Kashagan oil complex. Photo: kapital.kz. Used under Creative Commons license Unaoil, a lobbying firm based in Monaco, is being investigated by authorities in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. […] More

CIA Flight Map. Courtesy Reprieve. Khaled al-Masri, a German citizen, was kidnapped January 2004 in Macedonia, then tortured and interrogated by U.S. authorities for alleged links to terrorism. When […] More

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Remember when Senator Baucus, a Democrat, said Obamacare was going to be a “giant train wreck”? Well… The warning to consumers from Tavenner, the former administration official who headed the […] More

Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock July 16, 2016 — The reports are in. Yesterday, the 2016 presidential candidates turned in their FEC filings disclosing how much their campaign committees have raised to date. […] More

In war zones, private contractors can outnumber U.S. troops, but who controls them? NPR’s Rachel Martin speaks with Stanford’s Joseph Felter and journalist Pratap Chatterjee about current safeguards. via War […] More

Hoist the colors. This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post. The Supreme Court just decided an incredibly important case called McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (FEC). The Court’s […] More

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