Two Men Denied Gun Permits Want the Supreme Court to Overturn Century-Old State Law

Advocates Urge Ocasio-Cortez and Other Progressives to Support Single-Payer Healthcare

Newtown Creek Exemplifies Our Government’s Agonizingly Slow Response to Environmental Cleanup

Texas Special Election Signals Americans Prefer Democracy over Trumpism

Ohio Senate Candidate J.D. Vance Says Politicians Who Don’t Have Children Shouldn’t Hold Office Unless we are pursuing politics for a living, we generally try to avoid spending actual time outside of elections thinking about individual candidates. That is, we ignore them unless they do and say things that are just so nuts that we

And Most Republicans Still Can’t Handle the Truth The formal Jan. 6 investigation by Congress kicked off Tuesday and was, of course, made almost secondary by fighting over who’s doing the investigating. The first hearing of the new, select, 13-member House committee heard from four police officers who made clear that: The Jan. 6 attacks

They Don’t Have Any Ideas, But At Least They’re Not Denying It Altogether

Suddenly, the Radical Right Is Pushing Vaccinations Among Infected Red-State Voters

Biden-Appointed Chairman Steers Ruling that Unions Have the Right to Use the Giant Inflatable Rodent in Labor Protests

Senate Weighs Better Care for the Homebound, Better Pay for Their Caregivers

And a Shocked, Shocked McCarthy Yanks Back Another Three Representatives

How Big Pharma Is Using Public Money to Make Billions Fighting the Virus … and Dragging Their Feet as they Do It

A Trump-Appointed Judge Clears the Way for Global Online Trafficking of Unregistered Weapons

Conservative Majority Rewrites the Fifth Amendment to Bar Union Organizers from Farms

He Promised ‘The Best People,’ But Admits He Picked ‘Losers’

Community Theaters, Opera Companies Hit Hard in the Pandemic Still Struggle; Two-Thirds of Grant Requests Not Paid

 Ticker Tape and Empty Accolades Are Meant to Keep Frontline Covid Workers in Check New York City threw essential workers a ticker-tape parade along the canyon of heroes last week. And somehow, Gotham’s gilded oligarchs were spared the unsavory sight of marchers in matching “I Saved Your Asses From COVID-19 And All I Got Was

A Comparison of Covid Deaths in Two Republican-Run States with Wildly Different Approaches to the Virus

The Biden Administration Defends Some of Trump Administration Pesticide Decisions

First Indication that Weisselberg Indictment Affects Trump Organization Operations

‘We Can Make Voting Rights About Money’

Giffords Gun-Control Group Says Board Stalled on Charges NRA Funneled Illegal Millions to Hawley, Cotton and Others

U.S. Troops Leave Behind Weapons and Other War Materiel as They Quickly Get Out of  Afghanistan

Trump Tries Raising Money in His Fight to Force Social Media Companies to Let Him Spew His Bile America’s panhandler in chief, Donald Trump, just proved beyond all doubt that he has no idea what is in the Constitution he took an oath to defend. Trump today sent me and millions of others a text

If the Real Story of the Alamo Doesn’t Match What They Learned as Children, They Don’t Want You to Hear It

U.S. Hands Over the Giant Bagram Airbase as the 20-Year War Winds Down

Responding to the New York Indictments, Trump Declares He Should Be Allowed to Break Whatever Law He Wants

The 6-3 Decision Upholding Arizona’s Restrictive Voting Law Guts Everyone’s Rights

Kristi Noem One-Ups Tucker Carlson and Kevin McCarthy with an Order to Send the National Guard to the Southern Border

Birthrates Are Up in Africa but Falling in Europe, the U.S., India and Mexico; Down in 183 Countries Around the World

Whether Facing a Collapsed Florida Condo or the Texas-Mexico Border, Politicians Too Often Just Go Through the Motions of Governing

DCReport has uncovered a secret IRS tax favor for the super-rich—authorized when Donald Trump was president—that will take effect on Thursday, July 1. President Joe Biden can stop it with one phone call. Will he? The Biden White House was unaware of this Trump tax favor—disguised as a crackdown on wealthy tax cheaters—when DCReport asked

Biden Tosses Republicans a Meager ‘Bipartisan’ Infrastructure Bone as He and Democrats Prepare to Go Alone on a Much Bigger Plan

New Data Show a 99% Drop in Post-Audit Collections; Commissioner Estimates $1 Trillion in Unpaid Taxes 

Unregistered, Untraceable Kit Guns Flood the Market; 24,000 Seized

Whether Both Parties Agree Is Irrelevant; What’s Important Is Actually Governing

The GOP Doesn’t Need, or Want, Evidence to Play Its Blame Game

As Schumer Gets Ready to Test the Democrats, McConnell Stands Firm in Opposition We get another peek on Tuesday at just what an upsidedown world the U.S. Senate represents with a test vote on voter rights legislation that is being washed twice, rinsed and hung out on a bipartisan clothesline just in time for Republicans

Let’s Be Blunt—the Senate’s Republican Leader Just Simply Opposes American Democracy

Three Times the Supreme Court Has Upheld the Healthcare Program. It’s Time for the GOP to Get On Board.

JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America Among Group Penalized for Bad Practices

The Pandemic Isn’t Over, but the New Administration Is Acting Like It Is On Donald Trump’s watch workers were callously denied enforceable workplace safety measures during the Covid pandemic. Now frontline workers charge President Joe Biden is failing to protect American workers toiling during the continuing pandemic. “They have certainly broken a promise,” Sonia Singh,

Eric Adams, a Former Cop, Leads the Pack in the Contest to Take the New York Mayor’s Office New York City’s mayoral election is a one of a kind, one that draws more than its share of identifying Democrats both as candidates and voters. Candidates want to run a city that has held what the

The Department of Justice Finds Silicon Valley an Easy Path to Your Personal Information Among the many troubling issues arising from disclosure of the politically driven leak investigations in Washington is the rising number of demands for personal information from those big technology companies that track way too much about our lives. The specific complaints

The President and Vice President Make Separate Visits to Foreign Friends and Allies By contrast with Donald Trump and Mike Pence, the first foreign forays for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have to go into the books as positive, ally-friendly efforts, complete with a commitment to humanitarian effort and a sense of reengaging us with

Dear Readers: Don’t run away! Yes, this is still DCReport. We’re just a bit different today. We’ve updated the look and feel of the place, making it, we hope, more reader-friendly and easier to use. The redesign of the website was overseen by our long-time senior adviser, Adam Leipzig, and our equally long-time social media

A New Leak of IRS Data Blows Apart Any Notion that the Super-Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes

It’s Just Another Ploy to Bolster Donald Trump’s Ego

These Are the Obscure Companies Threatening the Planet

New IRS Data Show the Wealthy Grew Even Richer in the Trump Years While the Rest of Us Fell Back

Just Six Senators Join Democrats Supporting Independent Commission to Investigate Jan. 6 Attack on Congress

The Pandemic, Use of Excessive Force and Lack of Mental Health Care Made Life Unbearable in Last Year of Trump Admninistration

Current Plans Call for a New Fleet of Gas-Powered Vehicles—But Why Not All-Electric?

Why in the World Is Merrick Garland Defending William Barr?

Rule Lets Non-Bank Lenders Charge Triple-Digit Interest on Loans

Boston’s State Street Bank Defrauded Its Customers for 17 Years—and That’s Just One of Its Crimes

All Nine Justices Say FTC Can’t Take Rogue Companies to Court Without Long, Cumbersome Internal Review First

But It’s Unknown What Biden Is Doing to Secure the 2022 and 2024 Elections from Russian Interference

Scary Headlines Aside, We’re Seeing Pent-Up Demand After 15 Months of Covid Lockdowns

Texas Judge Denies NRA Bankruptcy; Clears Way for New York to Proceed Breaking Up the Wounded Firearms Lobby

Congress and the White House Aren’t Treating the Colonial Pipeline Security Breach Seriously Enough

It’s Foolhardy to Indulge Idiots Who Flunked Arithmetic and Science

Amazon Ignored Labor Board Ruling and Installed USPS Ballot Dropbox at the Warehouse

The New Census Figures Show How the Fixed Number of Legislators Is Bad for Democracy and the Republic

In Which Our Columnist Reveals His Inner Wonk

The Daughter of DCReport’s Sarah Okeson, Shot and Killed by Random Gunfire in Kansas City

Watchdog Panel Was Neutered in Trump Era; Biden Can Pick Two New Commissioners

It’s Not Just Joe Manchin Who Can Make or Break the Democrats’ $2 Trillion-Plus Proposal

CPFB Reverses Trump-Era Hands-Off Regulation, Ramps Up Abuse Prevention

Jury Convicts on Murder, Manslaughter Charges, Bail Revoked, Sentencing to Come

Beat the Billionaires Who Want to Ruin America’s Most Popular Government Program

Call It ‘The Infrastructure of Workplace Protection’—Beefing Up OSHA and Other Agencies Charged with Protecting Workers

Troubled Agency Saw ‘Brain Drain’ Over the Trump Years

Both Want to End the 20-Year War that Killed 2,300 Americans

Biden Administration Plans Legislation to Combat Police Killings 

Financial Loses Bolster Dominion Damage Claims Against Fox News, Giuliani and Others 

Governor Forces People into Private Enrollment System; Work Requirement for Medicaid

The Georgia Governor Throws a Tantrum after Baseball Calls a Foul on Voting Restrictions

Buried Report Catalogues Transportation Department Support of Shipping Business; Barr Refused to Prosecute

$2 Trillion Over Eight Years Is a Drop in the Bucket

Restrictions Falling Away as States Re-Open; Biden Urged to Stop Companies Turning Off Service

Start by Beefing-Up an Important Federal Crime-FightingDepartment that You’ve Never Heard Of

Evanston, Ill., Establishes a Fund for Black Citizens, Other Cities Consider Similar Moves

$6 Billion Contract Comes Under Congressional Scrutiny as Losing Bidder Weighs Legal Options

Bandy Lee Sues Yale, Says University Fired Her Over Efforts to Expose Donald Trump’s Mental Illness

We Should Press Companies to Get Behind the ‘For the People Act’ and the Efforts to Abolish the Senate Filibuster

A Panel Long Noted for Its Bi-Partisan Oversight of Intelligence Operations Devolved into Warring Camps Over the Trump-Kremlin Conspiracy

He Makes an Empty Effort to Boot Eric Swalwell from the Intelligence Committee Over—Get This—a Claim of Undue Foreign Influence 

