Lachlan Markay is a staff writer for the Washington Free Beacon. He comes to the Beacon from the Heritage Foundation, where he was the conservative think tank's first investigative reporter. He was also a contributing editor for Newsbusters.org. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner. He graduated from Hamilton College in 2009, and currently lives in Washington, D.C. His Twitter handle is @lachlan. His email address is markay@freebeacon.com.
An investment firm owned and run by one of Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s many billionaire political supporters is under federal investigation after news reports revealed patterns of discrimination against minority customers and employees.
Florida man Josue Larose was recently fined $500,000 for filing fraudulent campaign finance paperwork, but that hasn’t stopped him from declaring his candidacy for the U.S. Senate for the second time and founding more than 300 Super PACs and political committees this month alone.
A tax-and-spending package hammered out by congressional leaders this week would accomplish some long-held conservative energy policy goals, but provisions that would subsidize renewable energy and finance a recent United Nations climate accord have some on the right fuming.
First Amendment advocates are heaping praise on a tentative spending deal agreed to by congressional leaders this week, saying it heads off Obama administration attempts to restrict spending on political speech through administrative or executive action.
The left’s leading donor club is marshaling high-dollar donors, labor unions, and birth control activist Sandra Fluke to target moderate state legislators in California, according to internal documents.
A group led by a former federal prosecutor is asking authorities to investigate allegations that then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton used her position to advance a family friend’s business interests.
Fresh off his astounding escape from a Mexican prison, Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is warning the Islamic State against interfering with his drug cartel’s operations.
A green energy company backed by billions in taxpayer funds is pouring money into its lobbying operation even as its parent company teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, government documents show.
The nation’s leading civil liberties organization is not opposed to efforts to deprive people on U.S. terrorism watch lists of their constitutional rights, but it says the watch lists themselves need to be reformed first.
National Democrats are growing concerned over the spending habits of one of their top Senate recruits, who is burning through cash thanks in part to lavish spending on hotels, airfare, and political consultants.
