Over the weekend, photos of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie enjoying the beach with his family infuriated constituents, to whom beaches were closed over the Fourth of July thanks to a government shutdown over a budget dispute. Though Christie probably couldn’t care less, he’s now being hit by an official complaint…
On Wednesday, the White House released its list of ethics waivers to a number of staff members whose connections in the private sector have called their ability to serve the public into question. The waivers conveniently smooth over objections to employees who may be supporting corporate interests.
The Associated Press
reports that on the same day Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner joined a Mar-a-Lago dinner with Chinese president Xi Jinping, the Chinese government gave provisional approval to her company for three new trademarks.
The president’s supporters enjoy him because he frequently “speaks his mind,” especially on Twitter, openly and without regard for “political correctness” or the “truth.” On Thursday, however, the carefree tweeting style of the president and his aides were in clear and unambiguous conflict with statutory prohibitions…
Piling onto what’s shaping up to be a pretty bad week for the Trump administration, in letters to the House Oversight Committee and White House deputy counsel Stefan Passantino, the Office of Government Ethics urged the White House to investigate that time Kellyanne Conway blatantly broke federal ethics rules on live…
Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz has sent a furious letter to the Office of Government Ethics for openly criticizing Donald Trump’s very shaky plans to deal with his conflicts of interest. Chaffetz chairs the House Oversight Committee, which funds the ethics office. He indicated that maybe they won’t fund the…
Apricot hobgoblin Donald Trump is preparing to take office in just 11 days, and so are the people he’s hired to fill his Cabinet. Somehow, most of them haven’t found the time to complete an intensive ethics review that would reveal their conflicts of interest, financial and otherwise. Trump’s picks are a collection of…
The first rule of ethics is not “ignore them.”
One by one, Hamilton’s original Broadway cast shuffles off the stage and answers our—and King George’s—question: what comes next? For newly-minted Tony winner Renée Elise Goldsberry, the answer is the titular role in HBO’s film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
In an extraordinary article entitled “The Voyeur’s Motel,” published in the April 11, 2016 issue of The New Yorker, Gay Talese told the story of how he became involved with a serial voyeur named Gerald Foos. Foos, in the late 1960s, had purchased the 21-room Manor House Motel in Aurora, Colorado with the express…
Much of the East Coast is about to get slammed by a nor’easter, with areas in and around Washington D.C. set to receive up to two feet or more of snow. Schools have been canceled, airports are functionally shut down, and even D.C.’s Metro is set to shutter for the weekend. But you’re hungry, and you’ve either got…
A new bill would require Missouri lawmakers to disclose any lobbyists they might be having sex with on ethics forms. Unlike non-sexual gifts, lawmakers wouldn’t have to estimate how much the sex is worth monetarily. Which is really too bad.
I bet Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker feels very bashful after accidentally failing to disclose millions of dollars earned since becoming a senator in 2007. Especially since he is a high-ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee! That is so embarrassing for him!
The premise of Jane the Virgin centers around a young woman who becomes pregnant after being artificially inseminated accidentally. If you can believe it, almost this exact conundrum occurred in real life when a woman was mistakenly implanted with another couple’s embryo.
In October, Anna Stubblefield, 45, a Rutgers University ethics professor, was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault against her severely disabled adult student. She was set to be sentenced on Monday, but her defense team has filed a motion to have her conviction overturned or convene a new trial. The now-divorced…
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All day Tuesday, the race-boggling Montana-American Rachel Dolezal embarked upon a tour of our televisions. First, she stopped at The Today Show, during which Dolezal expressed her disdain for those who would “whitewash” her social justice work as a white woman pretending to be a black woman. (“I identify as black,”…
For over 20 years, the state of Indiana hoarded the blood of newborns without their parents' consent. If your child was born in Indiana after 1991, chances are his or her blood sample is one of an estimated 2.5-million specimens currently stored in a warehouse, the location of which state officials have not…
Looking to catch your fellow humans on their very best behavior? New research suggests you'd be well served to try them in the morning. Which is ironic, since I'd mug a schoolchild for an egg sandwich and a cup of coffee right now.
Have you been acting dishonest around the office lately by taking credit for other people's work or misreporting numbers? There's a chance that your recent acts of workplace scum-baggery are not entirely your fault. New research shows that the impulse to cheat might come from (or is at least encouraged by) a lack of…