New Administration Reconsidering Trump Rule Allowing Deadly LNG Rail Shipments

It’s Not Enough that They Won’t Wear Masks, Now 30 Million Won’t Get Shots and Threaten the Rest of Us

Trump-Era EPA Sat on Proposed Designation of PFAS as ‘Hazardous Substances’

Right on Cue, Conservatives Cry Wolf  Over Deficit Spending … Just Like the Last Time and the Time Before That

Labor Groups Angry that Biden and Democrats Didn’t Push for the New Base Pay in the $1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Legislation

New Study Finds Top Executives Pocketed a Huge Chunk of the Trump-Radical Republican Tax Cuts

Even as They Say the Covid Relief Bill Is Too Costly, the GOP Wants to Spend Billions on Nuclear Weapons

Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican Politicians Are Letting Power Companies Rob the State’s Citizens

Despite Federal Guarantee, Some Retirees Get Only 30% of  the Pensions They Earned; Covid Relief Bill Would Fix That

Without a Pay Increase, Workers Will Keep Falling Further and Further Behind

How an Obama-Era Effort to Help Small Businesses and Individual Investors Became a Tool for Big Businesses and Their Top-Tier Financial Backers

Hospital Staff Are Five Times More Likely to Face Harm at Work

Failed Effort Would Have Removed Job Protections for 84,000 High-Ranking Civil Servants, Make Their Employment Subject to Presidential Whims

Of the 165,000 Vehicles on Order, Only 10% Will Be Electric. Then, There’s the Issue of Building Them with Foreign-Made Parts.

Millions Looted to Build Moscow Tower, Buy U.S. Real Estate. At the Center of the Scheme: Trump Associate Felix Sater.

Trump Administration Turned a Blind Eye to the Mass Killing of the Giant Sea Creatures

Workers at Walmart, Amazon and Other Mega-Companies Shouldn’t Have to Rely on Medicaid and Food Stamps

Expect Most Media to Report Just the Good Numbers, Not the Real Story

When Every Senate Votes Counts, the West Virginia Democrat May as Well Be a Republican

Oregon’s Pristine Crater Lake Is Just One of the Natural Wonders the Biden Administration Now Must Save from Trump’s EPA

Lawsuit Cites Global Candy Companies; Seeks Freedom, Compensation for Children Forced into Dangerous Work on Cocoa Farms Next time you take a bite of a chocolate bar, consider the small hands that farmed the cocoa beans. Industrial food heavyweights like Nestlé USA, Hershey and MARS Inc., rely on cocoa grown in Côte D’Ivoire, the Ivory

Donald Trump Remains a Threat; the Half-Million Dead May Be the Lucky Ones

How Many More Will Die Before Everyone Does Their Part to Beat the Virus?

How Will Our Children Know They Face a Crushing Debt Burden?

But His Program Became Increasingly Divorced from Reality, Like Much of Right-Wing Media

The Deep Freeze Is the Disastrous Result of Decades of Republican Government in the State

The Texas Freeze and the COVID-19 Pandemic Have a Lot in Common

Internal Intelligence Community Report Names Grenell and Ratcliffe for ‘Politicalization’ of Analysts’ Findings

Seven Honorable Republicans Join 48 Democrats, Two Independents to Support the Republic, Rule of Law

Not That It Matters, of Course, Because The Attorneys Are Sure Enough Radical Republican Senators Will Vote for Insurrection

While There Probably Aren’t Enough Republican Senators with the Courage to Convict, the Story the Managers Told of Trump’s Treachery Will Live in History

He Could Run Again and Win; He Actually Lost in 2020 by a Lot Fewer Votes Than You Think

The Violence of the Capitol Insurrectionists Arises From His Mental Illness; Unless He is Held Accountable, We Will See Duplicates of Him

Last-Minute Approval of a Controversial Transmission Line Through Maine Wilderness

No Trump and No Regrets

Tom Vilsack, Who Ran USDA in Obama Years, Blamed for Short Changing Minority Borrowers

As New Forms of the Virus Spread, Employees Are Feeling Less Safe

Senate Votes 56-44 to Proceed with the Second Trial of Donald Trump

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Representative Without a Job, Can Now Spend Her Time Talking About How She’s Been Mistreated

As the Senate Prepares to Try Him Again, the Mental Health Pandemic He Unleashed Rages On

Congress Writes Lax Laws, Making It Even Better to Be Really, Really Wealthy

When Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Chose Not to Rein-In Majorie Taylor Greene, He Chose a New Path for His Dying Political Party

And the Miserly Proposal of Senate Republicans Shows Again That They Care Only About White Americans

Trump Gutted Rights of Federal Workforce, Left Employees Unprotected from Pandemic

Michael Regan, Biden’s Pick to Head Agency, Goes to the Senate This Week

Pro-Democracy Demonstrations in Russia While Insurrectionist Authoritarians Take to the Streets of the U.S.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is a Menace and a Traitor

Biden’s Inherited Disaster—Not Enough Doses, Not Enough Equipment, No Distribution Network

The Coronavirus Vaccine Fail and International Elites

OSHA’s Hands Tied; Congress and Trump Inaction Leave Workers Vulnerable

New York State Considers Adopting a Controversial Tough-Screen Vote-Counting Machine  

Trump’s Legacy: From QAnon Lunatics to Fanatical Evangelicals, the Grand Old Party Is Out of Its Mind

It’s Not News That the 1% Get Off Easy, But It’s Still an Outrage. And Here’s How to Make Congress Fix It.

