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The United States Army’s finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced. The Defense Department’s Inspector General, in a June report, said the Army made $2.8 trillion in wrongful adjustments to accounting entries in one quarter alone in…
On Wednesday night, Bernie Sanders debuted his post-primary plans for stoking the earnest embers of his movement. They start with a new nonprofit called Our Revolution, which has endorsed many baby Bernie candidates across the country and hopes to make sure the platform he fought for remains at the heart of the Democratic Party after…
One reason we might care about women in government is if we think they will govern differently — if we think different laws will get passed or certain topics discussed at greater length. There is research that shows this to be true: One paper from Swers at Georgetown found that female legislators consistently co-sponsor more…
But for all its protests, anti-rhetoric is just another form of rhetoric and, whether Mr. Trump is conscious of it or not, it has its own rhetorical markers. Short sentences (“We have to build a wall, folks!”) that pummel the listener in a series of sharp jabs. This is the traditional style of the general…
A bike lane, where — if you’re lucky — a car won’t try to hit you. Probably. (Matt McClain for The Washington Post) About 100 years ago, the auto industry pulled off a neat trick: It stole the public roadways from us. See, in the early days of the motor vehicle, there used to be…
Photo Anythony Weiner at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Huma Abedin, the wife of the former Representative Anthony D. Weiner, announced on Monday that the couple were separating in the wake of a report that Mr. Weiner had been involved in another sexting scandal. Mr. Weiner,…
Buzzfeed’s Chris Hamby is out today with the first installment of a promised four-part investigative report into the system of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Like all such reports, it needs a spectacular headline and summary to draw clicks, and this one’s a doozy: The Court That Rules the World A parallel legal universe, open only…
Anthony Weiner’s off of Twitter — about five years too late. The shamed politician’s Twitter account was no longer active Monday. The social media departure comes amid a new report alleging that Weiner sexted with a woman in 2015 while lying in bed near his young son. The former U.S. Representative gained notoriety in 2011…
cxenseparse_start Anthony Weiner, the Congressman who resigned from office after pursuing women on Twitter and sending lewd photographs of himself, is in the spotlight again for all the wrong reasons. USA TODAY Anthony Weiner, the Congressman who resigned from office after pursuing women on Twitter and sending lewd photographs of himself, is in the spotlight again…
In 1966, as the investigative journalist Wayne Barrett detailed in “Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth,” a New York legislative committee accused Fred Trump of using state money earmarked for middle-income housing to build a shopping center instead. One lawmaker called Mr. Trump “greedy and grasping.” By this point, the Trump organization’s business practices were…