What The Lever Published This Week:
How Your Life Savings Could Digitally Evaporate
A new banking startup lost track of peoples’ life savings and regulators are at a loss to help get it back.
Freddy Brewster
Forever Chemicals Are Poisoning Your Insurance
As commercial insurers cut PFAS coverage, small businesses and consumers will swallow the cost.
Helen Santoro
License To Drill
Fossil-fueled Democrats want to use unverifiable “certified gas” schemes to undermine one of Biden’s most important climate moves.
Hannah Story Brown
The NBA Is Monetizing A Public Health Crisis
On Lever Time, we look at the big money and big problems tied to the rise of online sports betting.
Arjun Singh
The $220 Billion Medical Debt Problem (With Rep. Ro Khanna)
Rep. Ro Khanna unveils his plan with Bernie Sanders to wipe out more than $200 billion in medical debt.
Arjun Singh
SIROTA’S SIGNALS: America’s Biggest Ponzi Scheme
Plus, a simple fix for clean energy, how to save a half-trillion dollars, and banks repossessing wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs.
David Sirota
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: No More Restroom Roulette
Plus, the money tap opens for a major river, good news about crime rates, ride-share drivers catch a break, and your medical debt gets a clean bill of health.
Jean Yi
The Lever In The News:
- The Young Turks — The online news show dives into our reporting on how New York’s governor took money from auto dealers before blocking landmark congestion reforms.
- Your Call — The Lever’s Arjun Singh appeared on San Francisco public radio station KALW’s call-in show to discuss our podcast episode on credit card debt.
- Your Call — Lois Parshley also appeared on the KALW show to discuss her story on catastrophic landslides.
- The Bittman Project — Mark Bittman’s food publication republished Veronica Riccobene’s story on the real reason why food costs are skyrocketing.
- Hill Heat — The DC-oriented climate newsletter featured Hannah Story Brown’s story on fossil fuel-backed Democrats championing unverifiable “certified gas” schemes.
- The Hustle — The popular daily newsletter showcased The Lever’s reporting on a burgeoning climate threat: landslides.
- Sunday Long Read — For the second week in a row, the anthology of outstanding nonfiction highlighted our work, calling out “Cloudy With A Chance Of Disaster.”
- The Crucial Year / Bill McKibben — Climate activist Bill McKibben also featured our report on landslide risk in Juneau and its implications for communities across the country.
- The Indypendent News Hour — Katya Schwenk appeared on the weekly news program of New York City’s radical newspaper to discuss Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ties to automotive interests.