All that Stands between What People Want and What Congress Delivers Is an Absurd Rule that Assures Minority Rule

The Democrat Is the New Majority Leader. So Why Is Mitch McConnell Still Running the Place?

Regulatory Renewal: After Four Years Covering for Big Business, Agencies Get Back to Protecting People

20% of the Arrested Capitol Insurrectionists Have Military Backgrounds; Top Brass Need to Teach Enlistees What They Are Defending

Now That He’s Gone: The State of Public Mental Health He Leaves Behind

What a Contrast: Biden Calls for Unity, Truth … No ‘American Carnage’

The Loser President Failed to Re-Ignite the Manufacturing Sector. And No, the Corporate Tax Cut Didn’t Work Either. 

Consider Canada’s Simple, No Drama National Elections vs. the Complicated Hodge-Podge in the U.S.

Agency Extends Time for Utilities, Cities to Replace Lead Water Pipes

Trump’s Army Must Be Defeated Without Destroying Our Nation’s Soul

Trump and His Followers Broke the Law, and That’s What the Senate Is Supposed to Try

The Loser-in-Chief Gets Himself Re-Impeached, Makes the History Books … and a Few Republicans Join in the Vote

A Last-Minute Transfer of Arizona’s Oak Flat, Protected from Miners Since the Eisenhower Administration

Mental Health Experts Say It’s Time for an ‘Involuntary Psychiatric Hold’

A Brief Q-and-A: What’s the House Doing, How Will the Senate Deal With It and What Will Happen to Trump?

State Election Officials Have Known for Years that Voting Equipment Used in Many Counties Is Too Easy to Hack

Make No Mistake: The Terrorists Were There to Kill Pence, Pelosi, Someone

Right Away, They Can Start Rolling Back Some of the Dangerous Deregulation Moves Agencies Made in the Last Six Months

Corporate Enablers Also Must Be Held Accountable for Their Long Support of Trump

Just Two Small Drillers and the State of Alaska Bid for Rights in Pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

‘Only the Beginning of the Fight,’ Defiant Mob Leader Declares

He Shouldn’t Be in the White House One More Day

Black and Brown Workers Say They Toil in Dangerous Workplaces, Made Worse by COVID

Even as Trump’s Violent Mob Laid Siege to Our Capitol, He Repeated the Big Lie that the Election was Stolen

She Doesn’t Need a Majority to Hold McConnell Down and Run the Senate Herself

Mental Health Experts Say the Hour-Long Exchange Shows Trump is ‘Irrational, Unstable and Dangerous’

And Congress Prepares for a Madhouse of Crazy Radical Republicans Challenging the Election Results

There Are 12 Coup-Plotting Radical Republican Senators and 140 Representatives (So Far) Trying to Destroy Our Government

Just Three Weeks Ago, We Were Told the New COVID Vaccines Were on Their Way. We’re Still Waiting.

Raising Some Questions about the Voting Machine Company Behind So Many Surprise Wins This Year

What to Watch for When the House and Senate Meet to Review the Electoral College Votes

He Meets Every Criterion for Dangerousness; It Goes Back to His Adolescence

Trump’s Pardons Show He’s Just a Mob Boss, and His Presidency Is a Criminal Enterprise

Pardons for Bad Guys; Threatening to Deny COVID-19 Relief for Everyone Else

But Senators and Representatives Will Be Patting Themselves on Their Backs Anyway

In the Fine Print of the Newest COVID Relief Bill: White House Insists on Reviving the Infamous ‘Three-Martini Lunch’

As the End of the Reign Draws Near, Republican World Gets Crazier and Crazier

An Agency Designed to Guard Against Unscrupulous Bankers Is Now Lending Them a Hand

How Does an 18% Approval Rating Result in a 58% Win?

Why Donald Trump’s Supporters Stay with Him No Matter What

In Which Our Columnist Considers the Political Circus That Will Decide the Fate of the U.S. Senate

It’s Unclear Just How Effective the Company’s COVID Inoculation Will Be

Horning in on Biden’s Health Team Debut, the Soon-to-be-Former White House Occupant Claims Credit for the Covid Vaccines

Trump’s EPA Says Toxic Ash Ponds Can Stay Open into 2028

There’s Much at Barr’s Justice Department That Needs Undoing, But Some Things Should Be Left Alone 

Healing Cannot—and Should Not—Occur Without Prosecution

With Just Weeks Left in His Reign, the Attorney General Opts for Prisoner Executions over Corporate Prosecutions

Protections from Chemical Plants Weakened; Houston Area Could See a Reprise of  World’s Worst Industrial Accident

It’s Business as Usual for the McConnell Boys; No Covid Relief, but Gotta Save Those Confederate Military Bases

Our Bandy X. Lee Talks with Noted Fascism Expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Trump’s EPA Refused to Outlaw Methylene Chloride, Which Has Been Banned in Europe for a Decade

What Should Banks, Fintechs Be Allowed to Do With All that They Know About You?

Decision Blocks Effort to Keep States from Deducting Insurance, Union Dues from Home Healthcare Workers

His First Cabinet Picks Look Solid and Competent. How’s That for a Change of Pace?

