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“Under Lee Zeldin, anti-pollution enforcement is dying a quick death,” remarked PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse, ...

On the 16th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision that unleashed unlimited election spending ...

In response to President Trump's speech at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Nabil Ahmed, senior director of economic ...

Sixteen years ago, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Citizens United that allows corporations to flood our elections with unlimited amounts of money.Lisa Gilbert and Robert Weissman, co-presidents ...

Today marks one year since Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.Public Citizen co-presidents Robert Weissman and Lisa Gilbert issued the following ...

In what has been described as a “barrage of attacks on workers,” the U.S. Department of Labor under President Donald Trump is planning to overhaul dozens of rules that protect workers from ...

The first US sale of Venezuelan oil since the Trump administration illegally attacked the South American country earlier this month went to the company of a trader who donated millions to President ...

As millions of Americans face cuts to their healthcare and food assistance, Trump pocketed at least $1.4 billion during his first year back in office in what the New York Times described as an ...

President Donald Trump, a documented liar, appeared to confirm in a televised interview that aired Tuesday night that the US military deployed a “secret sonic weapon” against Venezuelan and Cuban ...

Today, former special counsel Jack Smith will testify before the House Judiciary Committee in a public hearing to explain why he indicted President Trump, countering the president’s baseless assertion ...

After weeks of authoritarian threats to crush protests with the military, cancel elections, conquer foreign countries, and send masked agents door-to-door to round up anyone who can’t prove their ...