane Harvey has been sued by the Harris County Attorney's Office, seeking $1 million and changes to the company's emergency preparedness plans.

Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, who introduced a bill deregulating the payday loan market, is a top recipient of campaign cash from the industry, which has also engaged in considerable lobbying on Capitol Hill.

This season offers ample opportunities for career advancement and industry networking — if you do it mindfully.

Hurricanes have the potential to inflict significant damage to businesses — but it doesn’t have to be permanent.

Weakening unions' power is the dream project of some of the nation's biggest conservative funders and activists. The Supreme Court is likely to grant their wish when it rules later this term in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 31.

Members of the Republican Attorneys General Association dined with their biggest donors at President Donald Trump’s Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, last weekend.

Much of the private sector lobbied President Donald Trump to stay in the Paris Climate agreement. New research shows why he probably should've listened to them.

A case in front of the high court — Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — could strip public agency unions of much of their funding, with devastating effects on California’s labor movement.

President Donald Trump vowed to bring down high drug prices. Now he’s nominated Alex Azar, a veteran of a major drug company and a key lobbying organization for the biotech industry, for secretary of Health and Human Services.