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About the Revolving Door Project
The Revolving Door Project (RDP) scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement.
Projects
The Agency Spotlight
The Agency Spotlight tracks appointments to leadership positions at thirty-nine independent federal agencies through the confirmation process and beyond. Additionally, for three agencies — the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — the Spotlight monitors and exhibits key votes.
Learn MoreHackwatch
Hackwatch is where we monitor the mainstream media’s favorite Democratic-leaning economic analysts for conflicts of interest, perverse incentives, and just flat-out erroneous reasoning. We identify who the bad actors are, explain why they’re compromised and wrong, and demand that outlets stop poisoning the information ecosystem with discredited neoliberal orthodoxy and start giving people access to other, better-informed perspectives.
Learn MoreSupreme Transparency
Supreme Transparency—a project of Take Back the Court, True North Research, and the Revolving Door Project—sheds light on an oft-overlooked way that the U.S. Supreme Court’s billionaire benefactors peddle influence: amicus briefs. The Supreme Transparency site exposes the more subtle yet no less destructive ways that right-wing amicus filers and oligarchic court-whisperers hold sway over SCOTUS.
Learn MoreJuly 13, 2024
The Supreme Court’s Billionaire Buddies Just Made Your Life Worse
SCOTUS’ assault on Chevron doctrine is an assault on everyday people, carried out on behalf of corporations and the Court’s wealthy benefactors.
July 12, 2024
Economic Policy And SCOTUS
The media needs to start getting wise to the court’s role in shaping the economy.
July 10, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
RDP Work Roundup: 4th of July Edition
After a long 4th of July weekend, we figure this a good time to take a look back at the important work we’ve fired off over the last month or so. From analyses of Trump’s executive tenure to a take-down of a Big Oil myth pushed by compromised Democrats, here’s another edition of an RDP Work Roundup for you to digest along with your leftovers from holiday barbecues.
July 10, 2024
The New Emissions Standards Are A Missed Opportunity For The Biden Admin’s Fight Against Climate Change
July 3, 2024
David Dayen - The American Prospect
Deputy AG Monaco Asked to Recuse from DOJ Boeing Decision
June 27, 2024
David Dayen - The American Prospect
The Government Created the Most Profitable Company in America
June 18, 2024
Nicholas Cunningham - Gas Outlook
Pollution from “certified gas” going undetected, says new report
June 14, 2024
Brad Johnson - Hill Heat
Toxic Tales
June 13, 2024
Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Supreme Court Starbucks Ruling Seen as Gift to Corporate Union-Busters
June 13, 2024
Adam Lowenstein - The Guardian
‘Perilous for democracy, good for profits’: is big business ready to love Trump again?
RDP on Twitter
NEW: Our @merryvishmas and @willroyce_ write in @commondreams on how the end of Chevron doctrine will make your life worse. https://t.co/SWpysDk1fG
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RT @taraghuveer: Tenants have organized like their lives depend on it (they do); this is an early result of mounting pressure— and solid id…
RT @taraghuveer: Today the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced regulations— the first of their kind— to condition federal financing on…