Money and Democracy
What happens when you follow the money? We dig deep to reveal what drives power and influence in the United States.
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Published — September 12, 2019
You donated to kids with cancer. This Vegas telemarketer cashed in.
Inside his machine that turns charitable and political contributions into paydays.
Ten city governments from Arizona to Pennsylvania say the president’s political committee has stiffed them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Copy, Paste, Legislate
Published — April 4, 2019
Used car dealers didn’t want to fix deadly defects, so they wrote a law to avoid it
Dealers are pushing copycat legislation that allows them to continue selling recalled used cars without fixing them first. Consumer advocates say that’s a cop-out.