Revolving Door

Neal Katyal, former Solicitor General under President Obama, has spent his post-public sector career defending any corporation willing to pay his exorbitant hourly rate.

The initial series served as a reminder of the first Trump administration’s utter indifference to the public interest. This time around, the Revolving Door Project will be on hand to provide real time, clear-eyed analyses of the President-elect’s approach towards governance, staffing, ethics and critically, the material impact of his pro-corporate attitudes. 

Some Notes on Centrists Blaming Everyone but Themselves

Today, the Revolving Door Project published a new white paper, “Rebuilding Public Trust: Six Principles to Guide Reform,” which provides a blueprint for strengthening the federal government’s ethics programs across the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

A group funded by fracking firms and pipeline companies is ramping up its efforts to cozy up to key Democratic constituencies in service of a pro-polluter agenda, including a bipartisan bill packed with fossil-fuel giveaways that could be considered in Congress in the coming weeks, according to a new report released today by the Revolving Door Project and Public Citizen.

The deeply intertwined crises of climate change, insurance rate hikes and cancellations, and housing injustice are escalating. State insurance regulators cannot tackle these problems on their own, but their role in aggravating or ameliorating them deserves greater scrutiny.

Now is the time for progressives to weigh in on jobs that don’t require Senate confirmation.

Despite promises to crack down on telecom companies, as FCC Chair Tom Wheeler approved corporate mergers and now continues to profit from the telecom sector.

Populist messaging on holding corporations accountable remains a strong part of the Vice President’s campaign strategy.