A Democratic Firm Is Shaking Up the World of Political Fundraising
Grassroots Analytics exploits an ambiguity in campaign finance law, which is whether the company has in fact “obtained” information from FEC reports.
Politics
Intercepted Podcast
Donald Trump and the Media Temple of BOOM!
Investigative journalist Michael Isikoff, economist Stephanie Kelton, educator Noriko Nakada, and journalist Sarah Jaffe are this week's guests.
The War on Immigrants
Trump's Shutdown Offer Creates a De Facto Asylum Ban for Central American Minors
The GOP offer to Democrats would require Central American minors to request asylum from their home countries and sets a cap for granting asylum.
With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Americans Finally Have a Politician Who Agrees With Them About Taxes
The idea of raising taxes on the rich and corporations is incredibly popular in America — and has been for a long, long time.
Could Joe Crowley End Up Being a Lobbyist for Big Console?
Joe Crowley is K Street’s biggest whale for 2019. He may wind up at the Entertainment Software Association, a video game industry lobby group.
Voices
Beyond BuzzFeed: The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump-Russia Story
The most challenging task is choosing the 10 worst embarrassments. The most notable aspect is that they all go toward promoting the same narrative.
Voices
A Problem for Kamala Harris: Can a Prosecutor Become President in the Age of Black Lives Matter?
The regressive reality of what prosecutors do is proving difficult for the senator and likely presidential candidate to rationalize.
Henry Cuellar's Policy Preferences Could Destroy the World. But Then Again, He's a Really Nice Guy.
Politics are about hard choices. The planet or Henry Cuellar?
The End of Roe
Millions of Women Already Live in a Post-Roe America: A Journey Through the Anti-Abortion South
Across the United States, millions of women live with a legal right to abortion but without meaningful access to exercise that right.
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Trump’s Articles of Impeachment Are Writing Themselves, With Echoes of Richard Nixon Growing Stronger
BuzzFeed News dropped one of the biggest bombshells of the Trump presidency: that Donald Trump asked Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.