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December 18, 2025 | The American Prospect

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Op-Ed Ethics in GovernmentFinancial RegulationRevolving Door

Another Biden Financial Regulator Spins Through the Revolving Door

It’s hard times at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the three principal bank regulators in the country, along with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve. All three, plus other financial institution regulators at the National Credit Union Administration and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, have been gutted to varying degrees over the first year of Trump 2.0.

November 07, 2025 | The American Prospect

Hannah Story Brown

Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentEthics in GovernmentSupreme Court

Exxon’s Latest Supreme Court Hail Mary

It’s been seven years since Boulder, Colorado, took oil companies Exxon and Suncor to court for decades of lying about the dangers of their products, one of dozens of parallel lawsuits brought by local, state, and tribal governments against fossil fuel companies. In May, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the case could move toward discovery and trial, something the companies are desperate to avoid. Now, Exxon and Suncor are once again seeking refuge at the Supreme Court.

October 08, 2025 | The Sling

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

Op-Ed Anti-MonopolyClimate and EnvironmentEconomic MediaEconomic Policy

The Hollowness of Growth as an Objective

Growth is responsible for the widely shared prosperity ushered in across much of the world in the twentieth century, leading to declines in infant mortality, longer life expectancy, and some of the best standards of living in human history. But growth has also driven mass deforestation, soaring income inequality, and the erosion of democracy as power became increasingly concentrated. When a handful of companies control local television stations, it’s easier for a president with authoritarian tendencies to punish his perceived enemies. Acknowledging that duality and seeking balance is different than monomaniacally pursuing economic growth or degrowth.