Since the early 1990s, politicians have cited the threat of North Korea to demand funding for an array of missile defense programs that became monumental examples of government waste.
Making a Killing
Saudi Arabia’s well-funded public relations apparatus moved quickly after Saturday’s explosive execution of Shiite political dissident Nimr al-Nimr to shape how the news is covered in the United States.
The night before Congress passed legislation to expand surveillance power, legislators attended a party with the chief lobbyists for the bill.
Pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and market highly addictive opioid painkillers are funding nonprofit groups fighting against reforms.
A senior executive with the second-largest for-profit prison company in America assured investment bankers that the country will continue to "attract crime," generating new "correctional needs."
Consultants affiliated with Beacon Global Strategies provide high-profile foreign policy guidance to Democratic and Republican presidential candidates.
Fast, cheap, locally provided broadband threatens the big telecom companies' business model, so Rubio is against it.
Purple Strategies, a bipartisan lobbying firm, has business relationships on both sides of the gun control debate.
Americans for Peace, Prosperity, and Security is taking credit for getting Republican presidential contenders to call for escalating military action in Syria.
Les Moonves, the chief executive of CBS Corporation, cheered on Donald Trump during an investor presentation Monday and called the flood of campaign advertising dollars "phenomenal."
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