A corrupt politician in a dark suit and red tie clinks champagne glasses with a journalist wearing a press badge and blazer in a dimly lit, smoke-filled backroom. Stacks of money and government documents are visible in the background, symbolizing media complicity in political corruption.

The Watchdogs Became Lapdogs: The Press’s Complicity in Government Waste and Corruption

The grotesque spectacle of government waste and fraud now being dragged, squirming and indignant, into the light of day in these early weeks of the Trump administration is a revelation not just of the corruption inherent in our ruling class but of something perhaps more insidious: the failure—nay, the willing dereliction—of what dares to call […]