“Do you not want to answer my question?” By Edwin Rios.

Predictions about the mercurial Donald Trump are risky. Nonetheless, I cannot hesitate from making two… By John Dean.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren delivered a ferocious attack Monday on congressional Republicans and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over a medical research bill, and put fellow Democrats on the spot by pushing them to oppose a measure she said “is corrupt, and it is very, very dangerous.”

Australia has finally ceased pouring millions of dollars into accounts linked to Hillary Clinton’s charities. By Rohan Smith. [Autoplay video]

With President-elect Trump’s victory last night, the last hopes of the Obama administration passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during the lame duck session of Congress have evaporated.... We’re calling it: today is the day the TPP died. Nevertheless, the battle against the deal is not over...

Bernie Sanders supporters are fired up for a new issue — preventing the TPP to enter the lame-duck session. By Kate Aronoff.

The Empire Files

[South Korean] President Park Geun-hye is deep trouble. The stories have been out for a few days now, and even the English-language papers have caught on...

The agency's advisory panel meetings were postponed following intense lobbying by Big Ag industry, including Monsanto. By Carey Gillam.

Greedy super PACs drained the movement with endless pleas for money to support “conservative” candidates—while instead using the money to enrich themselves. I should know. I worked for one of them. By Paul H. Jossey. (Aug. 14, 2016)

"There have been hundreds of thousands of words, perhaps millions, written about the lack of performance of the Clinton Foundation in Haiti — and evidence of the ugly picture is in the fact that the best “program” the Foundation can come up with to feature after the hundreds of $millions were given after the Haiti earthquake is what I just documented — acting as a pass-through for funds to buy land for a boutique coffee company to single-source exotic coffee from one of the poorest countries on earth." By Amy Sterling Casil.

Key staffers quit amid lingering tensions from the Vermont senator’s campaign. By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Gabriel Debenedetti.

“The Foundation took its current activities and compiled them into a ‘mission.’ So our action words are ‘convene,’ ‘improve,’ ‘increase,’ ‘reduce,’ ‘create,’ and ‘help.’ In my estimation, the only part of that which is able to be documented is ‘convene.’ They do hold those gala meetings with regularity.” By Amy Sterling Casil.

Zephyr Teachout for Congress 2016

Conservatism in the tank. By Jim Newell.

A new batch of State Department emails includes requests to help a job seeker and a billionaire donor. By Eric Lichtblau.

With advice from Republican power lawyer Charlie Spies, APIC, a company owned by Chinese nationals, donated $1.3 million to Jeb Bush’s Super PAC. By Jon Schwarz and Lee Fang.

The fact that business groups are spending millions to influence pols to pass TPP shows the pact is in jeopardy. By David Dayen.

After Bernie Sanders attacked drug companies in his speech, drug lobbyists could be seen chatting with senior party officials over charcuterie and cheese. By Dylan Scott.

Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell fast-tracked a controversial piece of legislation aimed at overturning and preempting state laws for labeling foods made with genetically modified ingredients… By Chris Morran.