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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 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 04, 2024
YIMBYism Doesn’t Mean You Have To Ignore Price Fixing
Housing Policy Doesn’t Have To Be Rocket Science, But Ignoring Real Issues To Make It Appear More Simple Is Wrong.
October 03, 2024
The Harris Campaign Doesn't Need Adam Kovacevich's Advice
In addition to his litany of Big Tech connections and friendship with far right Senator Tom Cotton, Kovacevich began his political career as a Harvard undergrad successfully fighting a grape boycott organized by labor unions. Around the same time, his family’s non-union grape farm was fined thousands of dollars by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration for “serious violations.”
October 03, 2024
Unions In Sweden Don’t Do This, Says Man Who Opposes Efforts To Make US Unions As Strong As Swedish Ones
Institute For Progress Co-Founder Alec Stapp has decided to use Swedish Unions as an example for US labor leaders. So why doesn’t he support pro-union policies?
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
September 25, 2024
Michael Hiltzik - Yahoo News
Column: Will the Postal Service be up to the task of delivering ballots on time? Election officials are worried
RDP on Twitter
Matt Yglesias claims "Housing policy isn't that complicated" while arguing that we need to ignore issues like RealPage because they're distractions. This... doesn't make sense. Talking about zoning doesn't preclude enforcing our very basic antitrust laws https://t.co/LVuQgDvhBa
The port strike may be over. But that doesn't mean that we should let disingenuous claims by anti-union pundits slide. You can't invoke the Swedish labor model while... opposing all of the policies that allowed for the creation of the Swedish labor model https://t.co/jfqdBcmmao
Before his career was funded by Big Tech, Adam Kovacevich worked to end Harvard's participation in the farmworkers union grape boycott. The union-supported Harris campaign shouldn't take his staffing advise. https://t.co/JAQNXtxcyh
RT @kj_boyle: Kovacevich spent his Harvard years breaking up a grape boycott led by farmworkers unions. Around the same time, his family's…
Surprise! The think-tanker using quotes from a Swedish labor leader to denigrate American unions isn't actually supportive of implementing the pro-labor policies necessary to achieve Nordic-style union power https://t.co/jfqdBcmmao
RT @KateAronoff: Wrote about the climate-induced insurance crisis that Hurricane Helene crashed into, and alternatives to leaving so much o…