The Rise Of Big Oil’s Zombie Pipelines
Big Oil is fighting to limit safety protections to expedite its build-out of experimental carbon dioxide pipelines, endangering nearby communities.
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The Pentagon’s 30-Year Lobbying Swindle
For decades, corporations have used taxpayer-funded fellowship opportunities to help them secure billion-dollar defense contracts.
Democratic Voters Fight The Party Machine
On this week’s bonus episode of Lever Time, Arjun Singh and Democratic strategist Mark Longabaugh explore Democrats’ winter and spring of discontent.
Climate Change Is Coming For Your Insurance
As financial safety nets collapse, regulators are letting insurers off the hook.
LEVER WEEKLY: Affordable Medicine Is Locked Up In The Ivory Tower
From public universities colluding with Big Pharma to Democrats crushing voter choice, here’s all the news from The Lever this week.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Friends Of The Court Could Lose Their Benefits
Plus, a pipeline company is caught trespassing, corporations face heat for shady stock deals, and law enforcement’s pseudoscience doesn’t hold up.
LEVER TIME: Democrats Will Not Tolerate Dissent
As part of a revamped and expanded weekly podcast series, David Sirota explores how the DNC crushed 2024 primary challengers — and might have hurt Biden’s reelection chances.
CEOs Got Raises As They Cut Workers’ Pay
New data show the corporate pay gap is widening — now lawmakers are proposing a crackdown.
SIROTA’S SIGNALS: The Dem States Embracing GOP Anti-Tax Zealotry
Plus, the obscure court circuit trying to repeal the 20th century, how your utility bill funds climate denial, the real reason conservatives oppose student debt relief.
Universities Are Making Billions Gatekeeping Your Meds
The University of California has raked in a previously undisclosed $1.6 billion from Xtandi sales, and now doesn’t want the government lowering exorbitant drug costs.