Casey Michel

“Money, Lies, and God” argues that the failed January 6 insurrection didn’t discourage those who want to dismantle the republic. If anything, it emboldened the anti-secularists, biblical literalists, deep-pocketed donors, and misogynists who now comprise the core of Trumpism—and next time, they may succeed.

While the American people get saddled with the staggering cost of his trade war, the president has given the world’s worst actors the license to misbehave.

The quid pro quo deal between the president and the mayor of New York City will throw open the foreign corruption floodgates.

Trump’s one-time aide-de-camp and bagman for corrupt foreign regimes is returning to his old stomping grounds, rolling back precious progress against a world of kleptocrats.

Fresh reporting expands what we know about the consulting firm’s ever-growing web of services to corrupt regimes all over the planet.

From Switzerland to Qatar to Kazakhstan, the countries clamoring to entice the ultrawealthy with a suite of new privileges.

Her malfeasances may not be the most egregious, but they should provoke serious reform. No wonder Washington’s influence peddlers are circling the wagons.

Washington is crawling with lobbyists for dictators and other unsavory foreign leaders. Harris should promise to rid the capital of them.

Amid rumors that the oft-disgraced fixer might be making a return to Trump's orbit, it's worth revisiting his role in fostering the former president's animus toward the war-torn nation.

Once the redoubt of Reaganism, the think tank has taken to promoting Trump’s favorite strongman.

What keeps companies like McKinsey in the business of whitewashing the regimes of bloodthirsty dictators? Increasingly, it’s the consequences of crossing them.

Are foreign influence peddlers developing a taste for local and municipal politicians?

One of the only good transparency innovations of the Trump era has come to a quiet end.

For the first time, liberal opposition to the Ukraine invasion is beginning to reckon with Russia’s tattered empire—and a future without it.

This was the year the Saudi strongman was supposed to become a pariah. Instead, he’s gotten away with murder.

Any discussion of the region’s future shouldn’t give short shrift to the possibility of new nations emerging from under Putin’s yoke.

Putin’s most courageous and dogged opponent has been coy about whether the disputed region is part of Ukraine or Russia—and Ukrainians have taken note.

With Ukraine seizing momentum in the war, the time is ripe for Western political leaders to ponder a post-Putin future—and how to avoid the mistakes that ushered in his dictatorship.

The late Soviet premier is popularly regarded as a leader who ushered in a new era. The more complicated truth is that he failed to fully extricate himself from the old one.

Fresh reporting illuminates the role that Dmitro Firtash played in funding the operation that would end in Trump's first impeachment.