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In today’s edition, we highlight an underdiscussed reason why damage from the war hasn’t eaten the U.S. economy: fiscal stimulus.
The industry is hugely lucrative, with endless sums of cash to influence lawmakers. A new report tracks 25 years of health insurance industry donations.
Regulatory capture could be the grandest scam ever, and California is the Wild West.
The domestic return of the New World screwworm, a parasite that can devastate cattle herds, happened while the Trump administration was focused on dismantling government.
Monopoly power has penetrated nearly every sector of commerce.
Here’s what’s happening across California and throughout the country today.
The world’s largest advertising conglomerate has proposed merging with the company that has built detailed profiles on every American.
The question speaks to how in the Democratic Party, there is no price paid for the inability to govern.
People have tuned out Trump’s promises of a deal. That is starting a cascade of consequences.
Suing slush fund recipients under the False Claims Act could claw back their payments, plus three times as much in damages.
What is sacrificed when running for a U.S. Senate seat?
Sen. Chris Murphy has a sense of what ails America, and he wants to restore its spiritual core.
Buoyed by billions in assistance from the state, real talk about what it takes to run New York City, and some taxes on the rich, the mayor closed a historic leftover budget deficit.
Death by a thousand cuts delivered by myriad assassins
A working-class voice, a policy wonk, and a champion of political revolution face off for Nancy Pelosi’s seat.
Agri Stats collected proprietary information from all meat producers and encouraged price increases for decades. After a Trump DOJ settlement, it’s allowed to stay in business.
In today’s edition, we discuss how the haphazard ending to the war won’t divert from the terrible path Donald Trump has led the world down.
Democratic Majority for Israel hastily got out of the Second District race after realizing the beneficiary of its spending had disavowed the group. It’s back under a different name.
The Milken Conference in Los Angeles is designed for the global financial elite. Their thinking about the Iran war is childish.
We are faced with corporate power so vast it spawned a conservative antitrust movement.
Spirit Airlines’ demise can be directly traced to the rise in jet fuel prices. That hasn’t stopped corporate Democrats from blaming Biden-era merger policy.
The independent from Nebraska is taking a second run at the U.S. Senate, against an even more appropriate opponent for his working class-vs.-billionaires message.
Nebraska congressional candidate Denise Powell had rejected the support of Democratic Majority for Israel. So DMFI transferred its ad buy to a different organization.
Reminiscent of the Gingrich Revolution, a multi-bill package would attack higher costs, raise wages, and get big money out of politics. Its architect sees it as a battle plan for the midterms.
Special elections have gone sharply against Donald Trump’s successes in the 2024 election. This November, the GOP’s bid to pick up four Democratic seats could similarly fall flat.
As Big Tech attempts to algo and chatbot your therapy, advocacy and new law fight to save the art and science of humans helping humans.
A refinery oligopoly and exclusive contracts allow the oil industry to price-gouge California drivers.
The way Republicans are managing the Department of Homeland Security budget shows that Congress is now just something to work around.
Financial futures indicate little damage from the Iran war. Reality begs to differ.
The scion of a political family wants to win Omaha’s swingy congressional district and improve lives for working people, amid attacks from both parties and doubts from apathetic residents.
Plastic is in many ways a vital technology, but did we really need to use it everywhere?
Today in the newsletter: Fertilizer prices are crushing rural farmers. Also, attacks on Gulf state aluminum smelters leave America exposed.
State AGs pick up the Fed’s slack and win one for the fans.
Companies thought they could get away with anything while Donald Trump was in office. But today they have a new problem: state attorneys general, and juries full of ordinary Americans.
In today’s newsletter: Higher aviation travel prices and even mass cancellations are imminent. Also, China is a big winner and loser from the war.
Are American voters changing their minds about the Israel lobby in American politics?
Today on Aftermath: How the war in Iran may lead to a boost in renewable energy
In today’s inaugural newsletter: plastic supply chains, sulfuric acid export bans, and the war drags on.
His sexual misconduct was an open secret. So why was he still seen as a rising star in the party?
Maintaining the momentum of Zohran Mamdani’s historically successful election campaign has meant doing the little things right.
Iran taking operational control of the Strait of Hormuz has enormous ripple effects.
It turns out he’s still alive, and still teaching at Fordham Law. We had some questions about an amendment that wasn’t written to meet a moment like this.
Iran has put a tollgate across the Strait of Hormuz. This fundamentally changes the global economy.
The system is not completely broken, and it shows when states pick up the shattered pieces of our federal system.
The industry bought companies for too much money and made a bunch of bad loans. Now they’re scrambling to avoid the reckoning.
The provider will be on the ground floor of the Dinkins Municipal Building, and is another step on the road to a free, universal program citywide.
An estimate of a new wealth tax proposal shows that it would generate twice as much revenue as it did when it was first introduced in 2021.
Even users don’t like it. So when you ask juries to render verdicts, they’re inclined to punish the platforms.
Everything would be funded except ICE enforcement, and some reforms added, while Republicans would try a long-shot reconciliation bill for ICE money afterward.
Bet you can’t guess who is insider trading the Iran War.