Kevin Johnson and Michelle Rhee. Also, America's Scammiest Couple. I love how a couple that has become famous talking about the supposed corruption of teachers' unionism are pulling a scam Whitey Bulger would be proud of.
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Richard Hofstadter was a very influential historian but he was also a tremendous snob whose personal proclivities would not make him look positively at a bunch of poor southern farmers..
As a follower of Oregon politics, I always knew John Kitzhaber was an odd duck, but I certainly never would have thought him corrupt or lacking an understanding of ethics..
I see the politicians of states ranging from Louisiana and New York to Rhode Island and Illinois rallying around this Oklahoma proposal: A new bill proposed by Oklahoma State Representative Kevin Calvey (R) would prohibit district attorneys from prosecuting state elected officials, legislators, district court...
The historian Richard White, author of one of the delightfully angriest books of history in recent years, demonstrates some of the ways we have created a New Gilded Age, in.
There's a reason that corporations love state regulators and state politicians--they can easily buy them for cheap. Such is the politics of the New Gilded Age, when politicians are as.
Color me shocked that a Republican as principled and upstanding as Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is as crooked as a bag of snakes.* You'd think McDonnell would have just waited for the big grift until he was out of office and a lobbyist himself. *...
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam's personal financial stake in the company that received $330 million of outsourced state services. With bonus Roger Staubach involvement.
It appears that Sepp Blatter's cunning ploy succeeded. Mohamed Bin Hammam has pulled out of the race to serve as FIFA President, leaving the field about as competitive as a.
Chuck Blazer weighs in. I still believe that this is an admittedly risky tactic that Blatter is using to ensure his reelection, and once that's secured normal business will resume (FIFA is not corrupt! How dare you imply otherwise!) but there remains an outside chance...
Let me recommend the excellent work of Amy Butler at Ares on the new Air Force tanker contract bid situation. Long story short, Northrup-Grumman/EADS/Airbus is claiming that the new requirements.
Spencer:Is it wrong to have, on some level, respect for just how gangster Rod Blagojevich is? Yes; yes it is. But I nonetheless have some respect for just how gangster.