Investigating Power
In October, the American Academy of Sciences and Letters honored health economist Jay Bhattacharya with an award for intellectual freedom. The professor has been a go-to expert for Republican politicians and right-wing groups working to politicize public health and government efforts to control COVID.
With the nomination of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance for vice president at the Republican National Convention, the GOP has doubled down on its insistence on election denialism as central to its DNA.
Even before the Justice Department announced the federal indictment of former President Trump last week, the super PAC for Charles Koch’s political operation, Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action), had spent $347,022 in May to discredit his presidential bid in 2024.
The former North Carolina congressman and White House chief of staff, under investigation for registering to vote in three states, Meadows promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election that President Trump used to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters.
Youth lead the way demanding climate action.
During the Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, then-Senator Sessions made several statements about lying under oath, or perjury, as grounds for impeachment.
Scott Pruitt has provided just 411 of at least 3,000 documents related to an open record request submitted by Center for Media and Democracy in 2015
Last night, ALEC posted an op-ed trying to smear CMD as “fake news,” a bogus attack from the Koch-backed corporate bill mill.
Pretending not to know what people are asking about is the oldest dodge in the book.
A letter to Reince Priebus,Donald Trump’s incoming chief of staff, for threats he made against the director of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE).