Who decides, and who answers for it.
The officials and institutions making the call, and the record they leave.
- Analysis ICE Vouches for Venturella's Ethics, Skips His 11 Years at GEOAsked about its acting director's private prison past, $2.2 billion in prison purchases and Medicaid data that ended up with Palantir, ICE sent a biography, a slogan and a swipe at a lawsuit it did not name.
- News Vanity Fair Publishes Book Excerpt Alleging Kushner Used Gulf-Funded Accounts. Kushner Calls It Categorically False.The excerpt from Matthew Cole's Princes and Thieves says Dutch intelligence watched Jared Kushner's hacked phone and saw accounts fed by Saudi and Emirati money. No records were published with it. Here is what is claimed, what is denied, and what is confirmed.
- Opinion Opinion: Congress Wrote a Lock on Russia Sanctions, Then Handed the White House the KeyThe Graham Act says the sanctions end only with peace in Ukraine. It also lets them vanish with one certification nobody has to explain in public. Congress should stop writing laws with a back door built in.
- Analysis Congress Passed Russia Sanctions That End Only With a Ukraine Peace Deal. One Order Waived Them With a Single Certification.The Graham Act says sanctions can be terminated only after Russia signs a peace agreement Ukraine accepts. It also lets the president waive them by certifying the national interest. The Oct. 16 order did that, and waived the termination section too.
- Explainer Who Decides Your Electricity Bill? Not the Power Company. A State Board You Probably Never Heard Of.Utilities ask, state commissions decide. Two live cases show how it works: a $456 million request in Michigan and a 21.9% increase in Delaware, half of which customers are already paying.
- Analysis CMS Canceled Obamacare for 760,000 People. Its Own Fact Sheet Does Not Say How It Decided.This was not a new rule and not a subsidy cutoff. It was one Aug. 31 action against enrollments the government calls unauthorized. Here is what the record shows and what it leaves out.