Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. is in “decline” and embraces a cultish tech movement to build “network” societies beyond the reach of nation-states—and he’s got Congress eating out of his hand.

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

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have been caught at a new grift, just months after being hit with a settlement payment for a voter intimidation scam.

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

Missouri Representative Cori Bush has begun to slip in the primary polls.

Who could have guessed this one?

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

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

Industry giants and cellular-meat upstarts are in a lobbying war over consumer labeling.

The same day Earthshot awarded $1.2 million to start-up Notpla and its petroleum-free seaweed packaging, negotiations to curb plastics production failed miserably.

Households preparing for a 30 percent price hike may not know their dollars are going to trade associations that oppose the very changes that could reduce their bills in future.

Embracing the bitcoin industry’s regulatory agenda is not the answer to the crypto crash.

Borrowing a page from the fossil fuel industry’s playbook, meat’s “merchants of doubt” are funding questionable research and lobbying to keep meat reduction off the table.

A new piece of bipartisan legislation seeks to purge This Town of foreign influence peddling—all of it.

Trump’s son-in-law may be the hot new player in Washington’s seamy influence-peddling game, but he’s following in the footsteps of many of the Beltway’s major players.

Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar’s not the only lawmaker illicitly involved with the regime, he’s just the one who (maybe) got caught.

The president has the power to reform the wayward Tennessee Valley Authority. It’s a bigger deal than you think.

One of the best ideas in Build Back Better is dead, and the higher-ed lobby deserves some blame.

The industry’s titanic profits power a perpetual stranglehold over our government with only one goal in mind: raking you clean of every last dime.

The FDA should be our toughest regulatory body, but the pharmaceutical lobby has torn it to shreds.