Murder Most Foul, by Bob Dylan

Experts Agree: Trump Is a Clear and Present Danger to the Republic … and He’s Still President

Why You Should Be a Bit Skeptical About the COVID Vaccine Announcements

He Should Just Disappear—Go Golfing and Leave Our Government Alone

Scheme Targets Home Healthcare Workers; Would End Up Moving Elderly, Disabled to Nursing Homes—COVID Hotspots

Workplace Safety Watchdog Is Almost Nowhere to Be Seen as COVID-19 Cases Skyrocket

And What President-Elect Biden Can Do to Help Them

Hold Up in the White House, Trump Rages; Finally, He Feels Shame 

Among Those on Transition Teams, Only a Fraction Come from Large Companies

He’s Enjoying a Bit of Personal Pique as He Stalls the Biden Camp’s Efforts to Get the Transition Going

Georgia Has a Scheme to Force People Off the Popular HealthCare.gov Online Sign-Up Portal and On Private Insurer Sites

Not Only Does He Deny the Election Results, He’s Also Blocking Biden from Preparing to Take Over Our Government

Because Gender Isn’t the Most Important Reason People Support Candidates

Three Big Firings in the Wake or the Election Loss; Expect More Vandalism Before He’s Gone

Even as Biden-Harris Supporters Celebrate, We Should Be Prepared for Two More Months of Trump’s Nastiness

Harris First Woman VP / Democratic Duo Takes Pennsylvania and Nevada; Georgia, North Carolina, Alaska Still Counting / Trump Reported Golfing

He Attacks Election Results, but His Arguments Signify Nothing

Trump and His Cronies Tried to Discredit Mail-In Ballots; When That Didn’t Work, They Just Didn’t Deliver Them

Leaders Say They Will ‘Fight Tooth and Nail’ if Trump Tries to Reverse Election Results

This Muddled Conclusion Uncovers Fundamental Flaws in How We Select a President

But Saying He Won Doesn’t Change the Vote Count … or End It

McConnell, Trump and Their Cronies Are Going to Make Life Hell for Biden and Everyone Else

How Trump’s Mental Illness Infected 48% of the Electorate

Trump and Biden Duke It Out Over a Hopelessly Divided as a Nation

Otherwise, It’s Weeks of Legal Craziness or, Worse, Four More Years of Trump’s Chaos

And If You Do Vote, He Doesn’t Want Your Ballot Counted

The Pandemic Overrides Everything, says Terry H. Schwadron, the Economy Won’t Come Back Until the Virus is Under Control

Trump—Jeffrey Epstein’s Creepy, Leering Wingman—Lets Other Child Rapists Off the Hook

Part 1: It Helps If You’re the President—Who Can Block IRS Enforcement of Tax Laws

Supporter Point to the Small Promises He Has Kept (Hello, Jerusalem Embassy), but He’s Fallen Flat on the Deals that Matter

States Challenge Law that Discourages Adoptions by Whites; Case Could Upend Affirmative Action Laws

Move Stymies Cargill Plan to Build Housing in Area Expected to Flood as Sea Level Rises

Red State Governors Still Flunk Coronavirus Testing

Warning Signs Are Flashing: Trump May Be Preparing to Invade Venezuela

The Whitlock Case Is About Much More than One Unjustly Fired Government Employee

It Seems So Long Ago When the House of Representatives Gave Us All a Chance to Be Rid of the Madman in the White House 

Part Two: How White Trump Appointees Targeted a Top Civilian in the Pentagon, Undercut Him, Shunted Him Off to a Do-Nothing Job and Then Fired Him 

The Final Debate Was a Lot Calmer; Trump Didn’t Melt Down, and Biden Didn’t Fall Flat

Part One: A White Trump Appointee Was Determined to Take Down Warren Whitlock, Who Was in Charge of the Army’s Diversity Efforts

Supreme Court Candidate Chaired a Parish Board for Church Citing ‘Homosexual Behavior’ as an Offense Against the 10 Commandments

Lara Trump Defends the Boorish and Harmful Behavior of Her Cruel, Self-Concerned Father-in-Law

Framing Questions That Produce Revealing Answers Isn’t All That Hard  A Primer for U.S. Senators   By David Cay Johnston, DCReport Editor-in-Chief After three days of Kabuki theater, a television mini-series produced by the Senate Judiciary Committee, did you learn anything that Judge Amy Coney Barrett didn’t want you to know? Really, it’s not hard to frame

Trump Coloring Book, Other Merch on Sale at Deep Discounts By David Cay Johnston, DCReport Editor-in-Chief Donald Trump’s campaign is so desperate to raise cash that it’s begun offering deep discounts on the merch it sells. The campaign’s Columbus Day “flash sale” comes amid signs that the campaign could go broke before balloting ends Nov. 3. “For

A Pandemic Aid Calendar Would Have Saved GOP A Lot of Grief     Donald Trump was against a new coronavirus aid package before he was for it. And now, with time running out before the elections, we’re actually unsure of what the White House wants – other than a second term. It would seem that the

  It’s Definitely Not Urban Blacks Who Benefit Most From Federal Program That Creates Very Few Jobs    As part of every campaign speech – and in that single, awful debate – Donald Trump refers to helping black voters. Specifically, he cites lower unemployment numbers than in the years before his presidency and the introduction

