The Paper Trail

Trump Escapes $100M Tax Penalty;
The Front Groups Fueling the 2026 Midterms
The Ubiquity of Gambling in Televised Sports;
And More.

CIA Escalates Secret War on Mexican Cartels; Trump Considering 250 Pardons to Mark U.S. Birthday; Golden Dome Estimated to Cost $1.2 Trillion; And More.

Comey Prosecution Roils DOJ; Congress’s Sexual Harassment Slush Fund; Kash Patel’s Personalized Booze; And More.

America’s New Surveillance Dragnet; Comey Indicted for Seashell Photo; Trump’s New Crypto Club; And More.

K Street Cashes in on Venezuelan Oil; SCOTUS Shadow Docket: The Inside Story; Taxpayers on the Hook for Swalwell Pension; And More.

Court Voids New Pentagon Press Policy; White House Ballroom to Use Donated Foreign Steel; CDC Delays Report on COVID Vaccine Benefits; And More.

DHS Launches “Less Lethal” Weapons Buying Spree; Trump’s Secret Global Health Agreements; Data Centers Make Life Hotter for 340 Million People; And More.

IG Investigating DHS Contracts; Insiders Trading on Trump’s Market-Moving Decisions; Meta’s Bad Week in Court; And More. 

Contractors Allege “Pay-To-Play” at DHS; DOD Seeks $200B in New Iran War Funding; FCC OKs Broadcast TV Mega-Merger; And More. 

Markwayne Mullin’s Stock Trading Raises Concern;  DOJ Leans on Prosecutors in Brennan Probe;  IRS Criminal Referrals of Big Companies Plummet;  And More. 

DOJ Seeks Tighter Grip on State Bar Ethics Probes; Immigration Crackdown Targets U.S. Citizens; How DOD Spent Its 2025 Year-End Use-It-Or-Lose-It Funds; And More.

The Money Behind the Iran War; Trump Planning to Seize Power Over Elections; IRS Broke Law Approximately 42,695 Times; And More.