The email went out from senior Environmental Protection Agency officials to Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, responding to questions she had about a funding matter. But the acknowledgment email the EPA got back a few hours later wasn’t from the ambassador. By Ellen Knickmeyer.

The planes have had several previously unreported ‘category 1’ flaws—military parlance for issues that can prevent a pilot from accomplishing their mission. By David Axe.

Thanks to the diligence of one assistant state attorney, 119 cases were thrown out and the officer is under state investigation. By Katie Rose Quandt.

It’s not a proving ground for Capitalism vs. Socialism. It’s a story of corruption. By Mike Centeno. (Nov. 21, 2018)

Attorneys general from more than 40 states are alleging the nation’s largest generic drug manufacturers conspired to artificially inflate and manipulate prices for more than 100 different generic drugs, including treatments for diabetes, cancer, arthritis and other medical conditions. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Connecticut on Friday, also names 15 individual senior executives responsible for sales, marketing and pricing.

A dubious project raises serious questions about the world’s most prestigious consulting firm and its work for corruption-plagued regimes. By Ian MacDougall, Anand Tumurtogoo.

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel took advantage of his elite privilege and joined The Atlantic, a major media publication, as a contributing editor. By Kevin Gosztola.

The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have known for years that Saudi diplomats were helping Saudi fugitives. But Washington avoided even raising the problem out of concern that it might hurt Saudi cooperation in the fight against terrorism. By Sebastian Rotella, Tim Golden, Shane Dixon Kavanaugh.

Speaking truth to power has ruined Darin Jones, a former FBI contract specialist who reported evidence of serious procurement improprieties. He should be the last federal whistleblower victimized, writes John Kiriakou.

How the Maker of Junk Fighters Like the F-22 and F-35 Came to Have Full-Spectrum Dominance Over the Defense Industry. By Jeffrey St. Clair.

Three companies dominate the U.S. voting-maching industry. By Anders Melin and Reade Pickert.

United States elections are not evidence-based elections. Their potential vulnerability is critical because the entire system of our democracy depends on public trust—the belief that, however divided the country is, the result has integrity. Nothing is more insidious and corrosive than the idea that the tally of votes itself could be unreliable and exposed to fraud. By Jennifer Cohn.

This moment matters. It will be written into Wikipedia history by us, the liberals, because we write and edit socialist encyclopedias. By Marco Kaye. (Nov. 8, 2018)

Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Prosecutors, including future Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta, cut Epstein an extraordinary plea deal. By Emily Michot, Julie K. Brown.

Every new question we ask reveals that this President and this presidency is even more rotten than we realised.

While a noisy Supreme Court fight captivated America last fall, an obscure federal accounting body quietly approved a system of classified money-moving. By Matt Taibbi.

When George H.W. Bush arrived in Washington as vice president in January 1981 he seemed little more than a sideshow to Ronald Reagan, the one-time leading man who had been overwhelmingly elected to the greatest stage in the world... By Seymour M. Hersh.

Lori Loughlin’s daughter became famous on Instagram and YouTube, but now fans (and Sephora) are turning on her.

South Carolina sheriffs have embezzled, bribed and dipped into public funds for expensive chauffeurs. They’ve driven drunk and bullied other public officials. They’ve been accused of leveraging their power to sexually assault their female employees. While many South Carolina sheriffs have strong records of serving the public, others served themselves and their cronies, a five-month Post and Courier investigation found.

Of the many legal challenges President Donald Trump is facing, few have forced legal experts and historians to dig deep quite like claims that his private business dealings with foreign governments violate the Constitution. By Brad Kutner.

A tiny Ohio village was embroiled in controversy after a local police sergeant publicly filed felony charges against the mayor and police chief — and was immediately fired. Villagers were shocked when New Holland police Sgt. Charles “Brad” Mick walked into a village council meeting and announced he had just been fired, mere moments after he handed Mayor Clair Betzko and interim Police Chief David Conrad court summonses accusing them of a forgery scheme.

When a leader decides they have all the answers, and want the levers of democracy to align to their vision, only bad things can happen. By Adnan R. Khan.

The five biggest players in the industry gave $236,544 on average to the 62 senators who voted to approve Keystone.

The GOP legislators behind an open-Internet proposal received more cable-industry cash than most other members of Congress.

Corporations are now more important to the people's representatives than the people themselves. They no longer work for the public good.

Canada has again been scolded on the international stage for its “lack of progress” in fighting bribery and corruption by a watchdog agency that ranks it among the worst of nearly 40 countries. Transparency International, a group that monitors global corruption, put Canada in the lowest category of countries with “little or no enforcement” when it comes to applying bribery standards set out by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

For more than a decade, the New Jersey attorney general’s office conducted a hard-fought legal battle to hold Exxon Mobil Corporation responsible for decades of environmental contamination in northern New Jersey. But...

French authorities have fined the country's top yogurt makers €193m (£136m; $204m) for engaging in a price-fixing cartel for six years. Eleven firms - representing 90% of France's yogurt makers - were involved in setting the price of supermarket own-brand yoghurt and dairy products.

Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock resigned Tuesday, less than 12 hours after POLITICO raised questions about tens of thousands of dollars in mileage reimbursements he received for his personal vehicle.

The New Jersey Republican’s administration blocked a lawmaker’s open-records request for details about a $225 million deal. By Andrew Perez and David Sirota.

Recently I’ve been reacquainting myself with the stories of Clark Ashton Smith. Though he’s largely forgotten today, Smith was one of the leading lights of Weird Tales magazine during its 1930s golden age, ranking with H.P Lovecraft and Robert Howard as a craftsman of fantasy fiction. Like Lovecraft, Howard, and most of the other authors in the Weird Tales stable, Smith was an outsider...

Enviros thought this senator was on their side. Now they accuse him of shilling for the chemical industry.

SEC official slobbers over private equity titans, suggests his son might want a job in the field. By Matt Taibbi.

The 12-nation accord would let foreign corporations challenge American actions and regulations that hurt their business, a classified document obtained by The Times says.

Thermal optic imaging and night vision devices to spot roadside bombs went missing and ended up online, says a Navy document.