Amid the furor over health care, a bill to roll back many of the biggest financial reforms in recent memory cleared its House committee Thursday, with plenty of financial support from Wall Street giants.
Cory Doctorow suggests in his new novel that computer technologies can be used as a tool of liberation rather, not for control by the state and corporations
Despite Donald Trump's executive order, even when the federal government favors U.S. companies in the procurement process, those firms export the jobs to foreign workers.
The “sharing economy” doesn't exactly share the wealth. Companies like Uber, Lyft and Airbnb make millions of dollars and pay lobbyists to help keep their tax bills low. States, cities — and workers — are coming up short.
Financial industry groups are pressing for a bill to block states' savings programs for millions of workers, worried that the plans might undercut their business.
California lawmakers are weighing a single-payer insurance proposal. Sen. Feinstein dismissed the idea — and accepted big money from the health-care lobby.
The tax plan addressed none of the difficulties facing ordinary Americans. He could have proposed to raise incomes of people who work for low or modest wages
A new study quantified the effect of cash on Capitol Hill. “It is sort of grimly humorous or might make you want to throw up, depending on how you look at it,” said the research team leader.
Corporations whose CEOs and chairs meet with the president enjoy higher share price values, greater relief from regulation and more government contracts, a new study found.
Had the event spurred radical transformation of the services, we would arguably be on a path toward a true people’s police.
While the state is investigating a deadly explosion at a home that was just a few hundred feet from an aging oil well, Democratic lawmakers struggle to advance any bill opposed by the oil and gas industry.
Trump plans to cut the corporate tax rate to 15 percent from 35, but a substantial portion of profitable Fortune 500 companies don't pay much to begin with, according to a new report.
Rural, lower-educated, disaffected and — young? Marine Le Pen, the far-right Front National party candidate who will go head to head with center-right opponent Emmanuel Macron on May 7, has enjoyed substantial youth voter support.
From their views of government power to their relationships with Jews and Israel, the two politicians, often thrown into the same far-right, populist bucket, are more different than you might think.
Donald Trump proposed a mechanism that would allow some of the richest Americans to pay a newly-lowered corporate tax rate of just 15 percent.
Makan Delrahim brought his lobbying firm $370,000 while advocating for what could become America's largest health insurance company.
Lawmakers considering the health care legislation have hauled in cash from the industries fighting the measure.
Half of the suits were filed in just four districts — New Jersey, California's Los Angeles district and New York's Brooklyn and Manhattan districts.
A GOP proposal would make it harder for ordinary investors to hold companies accountable for corporate practices that affect climate change, pay equity, government lobbying and other issues.
Looking for support for deregulation, Republican lawmakers cite the former Fed chair — whose deregulation policies are widely blamed for the 2008 financial crisis.
It’s ‘flat wrong’ to allow Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman to influence U.S. economic policy in ways that boost his own firm, say Democratic lawmakers.
Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, untethered by ethics law, oversees Trump’s economic policies in ways that are already helping his Wall Street firm.
Rep. Tom Marino, who wrote legislation to protect opioid distributors, is expected to be named as the Trump administration's "drug czar."
A study shows that most publicly traded corporations do not disclose how much they are spending to influence legislators.
Jay Clayton’s law firm has encouraged corporate clients to better disclose the environmental risks they face.
Both investors and environmental activists fear the new administration will quash an SEC rule that pushes companies to address the impact of climate change.
Trump has reportedly asked Gary Cohn, Goldman Sachs president and COO, to lead his National Economic Council. As Trump's cabinet fills with Goldman-related people, the bank's shares are soaring.
Activists wanted Apple to outline its plan to eliminate carbon emissions. Executives said the issue was too complex for shareholders to understand — and the SEC agreed.
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel wants Donald Trump to make Jim O'Neill, who has financial ties to the healthcare industry, the new head of the FDA.
The president-elect’s choice for Defense Secretary, James Mattis, helped lead General Dynamics, a major defense contractor that he'll oversee for the Trump administration.