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January 29, 2026
What We Mean When We Talk About Corporate Power
How should we define corporate power, and how should we attempt to understand its growth over time? Here’s some metrics.
December 15, 2025
TRACKER: Cuts to Corporate Enforcement Capacity
This tracker records cuts made by the Trump-Musk administration to enforcement capacity at agencies responsible for overseeing corporations’ activities and identifying wrongdoing.
“Enforcement capacity” refers to staffing and funding dedicated to monitoring, oversight, investigation, and preparation of cases against corporations for breaking the law. Cuts to and attacks on enforcement capacity can include firings, buyout offers, funding cuts, reorganizations, and other steps the Trump administration has taken to date.
November 19, 2025 | The American Prospect
Henry Burke Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
Op-Ed Economic MediaFintechLarry SummersMedia AccountabilityRevolving Door
Companies Are Trying to Hide Their Ties to Larry Summers
Some fintech and energy startups haven’t announced that Summers is leaving; they just took him off their websites.
October 17, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Newsletter Climate and EnvironmentCorruption CalendarEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchRevolving Door
Corruption Calendar Weeks 38-39: Your Wish, My Command
Big Oil is getting the white glove treatment, the Trump sons are cashing in on the White House and the shutdown threatens housing stability.
September 15, 2025
CNN Allows Sinema Skate Through Recent Tapper Segment
CNN and Jake Tapper invited former Senator Kyrsten Sinema on to discuss crypto and AI. He failed to disclose her conflicts of interest
September 04, 2025
Who is Behind the Growing Abundance Movement?
Who is behind the fast-growing abundance movement? Who are the billionaires and media figures helping it gain popularity?
August 26, 2025
Kenny Stancil Hannah Story Brown Henry Burke
Press ReleaseReport AbundanceAnti-MonopolyClimate and EnvironmentHousingTech
Revolving Door Project, Open Markets Institute Release Report on Abundance Agenda
This report sets out to excavate the proposed policy prescriptions of the broader abundance movement, and thoroughly address their flaws.
August 20, 2025 | The American Prospect
Henry Burke Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
Op-Ed Anti-MonopolyEconomic MediaEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationFintechTech
What Trump Learned From Silicon Valley
Before DOGE’s lawbreaking spree, there was ‘blitzscaling.’
August 07, 2025
Uber Wrong
In his latest broadside against the left, Mattew Yglesias took aim at longtime critics of Uber’s blatant lawbreaking. In Yglesias’s view, these critics who range from anti-monopoly voices like Lina Khan to anti-corruption experts like our own Jeff Hauser and academics focused on financial regulation like Professor Hillary Allen, constitute a coterie of economics-hating zealots eager to make people’s lives worse.
July 30, 2025
Harvard’s Former President Praises Trump’s Repression of Academic Freedom
Larry Summers has embraced Trump’s war on higher ed, backing the fascist takeover of Columbia and proposing the same thing for Harvard
July 02, 2025
Abundance Praise for Trump Appointees
Abundance supporters were big backers of Trump appointees including Chris Wright, Doug Burgum and Jay Bhattacharya. Now that the Trump administration has (predictably) engaged in blatantly destructive actions, they’re hoping you’ll forget their earlier support of these Trump toadies.
June 26, 2025
Man Who Crashed The Economy, Called For Further Recessions Warns Potential Socialist Governance Will Lead To Economic Devastation.
Larry Summers is up in arms over Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York Mayoral Primary, worried that Mamdani’s “Trotskyite economic policies” will crash the economy.
June 18, 2025
How Crypto Is Buying DC One Revolver At A Time
How the cryptocurrency industry bought influence at the highest levels of government, one payoff at a time
June 11, 2025 | Citations Needed
Interview AbundanceAnti-MonopolyArtificial IntelligenceClimate and EnvironmentEconomic MediaEconomic PolicyGovernment CapacityMatt Yglesias
PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil and Henry Burke Discuss "Abundance" as Counter to Left Populism on Citations Needed
Revolving Door Project senior researchers Kenny Stancil and Henry Burke joined Citations Needed to talk about the so-called Abundance agenda, including how it’s being promoted as an alternative to a downwardly redistributive economic populism.
June 11, 2025
The Abundance Mask Slips at WelcomeFest
A quick list of WelcomeFest’s most interesting moments, speakers and takeaways. Abundance Coachella really lived up to the hype.