POLITICS

Democratic Prosecutors Subpoena Oil Industry for Decades of Private Communications With Industry and Conservative Groups: Dark Money Fuels New War on Oil

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Democratic prosecutors in Hawaii filed an unexpected subpoena over the summer against the American Petroleum Institute (API), the nation’s largest oil industry trade group, demanding a trove of climate change-related documents and correspondence with 225 entities, including media outlets, academic institutions, conservative advocacy groups, business trade groups, and public relations firms, the Washington Free Beacon

‘UK Democracy Has an Upper Hand’: Abdul El-Sayed Praised British Government as Superior to United States

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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed praised the British democratic system as superior to America’s in a 2010 op-ed, arguing that the British system is better because it allows ethnic minority groups to concentrate more electoral power. El-Sayed wrote the opinion piece for the Guardian headlined, “UK democracy has upper hand on US,” about his

Brazil presidential election heads to runoff after no majority vote

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Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of President Trump, and Brazil’s veteran President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off in a runoff on Oct. 25 for the top job of Latin America’s powerhouse economy. The country’s electoral court in Brasilia said neither the 80-year-old incumbent, seeking his fourth non-consecutive term, nor the 45-year-old son

Sen. Tillis worries about the “outsized influence” of the executive branch

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As Sen. Thom Tillis exits the Senate, he’s blasting many of the advisers President Trump has surrounded himself with as “sycophants, and calling on his colleagues to stand up to executive power like the co-equal branch of government they are.” The 66-year-old senior senator from North Carolina unloads on what he calls the “WTF moments”