OPINION

Corporate handout? Government interference in the market? As Wisconsin holds its first public hearing on the $3 billion Foxconn deal, both liberal and conservative analysts expressed objections.

Fossil fuel and pharmaceutical donations flooded into a super PAC that boosts state legislative elections. That could help the GOP counter the unpopularity of the Trump administration and keep control of state governments.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy opposed a bill to curb drug price fraud — while insurance and pharma money poured into his governors' association and his insurance commissioner maintained a close relationship with the industry.

The Democratic Governors Association received contributions from nearly two dozen pharmaceutical companies in the first half of 2017, including some that are being sued by states for their alleged role in the opioid epidemic.

A new Congressional Budget Office analysis shows that a bill introduced by Sanders and Senate Democrats allowing foreign drug imports would save the federal government $6 billion. But other Democrats aren't onboard.

Gov. Scott Walker’s deal gives Foxconn — which admitted dumping chemicals in a Chinese river — an exemption from statutes that protect Wisconsin wetlands.

Business advocacy organizations and Koch-affiliated political groups have been gearing up for tax reform — spending millions to influence it.

Wisconsin state representative Chris Taylor attended ALEC’s annual conference to find out what bills Corporate America is pushing — and she told IBT why the group wants a new constitutional convention.

New York Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio are giving the insurance giant millions in tax breaks to persuade the company to move its headquarters. Does this kind of deal benefit taxpayers?

“The Democratic party is in deep trouble,” says the author of "What's the Matter With Kansas," because the party’s Wall Street fealty has destroyed its ability to successfully challenge Donald Trump and Republicans.

The Midtown East proposal will allow higher skyscrapers — which means higher revenue for the New York real estate developers who collected donations for the mayor in the names of their wives and other family members.

In a Colorado fight over fracking, emails show constituents begging lawmakers to keep wells away from schools — while industry representatives sent invitations to “receptions” and “seminars.”

To the fury of progressives, the Democratic congressional campaign group is relying on the party’s conservative wing and Wall Street money to help win back the U.S. House.

A new book argues that Obama’s Justice department became “The Chickenshit Club” — creating the conditions for a white-collar crime spree.

The U.S. stock market has seen a major boom since Donald Trump was elected, with the private prison, defense, finance and materials industries making big gains. Gun manufacturers and coal companies, however, have seen better days.

Executives overseeing UnitedHealth's pharmacy benefit management said they were working to lower drug costs for consumers. The multiple plaintiffs who’ve filed class-action lawsuits against the company might disagree.

While the bank’s CFO wouldn’t comment on major financial regulatory measures, Goldman spends big on efforts to influence policy.

The California senator — in the spotlight thanks to her sharp interrogations of Jeff Sessions and other officials — met with major Democratic fundraisers last weekend.

Talking to investors on their second-quarter earnings calls, Jamie Dimon railed against the “stupid shit we have to deal with,” while Citigroup CEO Corbat looked forward to having more “people in the seats” with power over bank regulation.

Republicans have slipped provisions into appropriations bills to prevent the SEC from requiring companies to disclose their political spending.

President Donald Trump’s defenders say Don Jr., in seeking opposition research from a Russian, did no more than a DNC consultant who wanted information about Trump’s campaign manager from Ukrainian Embassy staff.

Buck McKeon, a former GOP lawmaker who represents both Saudi Arabia and Lockheed Martin, also pushed through last month's sale of $500 million worth of precision-guided munitions to the Kingdom.

IRS forms released Wednesday showed which industries donated to the Republican Governors Association under new chairman Scott Walker.

Behind what many frame as a battle in the name of either consumer protection or legal-system waste lies a fight between big bank and attorney lobbyists with vested interests.

The education secretary's brother, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, developed an Afghan military strategy that leaned more heavily on private contractors.

The vice president's political action committee courted potential donors at the offices of a lobbying firm that represents Saudi Arabia and Ukraine.

Democrats' move to block a health care initiative they once supported spotlights the party’s populist challenge in the Trump era.

President Donald Trump’s son may have run afoul of federal campaign finance law last June when he met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who promised “damaging information” on his father’s election opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Justice Antonin Scalia said citizens should be required to “stand up in public for their political acts.” But language inserted in recent appropriations bills protects so-called “dark money” groups, with their anonymous donors, from IRS scrutiny.