LEVER WEEKLY: Pentagon Grifts And Zombie Pipelines

This is Lever Weekly, a recap of our work from the past week. If you only read one email from us all week, this should be it.

What The Lever Published This Week:

LEVER TIME: Amazon Is Eating The Economy

In a landmark lawsuit filed last year by the Federal Trade Commission, the government accuses Amazon of long being engaged in illegal market behavior.

The Lever •Arjun Singh

Climate Change Is Coming For Your Insurance

As financial safety nets collapse, regulators are letting insurers off the hook.

The Lever •Lois Parshley

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.

The Lever •Emily Sanders

The Pentagon’s 30-Year Lobbying Swindle

For decades, corporations have used taxpayer-funded fellowship opportunities to help them secure billion-dollar defense contracts.

The Lever •Freddy Brewster

SIROTA’S SIGNALS: Trump Could Get New Powers — With Dems’ Help

If bipartisan legislation passes and Trump wins, he’ll have new power to punish nonprofits he deems to be “terrorist supporting.”

The Lever •David Sirota

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Flying The Fairer Skies

Plus, employers can no longer stop employees from working for their rivals, and Big Oil loses some of its dominance over public lands nationwide.

The Lever •Katherine Li

The Lever In The News:

• TheAnalysis.News — Katya Schwenk discusses government policies that enabled Boeing’s industry takeover and criminal negligence, as well as similar practices in the shipping industry that potentially played a role in a mega-ship destroying Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. 

• Redacted — Freddy Brewster discusses his reporting on how an entire year’s worth of records on U.S. military operations in the Middle East are missing.

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