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Foreign influence and global connections to local power.
Guns to the Caribbean, Scanners for the Border
Seventy-one boat strikes, 238 dead, a captured president in an American courtroom and Venezuela's oil in U.S.-controlled accounts — alongside 281 port scanners the government says it needs and has not bought.
The Piggy Bank: What America Buys Abroad, and What $23 Billion Does Not Buy at Home
A $331 billion arms headline that is mostly other countries' money, a $38 billion aid guarantee, one emergency bomb sale with its review waived — and 281 scanners the border is still short.
Foreign Money in a Midterm Year: What Is Documented, What Is Legal, and What Nobody Has Closed
Six-point-eight billion dollars of disclosed foreign spending, more than $7 million in campaign checks written by registered foreign agents, and the one bill the Senate has not moved. What is documented, and what is not.
The Warrant Netanyahu Cannot Outrun
The International Criminal Court's warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu is still open and still unserved. What the record shows about who is bound to act on it — and what Washington has spent so that nobody does.
Three Fires: Gaza, Hormuz, and the Strike on Aramco
A ceasefire a year old and still counting its dead, the worst shipping attacks since the Iran war began, and a missile in Aramco's headquarters — three stories, and what is actually verified in each.