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Month: December 2022
2022’s Most Unexpected Winners and Losers
Generally, we don’t like to endorse zero-sum views of the world, but it was hard to miss the seesaw effect at play across the political landscape of 2022. So we offer for your amusement (or annoyance, depending on your political priors) 11 sets of paired winners and losers — the people, ideas and movements that
How Justice Kagan lost her battle as a consensus builder
Speaking at a small university in Rhode Island earlier this year, Justice Elena Kagan committed an act of Supreme Court heresy. For years, justices have told the same anecdotes to assure the public that — despite the court’s increasingly polarized decisions in high-profile cases— the powerful jurists are committed to putting the best interests of
Read Trump’s unsealed tax returns
House tax writers released a portion of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns on Friday, despite his best efforts to keep them under wraps. The documents, spanning 2015 to 2020, are a road map to Trump’s wealth, the performance of his business empire and how he was able to reduce his tax liability to little
Trump’s tax returns released, launching fresh scrutiny of his finances
House Democrats released several years’ worth of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns on Friday, launching what is sure to be another round of intense scrutiny of his finances. The drop marks an extraordinary step by the House’s top tax writer, Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.), who had been engaged in a 3½-year
Trump taxes show foreign income from more than a dozen countries
Donald Trump’s tax returns show the former president received income from more than a dozen countries during his time in office, highlighting a string of potential conflicts of interest. Trump’s returns, which were made public by House Democrats on Friday after a lengthy legal fight, disclosed income from 2015 to 2020 from a wide range
Conservatives’ latest McCarthy ask: A broad Biden admin investigation
House conservatives are upping their demands on Kevin McCarthy as he tries to lock down the speaker’s gavel. Their new price: a select committee with a huge scope of targets. While the Republican leader and soon-to-be committee chairs have already lined up a laundry list of investigations that will largely command the House GOP’s agenda
McCarthy struggles to appease conservative demands as speakership battle nears
In a private meeting last week, Kevin McCarthy posed a question to some of the conservatives threatening his speakership bid: Would they all support him if he made it easier for members to depose the speaker? The House Freedom Caucus members in the meeting had pushed for that concession for months, one that would severely
Ethics questions on fundraiser, expenses and more: Where George Santos’ many scandals stand
Every day brings Rep.-elect George Santos closer to his official Congressional swearing in. Every day also seemingly reveals further problems for the scandal-plagued New York Republican. The unraveling of Santos’ campaign narrative started with a New York Times exposéon Dec. 19 that called into question claims he’d made about attending Baruch College, working at Goldman
Who is Andrew Tate? Your guide to the self-styled misogynist influencer
Tate, a highly controversial social media celebrity, started his week as the butt of a joke by Greta Thunberg and ended it by reportedly getting arrested in Romania. Here’s what you need to know. (Image credit: Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea/Reuters) [#item_full_content]Read More