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Right-wing court-whisperers are pushing SCOTUS to allow states to ban abortions even in cases of severe medical emergencies.

Right-wing groups linked to Charles Koch and Leonard Leo are backing Starbucks’ assault on the National Labor Relations Board.

An unholy coalition of right-wingers and California Democrats wants the Supreme Court to eviscerate the rights of homeless people.

The SCOTUS Justices’ billionaire benefactors have an oft-overlooked means of peddling influence: amicus briefs.

Today, Take Back the Court, Revolving Door Project, and True North Research released a new database highlighting the troubling connections between the Supreme Court’s right-wing justices, the right-wing organizations that have weighed in on cases before the court, and the major donors funding them

RDP Senior Researcher Kenny Stancil joined Arnie Arnesen to discuss a pair of co-authored pieces on the escalating climate-insurance-housing crisis.

The NAIC exists primarily to stave off federal regulation while setting the lowest possible bar for state regulators, who are often captured by industry interests.

The scandal-plagued software company has hired a trio of Capitol Hill insiders to fend off regulatory scrutiny from Congress.

Amid a crisis for homeowners, Democrats have done little while Republicans pursue an agenda of bailouts and deregulation.

Today the Revolving Door Project and Fight For The Future released Congressional Appropriators & Big Tech, a special report detailing financial ties, revolving door moves, and other conflicts of interest between congressional appropriators (and their staff) and monopolistic companies like the Big Tech giants.

Coverage of presidential elections typically hones in on contestants’ competing legislative visions, which in truth, tend to morph considerably when hit by the reality of an intransigent Congress. This prompts an important question: are presidential elections overrated? Well, before drawing that conclusion, consider one of the underrated consequences of a federal election: the potential for a new administration to alter the management of the federal workforce and the operations of individual departments within the executive branch. Although journalists eschew reporting of these consequences in favor of (legislatively focused) policy platforms and rallies, there is a wide body of academic research which investigates the impact of presidential administrations on the federal executive branch’s ability and capacity to fulfill its roles and responsibilities.