His investments make money even when his ventures fail!

GOP lawmakers are pushing forward a bill to repeal a vital shell company database—completely undoing the biggest anti-kleptocracy step forward the U.S. has seen in decades.

The president hits new heights of kleptocratic chicanery. Plus an update on the endangered “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.”

The president’s demand for a slush fund to pay billions of dollars to his cronies places him among the planet’s most infamous political criminals.

He probably cheats himself and just wants a little company.

The hands forever reaching across the aisle too often do so in the service of monstrous corruption.

If you remember the second Iraq War, you know how this story ends.

Venezuela proves that the “peace candidate” is just fine with war. As long as it’s fought only for power, plunder, and conquest.

Trump’s second term has been so lurid in its corruption that it was genuinely hard to narrow this list down.

It’s no wonder Trump wants one of his own.

As you might suspect, it’s just a fancy word for oligarchy and kleptocracy.

How does the president’s brand of kleptocracy work? It turns out rentier politics is even more lucrative than rentier capitalism.

Maybe it’s not so mysterious after all: A blockbuster new report reveals that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem secretly took $80,000 in dark-money political donations for herself.

The president’s lust for self-enrichment knows no bounds—but now, he’s getting bipartisan cover for his corruption.

While the American people get saddled with the staggering cost of his trade war, the president has given the world’s worst actors the license to misbehave.

The quid pro quo deal between the president and the mayor of New York City will throw open the foreign corruption floodgates.

As Trump puts Republicans on notice against daring to criticize him, a reporter who covers D.C. influence peddling explains how he is already building a new Trump kleptocracy right before our eyes.

Trump’s one-time aide-de-camp and bagman for corrupt foreign regimes is returning to his old stomping grounds, rolling back precious progress against a world of kleptocrats.

Fresh reporting expands what we know about the consulting firm’s ever-growing web of services to corrupt regimes all over the planet.

Her malfeasances may not be the most egregious, but they should provoke serious reform. No wonder Washington’s influence peddlers are circling the wagons.