How Rep. Ro Khanna Got a Price-Gouging Defense Contractor to Return $16.1 Million to the Pentagon
As a freshman, Khanna asked the Defense Department’s inspector general to look into Transdigm, a defense contractor with a monopoly over spare parts.
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Targeting Iran
Arms Manufacturers Tell Investors That Iran Tension Fuels Business
With much of the world on edge over simmering tension in the Middle East, and the U.S. threatening war with Iran, defense executives talked of opportunity.
How Bernie Sanders Accidentally Built a Groundbreaking Organizing Movement
Activists working on Sanders’s 2016 campaign innovated an approach to organizing that was replicated in Europe and is driving his current presidential bid.
Sanders, Warren, and Wyden Slam Assange Indictment, a Renegade Use of the Espionage Act to Criminalize Journalism
The indictment marks the first time the U.S. has used the Espionage Act to target a publisher.
The Trump Administration Wants to Make It Harder for Transgender People to Access Homeless Shelters
A new Housing and Urban Development rule would roll back Obama-era protections for transgender people.
Connecticut's Democratic Governor Is Stonewalling a Bill That Would Make Phone Calls From Prison Free
With two weeks left in the legislative session, Gov. Ned Lamont has yet to express support for the bill, which is the first of its kind in the country.
Pipeline Opponents Strike Back Against Anti-Protest Laws
Two lawsuits in Louisiana and South Dakota are the first signs of resistance to efforts by the fossil fuel industry to criminalize pipeline protests.
The Right Opens Up a New Front in the Census War: Criminal Records
In a congressional hearing, a witness from the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute said that the Census Bureau should ask about criminal records.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer Is a Really, Really Terrible Boss, Former Staffers Say
Former aides to Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., painted a portrait of a man who pits staffers against each other, screams easily, and throws pens with abandon.
The House Has Found Bipartisan Agreement on Reform to Retirement Accounts. Be Afraid.
It’s a textbook case of how broken Washington has become.