Congressional bribery

View In: Congressional briberyA senior congressional staffer quits and goes directly to work for an authoritarian foreign government — it's legal and happens all the time.

View In: Congressional briberySAN FRANCISCO, CA—In a move to make sure criminals are treated fairly, San Francisco has instituted a policy of referring to "convicted felons" by the much more politically correct term "elected officials."

Letters from an American
View In: Congressional briberyToday’s big news is an eye-popping $1.6 billion donation to a right-wing nonprofit organized in May 2020. This is the largest known single donation made to a political influence organization. The money came from Barre Seid, a 90-year-old electronics company executive.

Original Journalism from OpenSecrets News
View In: Congressional briberyLobbyists raked in $2 billion through Q2 2022 for the first time ever.

Counter Punch
View In: Congressional briberyIn my post-journalism retirement, I drive rideshare in the Southern Indiana college town of Bloomington. Every week features random encounters with about 75 citizens who hail from all walks of local life: people of all colors, races and genders, hourly workers, university professors, probationers, colleg...

Jacobin Magazine
View In: Congressional briberyA 2007 law requires retiring lawmakers to notify a congressional ethics committee when they begin negotiating for a new job. But in the fifteen years since the law took effect, more than five hundred federal lawmakers have retired, with many taking lucrative gigs as lobbyists, lawyers, or trade associatio...