Sara Jacobs, heiress to the Qualcomm fortune, is leading in the polls thanks in part to a super PAC funded entirely by her billionaire grandparents.
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Useless Wells Fargo Settlement Shows the Rule of Law Ended Long Ago
A bipartisan tradition of no prosecutions and weak fines against big banks continues.
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The Top Lawyer Bankrolling Democrats
Brad Karp, chairman of the BigLaw firm Paul, Weiss, appears as a bundler on numerous 2020 candidate lists.
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Richard Neal Is Number One in Corporate PAC Donations
Neal, who chairs the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, got money from PACs of several corporations that had negative effective tax rates in 2018.
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Q&A: ‘Amazon Empire’ Director on the World’s Richest Man and His Mega-Company
James Jacoby, one of the filmmakers behind a PBS Frontline documentary, discusses Amazon’s bid for economic transformation.
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The D.C. Media Blob and the Trade Group Speaking Circuit
Anchors, commentators, and contributors at the top broadcast and cable news organizations will be featured—and highly paid—speakers at major industry conferences this spring.
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The Census Count Relies on Private Philanthropy
And that could produce an uneven count depending on the private dollars available in various communities.
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From ‘We, the People’ to the Power of People Magazine
This year’s presidential campaigns demonstrate the steadily increasing integration of political figures into pop culture, and vice versa.
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Five Ways Donald Trump Has Not Drained the Swamp
It seems like forever ago when Donald Trump promised to ‘drain the swamp’ if elected president. Well, it turns out this was one of the biggest whoppers in modern American politics.
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D.C.’s Professional Left Flocks to Google Policy Conference
Scores of center-left think tanks, consumer, civil rights, and human rights groups attend a summit at Google headquarters, which critics term ‘soft capture.’
