Federal Job Cuts Hit Black Women Hard—a Year Later, Unemployment Is Up

Republicans Are Triple-Dipping Funding for Mass Deportation

ICE and CBP have gotten nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars under Trump in the last year. The GOP is still trying to add more.

Pulte or Not, the Surveillance State Won’t Stop

The government’s sweeping spying powers will remain in place for a year, regardless of who becomes director of national intelligence. Both sides are pretending that’s not the case.

The Threat of Big Insurance

The industry is hugely lucrative, with endless sums of cash to influence lawmakers. A new report tracks 25 years of health insurance industry donations.

The Right Voting Reforms—and the Wrong Ones

Insurgents are defeating establishment candidates across the country. But bad election laws and Trumpian interventions could frustrate these trends.

Organized Money: California Dreamin’ … of a Slush Fund for Uber

Regulatory capture could be the grandest scam ever, and California is the Wild West.