It is gratifying to watch the media suddenly discover such concepts as the independence of the judiciary, conflicts of interest, and press freedom. For the eight years of President Barack Obama’s tenure, the media treated conservatives who raised those concerns as racists, or cranks, or both.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tasked a number of his cabinet officials with traveling to Washington to meet their counterparts in the Trump administration in anticipation of a one-on-one meeting between the two leaders.
On Monday, the director of the Office of Government Ethics, Obama donor Walter Shaub, Jr., was admonished by a bipartisan group of Congressmen for using his non-partisan office as a platform to attack President Donald J. Trump.
Justin Trudeau hates Donald Trump. Trudeau’s whole team does — his MPs, his cabinet ministers, his campaign staff. They know they shouldn’t say so publicly, but they just can’t help themselves.
President-elect Donald J. Trump and his transition team unveiled an extensive plan to avoid conflicts of interest between his private business empire and his public office at a press conference at Trump Town in Manhattan on Wednesday morning.
True to our nonpartisan mission, nine years ago, we worked with then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Special Task Force on Ethics Enforcement to push for an independent body to help handle ethics investigations of House members.
Breitbart News Senior Editor Peter Schweizer, head of the Government Accountability Institute and author of Clinton Cash, talked about the ill-fated effort by House Republicans to reform the ethics oversight system on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.
Donald Trump proposed a package of ethics reforms at his campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Monday night after he criticized his opponent Hillary Clinton and the investigation into her use of a private email server.
The State Department was unable to find any records showing that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton completed ethics training courses, as required by federal law.
Rep. Mimi Walters (R-CA)’s chief of staff, David Bowser, 45, resigned on Wednesday following news of federal corruption charges and indictments related to his work in a different congressional office.
The heated battle over cultural insensitivity at Yale University has a new victim: Science.
Attorney General Kamala Harris, running for the U.S. Senate, may be investigated by the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) after the agency received an anonymous tip that gifts she received may have exceeded legal limits.
Production of the film Zero Dark Thirty, which chronicled the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the Navy SEAL raid that killed him in 2011, has long been controversial. Now a Zero Dark Thirty controversy is being brought to light by newly-released documents: the filmmakers were nearly prosecuted for bribing some of the CIA officials with whom they worked.
Politics makes us stupid. That was Ezra Klein’s thumbnail version of a dilemma social science says exists at the core of all political journalism.
Three people with deep ties to the Ron and Rand Paul presidential campaigns were indicted Wednesday after months of investigation. Jesse Benton, John Tate, and Dimitri Kesari are charged with multiple counts, including conspiracy and filing false campaign expenditure reports.
Alec Kubas-Meyer wrote an article titled “Gamergate Fail: The Rise of Ass-Kicking Women in Video Games” on Tuesday at The Daily Beast proclaiming that the prominence of games starring women at this year’s Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3), the biggest gaming event of the year, was proof of the gaming industry striking back at the GamerGate movement.
What if your driverless car decides that your life is expendable in order to save a school bus full of children?
British police are currently in talks with a technology company regarding plans to introduce predictive software said to be capable of predicting when serious criminals will strike, despite the obvious ethical problems posed by such software. It sounds more like the
Belgian police announced an investigation after photographs surfaced of two men celebrating in the autopsy room of two dead terrorists.
Three current and one former Texas congressmen are under an ethics investigation, along with six others, in connection with an all-expenses-paid luxury trip to the Caspian Sea, financed by an Azerbaijan state-run company.
State Sen. Kevin de León may have acted unethically last year, calling an organization whose proposal he was guiding through legislative committees and asking if his daughter could apply for a job there.
Chinese scientists genetically modified human embryos for the first time in history, receiving backlash from the international community. Junjiu Huang, a gene-function researcher at Sun Yat-sen University, and his group clarified that they used non-viable embryos for their experiment.
Recent suicides by two Missouri state politicians have raised questions on state ethics, according to an NPR report Thursday.
In what is being dubbed “the most important new genetic engineering technique since the beginning of the biotechnology age in the 1970s,” scientists have made an enormous breakthrough in editing human genetic material. The possibilities of the technology are so vast that scientists themselves are already calling for ethical discussion and restraint.
The State Bar of Texas has filed a formal accusation of misconduct against John H. Jackson, the former Navarro County Assistant District Attorney who convicted Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in February 2004 for the arson murder of his three young daughters. The Bar had been investigating Jackson for months, and he is accused of obstruction of justice, making false statements and concealing evidence favorable to Willingham’s defense. Pursuant to the disciplinary petition filed by the Texas Bar, Jackson has fifty days from the date of service of the petition to respond.
The investigation into what many feel is questionable spending by Illinois Representative Aaron Schock is growing. The inquiry has now grown to the point where some of the Republican’s associates are being contacted by congressional investigators.
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) is in hot water again, as USA Today reports that he used private aircraft instead of commercial flights while paying with taxpayer money and campaign funds.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott moved forward with his priority legislation items by declaring five issues to be “emergency items.” The emergency designation allows the Texas Legislature to act on the items within the first sixty days of the session which
New Oregon Governor Kate Brown, a Democrat who helped oust her predecessor, John Kitzhaber (D), ostensibly because of ethics concerns, has ethics problems as well. Brown, the first openly bisexual governor in the nation, is known for her ruthless pursuit of power.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott delivered his first State of the State Address to a joint session of the Texas Legislature and a packed gallery in the Texas House Chamber. During his address, the new governor laid out his agenda for
