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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.
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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 MoreOctober 10, 2024
Memo: Is SCOTUS Avoiding Politically Sensitive Issues Before November?
In a new memo from the Court Accountability, Revolving Door Project, Take Back the Court, & True North Research, we ask whether the Supreme Court is avoiding putting politically sensitive cases on its docket before the November election.
October 09, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
RDP Work Round-Up: Pre-Election Edition
It’s time for another edition of an RDP Work Round-up to keep our loyal newsletter readers up-to-date with our blog posts. With the election less than a month away, now is the perfect time to look back at the polls, punditry, and policy debates that have dominated our news feeds lately. But first, we’d be remiss if we didn’t talk about the devastating hurricanes affecting the south east.
October 09, 2024
Will The Neoliberal YIMBYs Call Out Jason Furman’s Disagreement With Their Core Thesis
How have Jason Furman’s remarks on the New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show gone without condemnation from the usually aggressive YIMBY community?
October 07, 2024
Henry Burke Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
Hackwatch Anti-MonopolyCongressional OversightEconomic MediaIndependent AgenciesJason FurmanMedia Accountability
Jason Furman Isn’t Really Sure How Government Works
In classic economist fashion, Jason Furman’s lack of understanding hasn’t stopped him from complaining about Lina Khan… doing her job.
October 8, 2024
John McCracken - Investigate Midwest
Ag Secretary Vilsack deflects on future career plans, regulatory ‘revolving door
October 4, 2024
Catherine Lucey, Ken Thomas and Emily Glazer - The Wall Street Journal
Harris’s Brother-in-Law Forges Business Ties—but Makes Left Nervous
October 2, 2024
Donald Shaw - Sludge
A Corporate Lobbying Firm Is Advising the Harris Transition
September 27, 2024
Dell Cameron - Wired
As FTC Chair Lina Khan’s Term Expires, Democrats Are Torn Between Donors and Their Base
September 26, 2024
Saleha Mohsin - Bloomberg
Harris Allies Eye Building Business Ties, With Treasury in Focus
September 26, 2024
Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Progressives Sound Alarm as Harris Courts Crypto Industry
RDP on Twitter
By criticizing us, who agree with you that there's a big housing shortage that must be addressed, when not criticizing Furman you reveal your true preferences. This isn't about housing. This is about ideology. You'll abandon your professed YIMBYism to stand against progressives
In fact, Furman not only denies shortages, but he says he likes the administration going after (alleged) price fixers like RealPage. This is the one thing we support that you have most vociferously attacked as a distraction https://t.co/LVuQgDvPqI
Or is it just a dislike for our work more generally? Because we haven't heard a single concern from you over the possibility of Jason Furman having influence over the Harris administration despite him questioning the core tenet of YIMBYism just 5 days ago https://t.co/MwGVoXdcjL
Does your concern with our housing policy stem from the fact that we actually know what the FHFA does? https://t.co/vU6QpUOMUH https://t.co/aCPza3HT1C
Jason Furman recently publicly disagreed with some of the core tenets of YIMBY thought. Despite this he's gotten surprisingly little pushback from prominent neoliberal YIMBYs. Is this a case of neoliberal solidarity trumping support the YIMBY cause? https://t.co/MwGVoXdcjL
If you've missed any of our recent work, this week's newsletter has you covered. See our latest on opinion polls, housing issues, oil industry oversight, obscure agency appointments, and more! ⬇️ https://t.co/AYHCtcFDQX