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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.
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 20, 2025 | The American Prospect
Why Is a Former Obama Official Attacking the Left on Climate?
“We’ve lost the culture war on climate,” Harvard law professor and former Obama administration adviser Jody Freeman told Politico last Wednesday. The article amounts to a dry eulogy for efforts to combat climate change, with Freeman’s refrain that the climate movement failed to go mainstream in the background. What goes unmentioned: Freeman’s extracurricular work as oil industry whisperer.
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
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.
June 05, 2025
Caring About Corporate Conflicts is Cool
The private sector rewards for public sector experience creates a conflict in which the public good and an employee’s own career prospects may be in tension. Not only does it incentivize public servants to consider the interests of the private sector (and how their decisions as a public servant might impact future employment prospects), but it erodes public confidence in civil servants.
May 30, 2025
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Corruption Calendar Week 19: “We Reject Regulators.” Pardon Me?
This week the Trump administration deepened its wildly corrupt and lucrative crypto grift, sought to further enrich wealthy supporters at the direct expense of working households, and continued to pardon white-collar criminals who don the red MAGA cap.
May 23, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 18: Trump’s Independent Agency Power Grab
This week the Trump administration continued to dedicate itself to tearing down the safeguards that protect Americans from things like dangerous consumer products and predatory sales tactics, all while his officials and donors (often one and the same) enrich themselves.
May 15, 2025 | The American Prospect
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Trump Appointees Are Hijacking the Patent System
The PTAB’s inter partes review (IPR) process was designed to swiftly weed out low-quality patents—the kind that stifle competition, inflate consumer prices, and entrench monopolies. But since Trump and Lutnick’s arrival, a quiet bureaucratic coup at the USPTO has undermined this critical safeguard. Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart has moved to centralize power and gut accountability measures, opening the door to a flood of dubious patents.
May 14, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
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Inside the Age of AI Anxiety
We’re trying something new for you today: a visual exploration of the political and personal consequences of the dawning “age of AI.” Let us know in the comments if you like this approach to storytelling. It was made by a human, so all experimentation, imperfection, and emotion is my own.
May 09, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Week 16: The Grift That Keeps On Giving
This week, the Trump brothers Eric and Don Jr. embarked on a world tour to make real estate deals while the administration used the threat of tariffs to push Starlink into other countries. Trump allies engaged in price fixing and fraud were given a pass seemingly as a reward for their donations to the president, our retirement savings were placed under the eye of a greedy insurance executive, and consumer protections were targeted by House Republicans eager to find tax breaks for the rich.
May 07, 2025 | The American Prospect
Senior Advisor McHenry at Your Crypto Service
The former congressman is the most employed man in D.C.
April 28, 2025
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Omeed Malik
An overview of Trump family ally, fundraiser, and business partner Omeed Malik. Malik was appointed to the board of Fannie Mae.
April 09, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Trump’s FAA Nominee Led Republic Airways In Fighting Unions, Safety Regulations
FAA nominee Bryan Bedford’s revolving door path creates a shocking conflict of interest.
March 25, 2025 | The American Prospect
Paul, Weiss Appeased Trump. More Attacks on BigLaw Will Follow.
Fascists respond to capitulation with more aggression. Elon Musk has already started targeting firms himself.