Agency Gives Utilities a Break, Reclassifies ‘Cooling Ponds’ as ‘Waste Treatment Systems’

A Sharp Slowdown in Personal Spending Revealed; Mike Pence Tells a Whopper During Debate

But That’s Not Saying Much

Agency Reverses Tribal Sovereignty Recognized in Recent Supreme Court Ruling

Trump Appointee Ignores the Virus; No Protections for Office Workers; 93% ‘No-Confidence’ Vote by Union

Forget Shooting Someone on Fifth Avenue, Now Trump Spews Death with Every Breath He Takes  

‘Don’t Be Afraid of COVID,’ Trump Says as 43,000 More  Get Sick Each Day

He’s Been Flouting Public-Health Instructions for Months and Urging His Followers to Disregard Them, Too

The Country Needs a Clean Referendum on His Presidency, Says David Cay Johnston

Labor Department Won’t Stop Corporate Abuses of ‘Essential’ Laborers; High COVID Rates, Wage Cuts, Squalid Housing

Congress Wrote a Lenient Tax Law for the Super-Rich and Then Barred the IRS from Enforcing It 

Forty Years Ago, Journalist Wayne Barrett Was Uncovering the Lies of the Queens Con Man While The New York Times Fell for His Scams

Biden Gave as Good as He Got, but He Sometimes Seemed Like a Prop in Trump’s Show 

On One Side There’s Biden’s Take on the Reality of the Pandemic and the Depression and on the Other Side, Well, There’s Trump

Trump, Kushner Have Financial Ties to Company that Wants ‘Bomb Trains’ to Carry Deadly Liquified Natural Gas

The Newspaper’s Damning Expose Lays Bare Decades of Deception, Fraud and Scheming—by Trump and Congress

A New Report Finds Many Companies Say One Thing and Do Another

Amy Coney Barrett Sees the Law as a Cruel, Harsh Master of the Individual

Here Are the Numbers; It Would Be Irresponsible Not To Speculate

Campaign Donors Oracle and Walmart Get a 20% Piece of the Action, But that’s About It

Unions? Who Needs Them? Group Paints a Labor Vision That’s Right Out of the 19th Century Robber Barons Era.

His Administration is Losing Case After Case, Reports Sarah Okeson, as States Challenge Sloppy Efforts to Rollback Federal Benefits and Protections

Once Again, He Basks in the Limelight, Gets to Play Supreme Court Kingmaker Instead of Pandemic Failure

Trump & Co. Keeps Hiring Companies with Histories of Ripping Off Our Government, Reports Phil Mattera

‘Sedition’ Arrests for BLM Protesters? Prosecute Seattle’s Mayor? Mask Mandates and Slavery? Is This Guy for Real?

The Super-Rich Pay, or Don’t Pay, Pretty Much Whatever They Wish; Congress Looks Over Your Shoulder, Not Your Boss’s

But Trump Does, and That’s Why He’s Pushing for a Vaccine—Any Vaccine—by Nov. 1

Surprise! His Presidency Has Been Very Good for the Richest Americans, Reports David Cay Johnston.

Homeland Security Whistleblower Says Intelligence Was Cooked to Play Down Russian Election Interference, White Supremacist Activity

New Books Make It Clear, Says Bandy X. Lee, Trump Threatens Every Man, Woman and Child on Earth

And Trump’s FDA Is OK with It, as the Agency Sets ‘Voluntary’ Limits on Arsenic in Rice-Based Baby Foods

It’s Really That Simple, says Terry H. Schwadron, Trump Is Incapable of Being a President

40,000 Corporations Receiving CARES Act Assistance Have a History of Misconduct

Ex-Fixer Cohen Says ‘Profoundly Immoral’ Presidential Poseur Labels Christianity ‘Bullshit’ and Is Consumed by a ‘Lust for Wealth’

He Calls It ‘Un-American’; Terry H. Schwadron Says Every Americans Needs to Know How Best to Relate to Every Other American

Radical Republicans Ramrodded that Law through Congress, and, You Guessed It, the Rich Made Out Like Bandits While the Rest of Us Got Bupkis By David Cay Johnston, DCReport Editor-in-Chief The first data showing how all Americans are faring under Donald Trump reveal the poor and working classes sinking slightly, the middle class treading water, the upper-middle

Unlined Ponds Leak Arsenic and Other Poisons; Rivers and Waterways Polluted; Unedible Fish in a Tranquil Kentucky Lake

Trump’s Payroll Tax Ploy Endangers Social Security, and It Will Have to Be Paid Back Next Year

Stunning Revelations About The Failure to Investigate Trump’s Loyalty to the Kremlin

Right-Wing Trump Supporters Brandish Guns to Intimidate Anti-Trump, BLM Protesters

The Republican Convention Was Four Nights of Delusion and Fantasy, Says Our Terry H. Schwadron

‘Well, Except for that COVID Pandemic Thing, But You Can’t Blame Us for That’

Most Cities Have Lots of Empty Space Where the Newly Evicted Could Store Their Belongings

As the Trump Convention Drones On, Says Terry H. Schwadron, Americans Are in the Streets Again Over Trigger-Happy Police

Now He Has Compromised the Food and Drug Administration

The Choice In November Comes Down to Freedom or Tyranny

Trump’s Very Bad Legal Day Started with DCReport’s Articles Last Summer

The Trump-Putin Election Scheming Is Laid Out in the Republican-Led Intelligence Committee’s 1,000-Page Report

