The massacre in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh did not take place in a vacuum—it is part of a wave of hate crimes sweeping our country. By Chris Hedges. (Nov. 5, 2018)

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.

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

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.

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.

Rather than actually fixing potentially serious F-35 design flaws, documents show, program officials are simply altering paperwork to make it appear as though the development process has been completed. By Dan Grazier.

Former Arkansas State Senator Johnathan Woods has been sentenced to 220 months in prison for a fraud scheme that involved another Republican legislator and the president of a conservative Christian college. Beginning in January of 2013, Woods and State Rep. Micah Neal gave $600,000 in taxpayer money to two non-profits in the state in exchange for bribes. One of those groups was Ecclesia College in the northwest part of the state. The small Bible school received the bulk of that money… but only because they agreed to give the politicians a healthy kickback.

The New York governor’s victory over Cynthia Nixon furthers the myth of the ‘inevitable’ candidate. By Matt Taibbi.

“We are about to drive a lot of dark money donors into the light—it’s gonna look like the climax of a Harry Potter movie where the creatures shrivel in the sun.” By Jon Queally.

The Federal Communications Commission's plan for spurring 5G wireless deployment will prevent city and town governments from charging carriers about $2 billion worth of fees. The FCC proposal, to be voted on at its meeting on September 26, limits the amount that local governments may charge carriers for placing 5G equipment such as small cells on poles, traffic lights, and other government property in public rights-of-way.

Mexican authorities have taken control of the entire police force in the southern Mexican city of Acapulco, claiming the department has been infiltrated by drug gangs. Two police commanders have been accused of murder, while the rest of the force officers have been stripped of their guns, radios and bulletproof vests and taken for background checks.

In October 2003, Billy Wayne Woods and his family packed into a luxury $181,000 motorhome for a fun getaway to Florida. Call it a textbook American vacation: their destination was Disney World, and with his wife, Shirley, his son and daughter-in law and two grandchildren in tow, the trip would surely be one to remember. But on the return home for the Alabama family, the vacation took an abrupt turn for disaster.

Thanks to years of organizing, we in the United States saved ourselves from the corporate-dominated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by ensuring that the controversial deal was universally reviled across party lines and could never gain a majority in Congress. But... By Melinda St. Louis.

President Trump's incoming national security adviser, John Bolton, ran a political action committee that paid Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the center of the Facebook controversy, $811,000 for data.

Why must we choose between the worst president of our lifetimes and a rapacious corporate enterprise, asks political analyst and author Thomas Frank.

The case for and against national Democrats intervening in primaries. By Ella Nilsen.

The Environmental Protection Agency is barring The Associated Press, CNN and the environmental-focused news organization E&E from a national summit on harmful water contaminants.

The Haditha massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of the Iraq War. This is the true story of why none of the perpetrators were brought to justice. By Adam Linehan.

The study, which was published in April, reveals that in countries with more women in political office, corruption is significantly lower. Let's be clear: this does not mean that women are more trustworthy or less likely to take a bribe than men. It also doesn't mean that they make better politicians.

Eliminating the bill was a top priority for Trump. So why did any Dems vote for it? By Matt Taibbi.

Last year, [2016] the US state department said it had uncovered a fake embassy in Accra that had been issuing a stream of forged visas. The story went viral – but all was not as it seemed. By Yepoka Yeebo. (Nov. 28, 2017)

F-35 versus A-10 fly-off designed to mislead? We take a look. By Dan Grazier.

A former minister who served under Zimbabwe's ex president Robert Mugabe was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to four years in jail on Friday, his lawyer said, the first conviction of a Mugabe-era official since he stepped down.

Ten years after Wall Street’s doomsday, how the financial meltdown broke the modern world and left us living in this one.

Do “financial services” include banking? Not according to the Trump administration… By David Sirota.

Federal authorities halted work on the massive Mountain Valley Pipeline this month after an appeals court ruled that federal agencies neglected to follow environmental protections. By Kate Mishkin, Beena Raghavendran, Ken Ward Jr.

Fatal accidents, off-the-books workers, a union once run by a mobster. The rogue world of one of New York’s major trash haulers. By Kiera Feldman.

A new documentary looks at Montana's fight against dark money in politics. By Bob Garfield with director Kimberly Reed.

Ten years after the American economy nearly pitched itself into the abyss, financial elites are again banking on ignorance and incompetence. By Chris Lehmann.

A pair of high-profile convictions implicate Donald Trump—but also serve as a reminder that only some people pay the consequences for systemic corruption in America. By Adam Serwer.

The buzz is that “we” have to “take back” the House and Senate in the November midterm elections. By Roger Harris.

The kinds of antics Manafort and Cohen have been prosecuted for went unnoticed when Donald Trump was a donor to the Democratic and Republican parties, and if he had stayed in his Tower doling out campaign contributions, they still would be. By Jim Kavanagh.

A lightning strike to the F-35B Lightning II could fry the onboard systems — or, assuming some of the concerns over non-inert fuel tanks have yet to be addressed, start a fire or cause the aircraft to explode. By Ryan Pickrell.

A crusading Russian official traveled to Estonia in the summer of 2006 to warn the authorities that an unprecedented money-laundering scheme had been established in the tiny Baltic financial sector. The scam he had uncovered would go on to become the biggest dirty-money operation in history: the $200 billion Danske Bank scandal. Three months after Andrei Kozlov, the first deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank, tried to raise the alarm, he was dead.

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