Our new 255 page Forensic investigation CalPERS: America’s Misled and Misleading Pension Leader  captures the twisted relationship CALPERS has with Private Equity whose 4 leading players are A…

He is the first pope in four centuries at Castel Gandolfo to carry the Madonna across the water himself. The word he put in the cynics’ mouths is the one Donald Trump reaches for whenever he wants to ...

The widening insurance controversy surrounding the Los Angeles Dodgers is no longer just a story about billionaires, private credit and professional sports. It may also be a story about schoolteach…

Kentucky politicians keep talking about data centers as though citizens have only two choices: Approve them.   Or complain about them.  There is another option sitting in Frankfort. …

Kentucky Republicans love talking about fiscal conservatism.    They love local control. They love complaining about government picking winners and losers. They love attacking ESG an…

Seventy-one percent of Americans oppose the data centers, and Ro Khanna just flew to Rome for the argument underneath the anger. This morning the pope handed it to lawmakers everywhere.

Seventy-one percent of Americans oppose the data centers, and Ro Khanna just flew to Rome for the argument underneath the anger. This morning the pope handed it to lawmakers everywhere.

When Pension Fight Club premiered in Sacramento in May, just steps from CalPERS, it looked like the culmination of years of battles over public pension secrecy. It may turn out to have been the beg…

Kelsey Reinhardt says no donor pressured Zeale and Ambassador Burch never intervened. Her statement confirms the donor talks, the Burch meeting, and a review process aimed at the topic of Israel.

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David Friedman, Trump’s ambassador to Israel from 2017 to 2021, told the pope he was damaging his credibility — and addressed him as “Your eminence,” a cardinal’s honorific.

Private equity has spent decades operating where most Americans rarely see it. A pension fund owns an LP interest in a private-equity fund. The PE fund owns dozens of companies. The contracts are s…

Forget the speeches about public service for a moment. Follow the money. For decades, becoming president could eventually make a family wealthy. Bill and Hillary Clinton made fortunes from books an…

Forget the speeches about public service for a moment. Follow the money. For decades, becoming president could eventually make a family wealthy. Bill and Hillary Clinton made fortunes from books an…

Great investigative work by Bloomberg’s Noah Buhayar and Jeff Kao. The Trump Labor Department has been trying to make it easier for private equity, private credit, crypto and other alternative asse…

Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land

Journalist Katie Phang has asked the court to fine Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche $1,000 per day until he turns over all the files.

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This move could make it easier for employers to take risks with their workers' money on Wall Street.

Backing by 103 Democrats underscores how sentiment in party towards Israel and Netanyahu government has soured

Backing by 103 Democrats underscores how sentiment in party towards Israel and Netanyahu government has soured

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday said it was prohibited by law from releasing unredacted files on Jeffrey Epstein requested by ​New Mexico, escalating a feud between the nation's top legal ...

On the evening America celebrated its 250th birthday, Dublin’s archbishop named anti-immigrant hatred for what it is — while Pope Leo prayed with migrants on Lampedusa.

A new academic report provides unusually strong evidence for a central argument made in both the our investigation of Ohio STRS and our broader CalPERS report: public-pension compensation systems c…

Bernie Sanders wants to nationalize half the stock of major AI companies and create a sovereign wealth fund for the American people. The case for going even further is stronger than most people realize.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEReps. Smith, Khanna, Sánchez, and Williams Introduce Protecting American Homes from Hedge Funds Act New legislation would permanently drive hedge funds out of the single-family…

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Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans.

Democratic powerbrokers are now positioned to use the Maine Senate candidate’s withdrawal to overturn voters’ policy demands.

This study examined the empirical performance of 58,000 retirement plans—pension plans and 401(k) plans—over sixteen years between 2009 to 2024 and found clear outperformance by the plans without alte...