Our Editor-in-Chief David Cay Johnston Calls It the Radical Republican Idiocracy versus Sound Science and Economics

Environmental Protection Doesn’t Apply to the Agency’s Workplaces During the Trump Pandemic, Reports Sarah Okeson

William Perry Pendley’s Opposition to Public Lands Is Much for Senate Republicans in Tight November Races, Says Sarah Okeson

Brazen Scheme to Rig the Election by Ruining Mail Delivery Hurts Millions—Including Trump’s Supporters

Erik Sherman Calls Out Trump’s Latest Bullshit: An Illegal Executive Order Puts States on the Hook and Does Nothing for Out-of-Work Americans

In Part 5 of Our ‘Inside the Mind’ Series, Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee Talks with Psychologist Mary L. Trump about ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Man’

New Trump-Era Report Says ‘No Problem’ with Pebble Mine Planned for Giant, Pristine Salmon Spawning Region, Reports Our Sarah Okeson

In Part 4 of Bandy X. Lee’s ‘Inside the Mind Donald J. Trump,’ A Leading Psychiatrist Takes a Detailed Look into Trump’s Narcissistic Pathologies 

Dirt Digger Phil Mattera Has a Name for Companies Double- and Triple Dipping: Pigs at the Trough

It’s Not Just His Move to Gut Social Security, Says David Cay Johnston. Trump’s Incompetent Handing of the Pandemic Is Forcing Older Workers into Permanent Hard Times

Opinion Editor Terry H. Schwadron Says Trump’s Dubious Move to Cut Social Security Taxes Won’t Revive the Virus-Infected Economy

He’s Sabotaging the Postal Service When a Real President Would Be Making It Work Better

Opinion Editor Terry H. Schwadron Wonders Aloud: Bash the Chinese? Help Out Microsoft? Create Yet Another Re-Election Distraction? All of the Above? 

In Part 3 of Our ‘Inside the Mind’ Series, a Psychiatrist Assesses the Donald Trump of ‘Too Much and Never Enough’

Our Terry Schwadron Says There’s Way Too Much Attention to Trump’s Tweets, Not Enough to What He’s Actually Doing

Mining Companies Want to Do Their Dirty Work Near the Boundary Waters Wilderness

Call It the Big Short 2.0—Merchants of Debt Are Playing Musical Chairs, and the Band Just Stopped

The Feds Lost the Battle of Portland; the Secret Police Left Town and Nothing Bad Happened

Blackmailing Millions of Suffering Americans Until Corporations Get Immunity from Coronavirus Litigation

Russia, China and Iran Move Ahead as America Reels from the Trump Pandemic and the Trump Depression

Trump Kills Safety Rules, Hotel, Casino Staffs Suffer the Consequences; Infections Have Run Rampant Since the City Re-Opened

The Art of the Steal: A Biotech Company Shows All Those Lazy Unemployed Workers How to Really Rip Off the Government

Bags of Letters Pile Up, Overtime Cut, Equipment Shutdowns—All to Undermine Mail-in Voting

Part 2 of a DCReport Series: A Feminist Perspective on Mary Trump’s Portrayal of the World’s Most Dangerous Man 

Part 1 of a DCReport Series: Inside the Mind of Donald J. Trump

And It’s Not Going Well; His Utter Incompetence Is Showing Through

With Few Buyers on Hand, Farmers Resort to Grotesque Methods: Smothering Thousands of Birds, Steaming Live Hogs to Death

But Then What Else Would You Expect in Donald Trump’s Dystopian America?

Without Rallies, It’s Harder to Pass His Contagious Mental Disease to His MAGAites

If He Loses the Election, He Could Use This New Private Army of Brownshirts to Overthrow Our Republic 

He’s Running Against a Mythical, Imaginary Opponent 

Despite Massive Government Cash Infusions, Healthcare Companies Belly Up to the Public Trough for More

The Education Secretary’s 2020-21 School Year of Magical Thinking 

Hey, Remember When Trump and Barr Set Up a Task Force to Bust COVID-19 Price Gougers? We Do.

Trump’s Narcissism and Antisocial Disorder Are Taking Over; He Is Unraveling in Plain View 

Environmental Groups Oppose William Perry Pendley’s Appointment and Programs

He Claims He ‘Aced’ a Cognitive Abilities Test. But What the Hell Does That Mean?

Cases Among Prisoners Are Growing at More than Double the Rate of  the General Population

Survey Finds Dozens of Companies Guilty of Wage Thefts Among Borrowers of Public Funds; More Names To Come

In an Era of Blatant, Court-Sanctioned Voter Suppression, Voting Machines May Be Democracy’s Weakest Link

The Supreme Court Hands Trump a Quick Political Victory While It Shields His Tax Returns Well into the Future

Union Leaders Say the ‘Neo-Confederate’ Chief  of the Veterans Department Supports White Supremacy and Racism

Lying, Cheating, Amoral to His Core; Still a Child Fearing a Wrathful Father

Groups Opposing Pipelines Have Been Cast into Legal Limbo as Corporations Proceed with Projects

His Malignant Narcissism Is a Problem for All of Us

He Sides with Aggrieved Whites over the Pleas for Justice for Blacks and Latinos

What Did the President Know and When Did He Know It?

