Workers for DAPP Malawi say a cult-like organization called the Teachers Group demanded that staff members attend indoctrination sessions.
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Matt Smith is a reporter for Reveal, covering religion. Smith's two-decade career in journalism began at The Sacramento Union in California. He went on to positions at newspapers in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Twin Falls, Idaho; Fairfield, California; and Newport News, Virginia. Between 1994 and 1997, Smith covered Latin America as a reporter in Dow Jones & Co.'s Mexico City bureau. For 14 years, he was a lead columnist at Village Voice Media in San Francisco. He came to Reveal from The Bay Citizen. Smith holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Before his career in journalism, Smith was a professional bicycle racer. He is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era
Ethics office couldn’t punish administration. So it just tried to shame
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Posted inAccountability, The (Un)Scientific Method, The Trump Era
Inside the secret lobbying of Trump’s nominee for a top Interior spot
Internal emails show just how much some lawmakers rely on lobbyists for help with the nuts-and-bolts tasks of lawmaking.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era
Trump’s Interior nominee dogged by questions over lobbying
A new complaint says Trump’s nominee for the No. 2 post at the Interior Department, David Bernhardt, violated the law by continuing to act as a lobbyist.
Posted inAccountability, Sustainability, The (Un)Scientific Method, The Trump Era
Trump nominee kept working with client after pledge to stop lobbying
Documents show that David Bernhardt maintained close contact with his client after testifying before Congress that he’d ceased lobbying.
Posted in#CitizenSleuth, Accountability, The Trump Era
Trump partner consolidates role as federal government’s top landlord
The president’s business empire caught a break when his government abandoned a development plan for the FBI headquarters.
Posted inAccountability
Ivanka Trump could help her company by softening father’s trade policies
In the week’s roundup of Trump-related conflicts: What trade restrictions would do to the first daughter’s business, two ethics enforcers resign and Jared Kushner is sued for not disclosing business ties.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era
The private money that’s after Trump’s public infrastructure projects
Some of the same Australians seeking new U.S. infrastructure deals already have had their hands in a privatization project that was once a bane of former Indiana Gov. and current Vice President Mike Pence.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era
Trump’s business conflicts cast a shadow over Middle East policy
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Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era
The problem with Gingrich’s accusations about Mueller’s team
Most federal prosecutors don’t give money to politicians, a review of campaign finance records by Reveal suggests. But the records show that several hundred employees of U.S. attorney’s offices around the country have made political donations in recent years.