CORRUPTION

The words of the late, prolific Ohio lobbyist Neil Clark narrate a new HBO documentary from award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney about dark money’s nefarious and pervasive influence on politics from statehouses to the U.S. Supreme Court. A pay-to-play scandal that unfolded at the Ohio Statehouse and sent a top politico to federal prison is the focus of the first in a…

Elizabeth NicksonFebruary 22, 2025 Every person in your family or community living on nuts and bolts and berries has had his life stolen by the bureaucratic blob. So essentially the entire town of Washington, D.C. has been stealing. The anomalies are those who are not stealing. $4.7 trillion, almost impossible to trace, represents two-thirds of the…

City JournalFebruary 24, 2025Christopher F. Rufo, Hannah Grossman Intelligence officials maintained a chatroom to discuss polyamory and transgender surgeries, internal documents reveal. The “intelligence community” is one of the most powerful parts of the American national security apparatus. In theory, it works tirelessly to keep the nation safe. But according to internal documents that we…