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This Week’s Scandals: Blago’s Bribes, Blackwater And More

Every week, we take stock of how the week unfolded for the stories we're tracking in Scandal Watch (see the right sidebar). Here is … more…

Obama and Transparency: Walking the Talk

President-elect Barack Obama's transition team seems to be following through with its promise of transparency by posting documents fr … more…

Blagojevich, Bribes and More!

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich had the sole power to replace Barack Obama's seat in the Senate. That's unlikely to be the case for … more…

Rahmbo’s Revolving Door: Take 3

Since Rahm Emanuel was appointed the next White House chief of staff last month, we've been retracing his previous life as an invest … more…

Vendettas and Shady Ethics: Meet the Candidates to Replace Obama

Barack Obama's impending move to the White House has brought embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich new-found popularity, at least a … more…

Change.gov ‘Agenda’ Pages Are Back

The agenda pages that we told you disappeared from Change.gov, President-elect Barack Obama's transition Web site, have returned in n … more…

Transparency Groups Push Obama on Agenda

Freedom of information advocates have a lengthy to-do list for President-elect Barack Obama and Congress.

A report (PDF) from a coa … more…

Where Obama Stands: Clean Coal and CO2 Storage

“We’ll invest in technology that will allow us to use more coal, America’s most abundant energy source, with the goal of creati … more…

Obama Office Calls Mulligan on Change.gov

So why have the pages outlining President-elect Barack Obama's agenda been deleted from the president-elect's Web site?

"We're reto … more…

Obama’s ‘Agenda’ Disappears From Change.gov

We noted Friday that President-elect Barack Obama’s transition Web site, Change.gov, included pages describing how he will use techno … more…

Obama Details Promises for Transparency

Yesterday, we looked at President-elect Obama’s stance on transparency. As we noted, Obama’s record on the issue isn’t spotless, but … more…

Where Obama Stands: Private Contractors

In a September speech, President-elect Obama said that he would cut billions of dollars of funding for private contractors. As … more…

Where Obama Stands: Executive Power

Obama, once a scholar of constitutional law, has spoken out against Bush’s use of executive authority. Now that he has won th … more…

The Bush-Obama Bailout?

We’ve been hearing for weeks about how the Treasury Department is on the cusp of dramatically widening its current bailout program. F … more…

Will Obama Keep Transparency Promises?

[Update 11.17: Obama just released more details about his proposals on transparency. Here's a short piece we've just posted about t … more…

Surprise Us!

President-elect Obama’s transition team is making noise about tight ethics restrictions in the coming administration. From the Washin … more…

What Letter Was McCain Referring to?

Oct. 10: This post has been updated.

Both John McCain and Barack Obama took turns during the second presidential debate on Tuesday … more…

RNC Files Complaint, Cites Questionable Obama Donations

"Doodad Pro" in Nunda, N.Y. is apparently a big fan of Barack Obama. So enthusiastic, in fact, that when he/she contributed thousands … more…

Senator Barack Obama’s Presidential Nomination Speech - A Visual Annotation

The Candidates—Where They Stand on Market ‘Reform’

Tonight's presidential debate was supposed to be about foreign policy, but with the financial system edging toward a breakdown, all q … more…