Investigating Power
Climate, Democracy, Environment
On Election Day, Florida voters helped send Donald Trump to the White House, reelected Marco Rubio to the U.S. Senate, and reaffirmed GOP majorities in the statehouse. At the same time, they rejected Amendment 1, a Koch brothers–backed ballot measure meant to stifle rooftop solar power.
Donald Trump has tapped conservative billionaire Betsy DeVos to serve as education secretary. DeVos is the former chair of the Michigan Republican Party and a longtime backer of charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools.
There are concerns about ethics and propriety after Donald Trump met last week with three business partners from India.
Just because the multibillionaires didn’t back a presidential candidate they were hardly idle. The Koch siblings sunk their tentacles — and cash — deep into local races, fielding 1,600 staffers in 38 states.
Trump’s attorney general nominee, who was rejected for district judgeship for alleged racist remarks, supports civil forfeiture and nonviolent drug prosecutions, experts say.
Hawkish trio — Jeff Sessions as attorney general, Mike Pompeo as CIA chief and Michael Flynn as national security adviser — have made inflammatory statements about race relations, immigration, Islam and the use of torture.
Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general is being met with alarm at the Justice Department’s civil rights division and could trigger an exodus there.
More than a dozen pro-democracy organizations and leading government ethics experts today urged President-elect Donald Trump to divest his holdings in his business assets.
The charter school industry is another government contractor that has resisted transparency in several states, even though its schools are publicly funded.
The charter school industry is another government contractor that has resisted transparency in several states, even though its schools are publicly funded.