More than 3.46 million people donated over $200 to candidates during the 2024 election cycle. Billionaires and their families represented only about 0.0087 percent of those donors. Despite that tiny ...

The Pentagon spent more money in September—the end of the 2025 fiscal year—than it had in any other year since 2008. But a good chunk of the budget wasn’t used for anything that could be considered a ...

Albany’s state budget battle is now in full swing — and competing visions over how to address voters’ pocketbook concerns is at the heart of the fight.

Donations from 300 billionaires and their immediate family members to federal elections in 2024 totaled $3 billion, either directly or through political action committees. Those billionaire families ...

The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.

Opponents of a proposed 5% billionaire tax are flooding mailboxes with a rival ballot measure designed to block it. The effort is funded by Silicon Valley billionaires.

When the Los Angeles chapter of 50501, one of the loosely organized groups behind the No Kings marches against President Trump over the past year, heard about a proposed initiative to tax Californian ...

The ongoing Israeli-American war on Iran, for all its complexity and global effects, boils down to a single question: Who can take the pain the longest? A surge in oil prices points to what may ...

President Trump's family has profited from his time in office. But the problem of money in politics bigger than him.

Over the past two election cycles, two billionaires have provided more than $9 million to fund the California Charter Schools ...

Defense Department officials told Congress that the estimate excludes many costs tied to the military buildup. Airstrikes were shaking Beirut and Tehran, and the price of oil surged past $100 a barrel ...

In Discord servers and Instagram DMs, content creators are organizing, turning followings in the millions into millions of dollars in political giving.