The “Alliance” that paid for the ad doesn't have to disclose its donors and counts Tomi Lahren, Rudy Guiliani and Newt Gingrich as advisers.
Connecticut state senators fighting alleged price-gouging by insurers faced resistance from the state's executive branch, where conflicts of interest abound.
A Q&A with Colorado state Rep. Mike Foote, who has introduced bill after bill promoting safety in oil and gas drilling, only to be stymied by the fossil fuel industry's control of the state Senate.
The president's vow to "destroy" the Johnson Amendment could bring more tax exempt donations into the kind of group that helped launch Steve Bannon's career.
President Donald Trump wants to give the nation's air traffic control system to a private corporation — which could quickly come under control of the airline industry.
"That's always an aspect of it, is partisan opportunism," Greenwald said. But as long as the material is authentic, journalists should not make publishing decisions based on a leaker's motives, he said.
Exxon, Shell, Peabody Energy, Arch Coal and Statoil together put millions into lobbying efforts related at least in part to the Paris Climate Agreement — and have also invested in preparations to comply with new strictures.
ExxonMobil shareholders are debating a proposal that would disclose the oil giant's lobbying efforts — including payments to trade associations lobbying against measures ExxonMobil publicly supports.
President Donald Trump's budget blueprint includes a measure unleashing a public works program that has served as a boon for a handful of infrastructure and investment firms from Spain, France, Australia and the U.K.
IBT sat down with a longtime Montana political operative and adviser to the state's governor to understand how Greg Gianforte's alleged assault on a journalist could impact Thursday's election.
The former Connecticut senator had ties to a variety of groups that could have benefited from having an ally in the FBI.
Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman appealed a ruling that required the state's oil and gas commission to protect public health and the environment.
Joseph Lieberman's conflicts of interest aside, his appointment as FBI Director would likely be a boon for post-9/11 government surveillance and monitoring of its citizens and individuals overseas, and a blow to whistleblowers.
The leader of a moderate group of House Democrats is holding a fundraiser at the home of a Wall Street lobbyist as Congress debates removing key financial regulations.
The hardest truth about this series of attacks is that it could have been prevented by patching and keeping core software and technology systems up to date.
Voters in Los Angeles will vote Tuesday to decide the most expensive school board race in U.S. history — and maybe the future of charter schools in the city as well.
Among those living in the U.S., the foreign account threshold is lower, at $50,000 for single filers and $100,000 for joint filers.
First quarter lobbying disclosures show the energy sector has an interest in legislation that could penalize Russia for interfering in last year's election. Meanwhile, Russian groups hired their own lobbyists to work the Capitol.
If confirmed, David Bernhardt will transition from lobbying on behalf of fossil fuel companies to overseeing their drilling rights.
A conservative group wants to drain ad funding from media voices that it says are "hostile to the Trump administration."
A Halliburton's donation to the Colorado Republican party raises concerns. Without reforms to open public financing Senators will continue to rely on industry cash
Big health insurers' support for protecting patients with pre-existing conditions has a lot to do with whether the U.S. government is helping poor people buy insurance and penalizing all people who don't.
State governor Greg Abbott's law to force officers to question citizens fails to address immigration in a constructive way.
A Colorado ethics watchdog eyed the oil and gas industry’s power: “It’s not common to see a contribution that’s so closely timed to legislative action like that,” he said.
Amid the furor over health care, a bill to roll back many of the biggest financial reforms in recent memory cleared its House committee Thursday, with plenty of financial support from Wall Street giants.
Cory Doctorow suggests in his new novel that computer technologies can be used as a tool of liberation rather, not for control by the state and corporations
Despite Donald Trump's executive order, even when the federal government favors U.S. companies in the procurement process, those firms export the jobs to foreign workers.
The “sharing economy” doesn't exactly share the wealth. Companies like Uber, Lyft and Airbnb make millions of dollars and pay lobbyists to help keep their tax bills low. States, cities — and workers — are coming up short.
Financial industry groups are pressing for a bill to block states' savings programs for millions of workers, worried that the plans might undercut their business.
California lawmakers are weighing a single-payer insurance proposal. Sen. Feinstein dismissed the idea — and accepted big money from the health-care lobby.
