In today’s political climate, it is easy to focus on each day’s new flood of awfulness and lose sight of The Big Problems. But rest assured, the biggest problem of all—inequality—is still getting worse. And now it’s getting worse in a more malignant way.

Less than a week ago, the New York Times endorsed incumbent governor Andrew Cuomo in his reelection campaign ahead of his primary against progressive challenger Cynthia Nixon. Now, they’ve put out another Editorial Board op-ed condemning him for aggressive smears against her campaign.

An investigation has accused former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen of pushing out rent stabilized tenants in New York apartments. The Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) reports that Cohen faked documents so it would appear that no one lived in his buildings in order to get construction permits. The construction was used to…

In a speech to the National Press Club on Tuesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren unveiled a bill that would dramatically overhaul the way Washington D.C. does business—cracking down on lobbyists and special interest groups, embracing tightened ethics restrictions on elected officials and judges, and subjecting people to…

California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife, Margaret, were indicted by the Department of Justice today for misuse of campaign funds and filing false campaign finance records. According to the 48-page indictment, the Hunters spent $250,000 of campaign funds on personal expenses that included trips to Italy…

New York Republican Congressman Chris Collins is dropping out of the race for reelection after facing charges earlier this week of insider trading and lying to federal agents.

In April, Trump donor Franklin L. Haney apparently agreed to pay Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen a $10 million fee for successfully lobbying for the building of an unfinished nuclear power plant in Alabama, according to the Wall Street Journal. The contract also asked Cohen to secure a $5 billion loan from the…

If you want to see clearly the actual aims of business, look at what their lobbying arms do. It is nothing but bribe-based rent-seeking covered by a thin, grimy layer of propaganda.

Devin Nunes, the Republican representative from California, and the House Intelligence Chairman, spent $15,000 of his campaign donations on tickets to Boston Celtics basketball games (despite living in Southern California), and even more on winery tours and trips to Las Vegas, according to reports from the Federal…

Biscayne Park, a suburb north of Miami, is at the center of a scandal over police corruption that has led to the indictment in federal court of former police chief Raimundo Atesiano and two officers, according to an exhaustive report from the Miami Herald.

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Remember Halliburton, the oil company formerly led by Vice President Dick Cheney, which the Bush administration rewarded handsomely with no-bid government contracts? Well, they’re back in the news because time is a flat circle, and we’re all dead already.

Is it just me, or is it the season for unscrupulous ethical behavior in D.C.? The latest incident may have flown under the radar, what with literally every breath Scott Pruitt has taken over the past year, but the Washington Post reported on Friday that the National Institutes of Health had to cancel a 10-year, $100…

Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is the best example of the Trump administration’s flagrant, unbridled corruption—aside from Donald Trump himself.

The New York State Attorney General’s office is suing the Donald J. Trump Foundation, President Trump, and Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Trump Jr. for what it described as “a pattern of persistent illegal conduct” stemming from “repeated and willful self-dealing transactions to benefit Mr. Trump’s personal and business…

One of Scott Pruitt’s closest allies in the Republican Party had admonishments on Wednesday for the cabinet official who has been using the EPA like his personal checkbook. Senator Jim Inhofe, a fellow conservative from Pruitt’s home state of Oklahoma, said that it might be time to swap Pruitt out, amid the most…

In case you hadn’t heard, Marilyn Pruitt, wife of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, really wants a job. A stay-at-home mom since the ’90s, she appears to be very bored in D.C., so bored in fact that her husband has been scrambling to find her something to do since she arrived.

Congrats to the Democratic Party for ceding the moral authority to make corruption a campaign issue, all to protect one mediocre incumbent from a deep blue state. Senator Robert Menendez, who not along ago was a hung jury away from a federal corruption conviction, won his primary election Tuesday, after the New Jersey…

Mick Mulvaney doesn’t want his own job to exist, and has readily said so. On Wednesday, Mulvaney, who serves as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting director, fired his 25-member advisory board en masse, honoring his commitment to dismantling the bureau from the inside.

In case you’re still able to think the words “Scott Pruitt” without your next thought being “insanely corrupt,” the Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Pruitt used Environmental Protection Agency resources to try to help his wife buy a Chick-fil-A.