OPINION

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.

The Democratic rising star alleged that Navient has saddled borrowers across the country with crushing debts.

GOP members of Congress are feeling intense pressure from major donors to pass a tax cut bill for President Donald Trump to sign into law.

The blockbuster bid comes at a time when companies in the technology, media and telecommunications space are competing to secure top spots in an industry that continues record-setting growth.

Democrats must reject their corporate donors and embrace Bernie Sanders' message by the end of President Donald Trump’s term, says Lee Carter who won a pivotal Virginia district. “If we haven't fixed our own house by then, we're in for a world of hurt.” 

Congressional staffers, lobbyists and think tank employees will get together for an annual D.C. tradition imbued with extra significance this year: the Tax Foundation’s gala, brought to you by 61 corporations interested in seeing their tax bills reduced.  

One year after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election, the Clinton Foundation has wound down a major initiative and is trying to revive its fundraising operation.

A group of bond insurers is pushing to avoid billions of dollars in payments to owners of Puerto Rico's debt, as the country struggles in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

Despite the Manhattan DA office declining to prosecute Harvey Weinstein or Trump’s children — and questions about campaign donations he received from lawyers and criminal defense firms — Cyrus Vance Jr. won easily. He vowed to make “sensible changes in political fundraising.”

Despite almost $3 million worth of ads bankrolled by a Koch-linked group to support his opponent, Democrat Ralph Northam won the Virginia governor's race.

The conservative mega-donor has stepped down as leader of his $97 billion hedge fund, but he already made big investments in President Donald Trump.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. commissioned an “independent” review of his own campaign finances. The group he chose has been bankrolled by Kroll Associates, the firm hired to investigate Harvey Weinstein’s accusers.

As New Yorkers headed to the polls, Cyrus Vance Jr.’s write-in opponent and his "scrappy campaign" made a last-ditch effort to oust the incumbent.

Bernie Sanders' top campaign adviser told IBT that “the DNC was not neutral.” New revelations spotlight systemic problems inside the Democratic party, he said.

Ed Gillespie, the Republican nominee for governor, has longstanding ties to the Koch brothers who have directed millions of dollars into efforts to elect him.

Days ahead of the election, the Manhattan district attorney explains why Congress should reject the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, and responds to recent questions about the impact of campaign contributions.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said experts who worried state parties could be used to route money around contribution limits were “divorced from reality.” Donna Brazile discovered he was wrong.

The controversial contract with Whitefish Energy limited labor-costs auditing. That’s commonplace on the federal level, “placing taxpayer dollars at risk,” said a recent report.

We must impose term limits and fundraising regulation, and candidates must reject murky contributions, says Marc Fleidner, who is running as a write-in candidate for Manhattan DA.

The Massachusetts Democrat told IBT that Navient should not be getting government contracts to manage student loans.

Moderate Republicans aren’t the only politicians running scared: A handful of Democratic senators are banding together to raise money for their 2018 reelection contests.

Millions of taxpayer dollars turned the solar boom into an import boom, decimating U.S. manufacturing and slowing action on climate change.

A new Defense Department report says U.S. taxpayers have spent $1.46 trillion on wars abroad since Sept. 11, 2001.

As the GOP works to take apart the Affordable Care Act, they may want to keep in mind a yearly fee that Obamacare imposes on insurers — the cost of which they pass to their policyholders while their profits continue to rise.

The man who introduced newly indicted Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to Team Trump is a real estate billionaire and one of the president’s best friends.

An out-of-control industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale, says a research analyst who studies the intersection of culture and economics.

The Senate voted to kill a rule that prevented financial firms from barring consumers from the courts. U.S. companies including the Trump Organization use similar agreements to keep workers from suing them.