How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades

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.

Fidgeting, whistling, sweaty palms. These are just a few of the suspicious signs that the Transportation Security Administration directs its officers to look out for in airport travelers, according to a confidential document obtained...

Fear is Wang Qishan’s favoured weapon. As leader of the Communist Party’s most sustained and wide-ranging anti-corruption campaign in its history, he often urges...

Instead, the court will decide the matter based on hundreds of pages of briefs that have been filed in the cases, mostly in secret.

Authors can pay open-access journal extra to get reviewed in less than 3 weeks

Two weeks ago, several busloads of New Yorkers made a pilgrimage to Greenwich, Conn., to visit the waterfront estate of the hedge fund titan Paul Tudor Jones II, where, suffice it to say, they were not invited in to see the china. It was a rainy Saturday afternoon and the protesters, many of them ordinary working people who have felt cheated by the inequities of a tax system that favors the rarefied few, were there to...

The recently-released 9/11 Commission's review of FBI tactics in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks seems to suggest the agency should perform even more racial profiling than it already does. As Kevin Gosztola of Firedoglake points out...