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Presidential Power Map

The Presidential Powermap classifies bundlers and major donors by their professional and sectoral affiliations to offer the most possible clues about the composition of a presidential candidate’s hypothetical administration.

Federal Understaffing Spotlight

The Revolving Door Project is tracking federal understaffing across agencies — from HUD to the IRS — and examining what cuts under Trump could mean for public services.

Trump 2.0: Tracking Material Impact

Throughout the course of the Trump presidency, the Revolving Door Project plans to provide real time, clear-eyed analyses of the President’s approach towards governance, staffing, ethics and critically, the material impact of his pro-corporate attitudes. As we outlined in our retrospective memos on the first Trump administration, the President and his cast of conflicted appointees routinely flout ethics and laws, prioritizing corporate interests while endangering the health, safety and wellbeing of the American people.

Trope Tracker

Economics seems complicated. There’s lots of jargon, tons of different statistics and metrics, and plenty of haughty analysts who belittle anyone who disagrees with them. All of this makes it difficult for the average news consumer to really understand economic news. But it gets even harder when journalists, knowingly or not, deploy misleading storytelling devices or invoke logical fallacies in their reporting.