Latest from Peter Wallsten
He thought Clinton would be stronger in November. He voted for Sanders anyway.
After months of enduring candidates’ pitches, New Hampshire voters finally got their chance — and they went with their hearts.
- Feb 9, 2016
From dead broke to multimillionaires
Starting two weeks after his last day as president, Bill began giving paid speeches — a career that has generated extraordinary wealth.
- May 19, 2015
The Secret Service and Operation Moonlight
In the summer of 2011, Secret Service agents responsible for monitoring the White House grounds were reassigned to help protect an agency staffer who was a close friend of the Secret Service director. The agents involved were members of a special unit called Prowler, which is responsible for monitoring the White House perimeter. The unit is especially focused on the South Lawn between 15th and 17th Streets NW, when the president is leaving or arriving via helicopter and motorcade.
- May 10, 2014
Rubio ‘surprised and disappointed’ by sugar tycoon’s position on Cuba
The senator's criticism of Alfonso Fanjul's visits to the country, which is under a trade embargo, was softer than the reactions of other Cuban Americans.
- Feb 4, 2014
Congresswoman lashes out at tycoon for opening door to Cuba
Sugar tycoon and longtime anti-Castro exile leader Alfonso Fanjul has quietly traveled to Cuba and is open to doing business there prompted an angry response Monday from a Cuban American member of Congress, who called Fanjul’s actions “pathetic” and “shameful."
- Feb 3, 2014
Sugar tycoon Alfonso Fanjul now open to investing in Cuba under ‘right circumstances’
After decades of funding the anti-Castro movement, Alfonso Fanjul has quietly engaged with Cuba’s regime.
- Feb 2, 2014
Bidens now have a new family foothold in politically important Florida
Biden’s brother James B. Biden Sr. and sister-in-law Sarah Jones Biden have purchased a five-acre, oceanfront estate in Naples.
- Dec 31, 2013
Sugar protections prove easy to swallow for lawmakers on both sides of aisle
As contentious farm-bill negotiations continue, this industry’s decades-old safety net still has bipartisan support.
- Dec 7, 2013
The U.S. sugar industry: Names to know
The Fanjuls: This Palm Beach, Fla.-based family controls the world’s largest sugar refining operation. Led by the politically connected brothers Alfonso “Alfy” Fanjul and José “Pepe” Fanjul, the famil...
- Dec 7, 2013
Alan Gross, former USAID contractor jailed in Cuba, appeals to Obama to intervene
Alan Gross’s letter urging the president to intervene comes on the fourth anniversary of his arrest.
- Dec 2, 2013