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August 2, 2026
Opinion
In India and the United States, documented records show federal education grants worth billions being conditioned on political compliance — and the paper trail is only partially visible.
August 1, 2026
Opinion
India's Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act has frozen hundreds of millions in civil society funds since 2014, while the financial architecture feeding government-aligned organizations remains entirely unaudited.
August 1, 2026
Opinion
Federal records show the crop insurance industry spent $3.2 million in PAC contributions concentrated on Agriculture Committee members, then watched Congress deliver $6 billion in new premium subsidies in July 2025.
July 30, 2026
Opinion
A peer-reviewed study confirms campaign contributions statistically increase the odds of receiving tariff exemptions — and agribusiness spent a 20-year record to play that game.
July 30, 2026
Opinion
Federal lobbying disclosures show AstraZeneca outpaced the pharmaceutical industry's average lobbying surge by more than double as it negotiated a government pricing agreement whose full terms remain hidden from the public.
July 29, 2026
Opinion
When regulators chose not to require corporations to disclose political spending to shareholders, they handed the tax-lobbying industry a structural shield that has never been removed.
July 28, 2026
Opinion
Indian public records show a sitting Congress MP chaired a steel company that received coal block allocations from a screening committee his own party controlled — a conflict at the heart of a $33 billion governance failure.
July 27, 2026
Opinion
When the White House controls who pays tariffs and who doesn't, corporations spend millions buying access to that discretion — and the public record shows exactly who hired whom.
July 27, 2026
Opinion
Public filings show oil companies spent tens of millions lobbying Sacramento while collecting profits California's own governor calls 'shrouded in mystery.'
July 26, 2026
Opinion
Two Sullivan County producers used a state administrative law to deploy New York taxpayer resources against a New York City regulation, and the public record still cannot account for what it cost.
July 25, 2026
Opinion
A merger worth billions, a lawsuit against a news program, and a regulator who serves at the president's pleasure have converged into a documented pressure system targeting broadcast license holders.
July 23, 2026
Opinion
The death of Senator Lindsey Graham has frozen one of the most powerful Senate fundraising operations in U.S. history, and federal records will determine who inherits its donors, its surplus cash, and its outside-spending allies.
July 22, 2026
Opinion
A statutory crude-oil buying obligation, a $2.8 billion lobbying apparatus, and an Energy Secretary drawn from the industry it now regulates form a documented feedback loop at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
July 21, 2026
Opinion
Public records connect defense industry financial interests, a former Raytheon executive who became Secretary of Defense, and a post-strike lobbying surge to the sustained U.S. confrontation with Iran that began February 28, 2026.
July 21, 2026
Opinion
A federally engineered lease fee disparity is driving farmland conversion debates while fossil fuel producers quietly pay less for public land than solar developers — and the lobbying money on both sides tells the rest of the story.
July 20, 2026
Opinion
The federal government has stood up a multi-agency UAP advisory architecture with real statutory authority and real procurement power — and the public cannot identify a single official running it.
July 20, 2026
Opinion
A single Washington lobbying shop collecting $520,000 from a Ukrainian defense industry group while simultaneously representing Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics sits at the center of a $51.5 billion-per-quarter influence ecosystem built around Ukraine's survival.
July 19, 2026
Opinion
Across two administrations, the Justice Department used grand jury subpoenas, FISA database queries, and gag orders to monitor the communications of sitting lawmakers — spending from a $38 billion annual budget with no itemized accountability for any of it.
July 19, 2026
Opinion
From North Macedonia's ruling party to U.S. Super PACs, documented public records reveal six distinct mechanisms by which political funds are diverted from voters to power brokers — and the regulatory gaps that make it legal.
July 18, 2026
Opinion
Federal regulators accelerated a rare license review of eight ABC stations years ahead of schedule, but Disney's actual lobbying expenditures — the money meant to prevent exactly this — remain undisclosed to the public.
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