More than 1,100 Hogs Slaughtered Every Hour as the Pandemic Cuts a Deadly Swath Through the Workforce 

Of Course, It’s Not Clear Who That Is Exactly … But It Means the Justice Department Won’t be Doing Anything Important

A Court Threw Out the Agency’s Approval of Deadly Dicamba Herbicide, But the Maker Is Pushing for Another Year of Use

The Pentagon Leaks an Explosive Story of Trump’s Dereliction of Duty, Widening the Rift Between the Military and the White House

 Behind-the-Scenes Move At EPA Water Board Shows How Trump Loyalists Are Loading the Government with Corporate Allies

Five Men of Color Have Been Found Hanging in Various Parts of the U.S.; Many Doubt Official Reports that They Were Suicides

A Bombshell Investigation Reveals Espionage in Top Republican Circles and Naive, Amateur U.S. Responses 

Giant California Utility PG&E Kills, but It’s a Crime Without Real Punishment

John Bolton’s Book Portrays an Ignorant, Disloyal President Selling Out the Country He’s Sworn to Defend

Hey, Congress, Think Big; Seize the Moment and Make a Grand Bargain

Despite the Virus, the Depression and the Protests, He Could Still Win the November Election

It Helped When a Florida Billionaire Hired a Lobbyist With Close Ties to Trump

Millions of Enslaved Children Work and Die Bringing Coffee, Chocolate and Other Goods to Your Home   Child Labor Day is June 12, designed to draw attention to the more than 200 million children forced to work. Many toil on cocoa plantations, sew soccer balls at home and make in sweatshops the expensive sports shoes

In Which Our Columnist Casts His Ballot at Home, Commits No Fraud and Lives to Tell His Story

Justice Department Pretty Much Ignores Financial Firms Preying on Low-Income Communities

Trump’s Administration Has Ripped Away Any Connection With Truth

There’s a Knee to the Neck for Protesters and Others Trump Dislikes, Not Even a Slap on the Wrist for Him and His Ilk

Retired and Active Officers Reassure an Anxious Public—Trump Has Gone Too Far

Barr’s Black-Shirted Private Army Stands Guard with No Badges, No Nameplates, No Insignias

So, of Course, Trump’s EPA Ignores Harvard Study and Its Own Scientists and Sticks with Lax Air Pollution Standards

Employers Are Killing High-Risk Supermarket and Warehouse Workers

Military Officers Don’t Have to Obey His Illegal Orders

Amid the Violence, Sickness and Economic Collapse, the Psychiatric Establishment Still Ignores the Mental Health Emergency in the Oval Office

Enough Already—From London to Los Angeles, People of All Races Are Fed Up

Just When He Has a Chance to, You Know, Actually Act Like a President, He Disappears

How the Trump Administration Is Using the Pandemic to Gut the Postal Service and Hand It Over to Corporate  Cronies

Overworked Postal Service Workers Face Disease and Job Losses; 3,800 Sick, 25,000 Quarantined

As the Pandemic Body Count Soars, Minneapolis Burns and Hong Kong Succumbs, Trump Targets Social Media and Protesters

Coronavirus Fallout: Millions of Americans Could Soon Be Experiencing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

The Duffer-in-Chief Makes His Priorities Clear, Choosing the Back Nine Over Pew and Pulpit

The Precedent Set When the Supreme Court Upheld Obamacare May Be the Public’s Best Defense

Companies Want Congress to Grant Them Blanket COVID Legal Immunity, and They Might Get It

The Numbers Are In—The Trump-Radical Republican Response Has Been Great for Corporations and the One-Percenters, Not So Good for You

We Can Prevent a ‘Darkest Winter’, Or We Can Remain Hostages to Trump’s Worsening Mental Condition

Now, He’s Targeting Our Government’s Inspectors General—the Internal Watchdogs Uncovering His Corruption

With Supermarket Prices Rising, Agriculture Department Backs Giant COVID-Ridden Meatpacking Firms Over Ranchers and Feedlot Operators

They Turned the Bailout Plan into a Brand-Building Marketing Tool and Threw Money at Their Biggest Corporate Customers 

Insufficient Safety Equipment Could Put Veterans in Danger

Whether Overwhelmed, Bored or Just Plain Lazy, He’s Just Done Fighting the Disease

Let’s Call What He’s Doing With His Purposeful Bungling of COVID-19 Response What It Is—Genocide

A Deadly Herbicide Ends Up in Lakes and Rivers, Severely Harming Wildlife

What the Corrupt ‘Injustice Department’s’ Move to Drop the Case Against Turncoat Russian Agent Michael Flynn Really Means

Over 30 years, partners — including the CEO — have run into trouble for fraud, misconduct or malpractice.

An Open Letter to the Unmasked Men and Women Marching on State Capitols

There’s No General Strike in the Works, But Workers Are Starting to Challenge the ‘Insane System’

It’s Not Just COVID-19; We’re Also Facing a Mental Health Crisis 

 Before It’s Too Late for You, Your Party or the Country

And He Cares Even Less About Immigrants Working in Meat-Processing Plants

Acting Administrator, a Former Industry Executive, Waives Required Rest Time for Drivers

Trump and Congress Aren’t Looking to the Future; They’re Trying to Catch-Up with the Past