Trump Defense Team Includes Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr
Jan 17, 2020 The additions bring experience in the politics of impeachment as well as constitutional law.
The Secret to Living Longer Is Being Rich, Study Reveals
Sep 9, 2019 The connection between Americans’ lifespans and how much money they have is “a failure of social policy.”Health Care Sign-Ups Lag as Saturday Deadline Looms
Dec 12, 2018 Fewer people are registering for the Affordable Care Act, despite stable premiums and financial aid available for millions of the uninsured.
‘Pink Tax’ Applies to Mortgages, Cars and Other Markets, Report Finds
Aug 26, 2018 A congressional watchdog agency says women pay more than men for items that extend far beyond the toiletry section, such as big-ticket, gender-neutral goods and services.Pruitt Broke Spending Law in Buying Privacy Booth, GAO Finds
Apr 16, 2018 The Government Accountability Office says the Environmental Protection Agency ran afoul of federal spending laws by buying a $43,000 soundproof booth for Scott Pruitt to make private calls in his office.Exposed: Secret TSA Checklist of ‘Suspicious’ Behavior
Mar 30, 2015 A Transportation Security Administration checklist obtained by The Intercept lists throat clearing, whistling and “exaggerated yawning” in airports as suspicious behavior. “Democracy Now!” speaks to The Intercept’s Cora Currier about the revelation.
Report Criticizes EPA Oversight of Injection Wells
Jul 31, 2014 The Government Accountability Office says environmental regulators are failing to adequately enforce rules for wells used to dispose of toxic waste from drilling.
Bias Alleged in WikiLeaks Documentary ‘We Steal Secrets’
May 30, 2013 Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney's new documentary on Julian Assange and Bradley Manning focuses "on character assassination rather than conscience" and portrays "whistleblowing as something that is deviant," writes Jesselyn Radack of the whistle-blower protection group Government Accountability Project.‘Daily Show’: It’s the Career Politicians, Stupid
Jan 20, 2010 Why is the U.S. in the dire financial straits it's in? Well, "Comeback America" author David Walker, who was formerly the country's comptroller general and head of the Government Accountability Office, has a few ideas about what led to our "dysfunctional democracy" and he lays it all out in this clip from "The Daily Show."
Bernanke Offers Fed’s AIG Records to Gov’t Watchdogs
Jan 20, 2010 The Fed has nothing to hide about its dealings with AIG when it saved the too-big-to-fail insurance behemoth during the great bailout of 2008-9 -- or at least Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has signaled his full willingness to make the central bank's relevant "records and personnel" available to investigators from the Government Accountability Office.
