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April 03, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Who’s Afraid of the “Deep State”?
Show me a politician rabble-rousing about “unelected bureaucrats” running the country, and I’ll show you someone who wants those bureaucrats to be serving their interests, not the country’s. Show me a company crying foul about government overreach, and I’ll show you a company trying to get away with—in some cases, literally—murder.
April 02, 2024
PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil Talks IRS Whistleblower On Arnie Arnesen Attitude
RDP Senior Researcher Kenny Stancil joined Arnie Arnesen to discuss why Biden should pardon IRS whistleblower Charles Littlejohn.
March 29, 2024 | The American Prospect
Senators’ Latest Attempt to Enrich Big Pharma Must Not Prevail
The patent system exists to promote scientific innovation to benefit the public, not to enrich private interests regardless of the merits of their scientific contributions. Yet that is precisely what PERA and PREVAIL would do by granting Big Pharma even more sweeping government monopolies and associated price-gouging power.
March 29, 2024
Furman’s Frustration
He’s Mad That Robert Rubin’s Gang No Longer Reigns Supreme
March 27, 2024
A Win For PFAS And A Loss For The IRS
We focus on the under the radar impacts of corporate control of the Fifth Circuit and Congressional Republicans.
March 27, 2024 | Jacobin
Jerome Powell’s Fingerprints Are on the Next Banking Crisis
One year after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is obstructing the finalization of tougher capital requirements for banks — and increasing the chances of more turbulence.
March 26, 2024
Amicus Spotlight: FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine
Right-wing groups, including several linked to court-whisperers Leonard Leo and Charles Koch, are urging SCOTUS to ban the abortion medication mifepristone.
March 26, 2024
Take the Input of Polluting Liars for What it is Worth (Nothing)
The Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in the process of finalizing its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles. The standard is a little known, but massively important, part of the process necessary to push industrial progression toward a cleaner future.
March 25, 2024 | Slate
Why Biden Should Pardon the IRS Whistleblower Who Leaked Trump’s Taxes
Biden can make billionaire corruption a defining issue of the 2024 presidential race.
March 22, 2024
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Bad-Faith Criticism of Biden’s Budget Proposal
The organization that claims to champion deficit reduction actually wants to cut your Social Security.
March 22, 2024
Crypto Is Hoping You Won’t Notice Their Redoubled Influence Campaign
The media has done a good job highlighting the cryptocurrency industry’s continued attempts to influence elections but crypto’s hiring of political insiders continues to go unnoticed.
March 21, 2024
RealPage Enlists Ex-FTC Revolvers From BigLaw Firm Gibson Dunn To Fight Tenant Lawsuits
Facing an existential legal threat, the scandal-plagued software company has hired price-fixing monopolists’ favorite lawyers.
March 20, 2024
The Next Frontier Of Corporate Polluting: Hydrogen
The corporate polluters are at it again with a new push for “clean energy”—and against government safeguards to ensure that it’s clean.
March 18, 2024
RELEASE: Virginia General Assembly Must Investigate Leonard Leo’s Influence On State’s Largest Public Research University
Today, the Revolving Door Project, Take Back the Court Action Fund, People’s Parity Project, Freedom BLOC and the George Mason University chapter of the American Association of University Professors sent a letter to members of the Virginia General Assembly calling on them to investigate Leonard Leo in regard to his undue influence on George Mason University. The groups called on the state legislature to investigate what Leo-tied activities are taking place under the aegis of a state school.
March 18, 2024
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Touch
A quick roundup of some pundits striking out from their ivory towers to completely and utterly miss the point.