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10/20/2024
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Not So Fast, Fashion
The Feds make pills easier to swallow, Oregon clamps down on natural gas, rural hospitals are popping up, and fast fashion is told to slow down. Not So Fast, Fashion By Sam Pollak • 19 Oct 2024 View in
10/8/2024
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Master Plan, Ep. 8: Shock And Awe At The Supreme Court
In a pivotal 12 months, the master planners transformed the judiciary, positioning it to deliver corruption-legalizing precedents. While President George W. Bush stood on the deck of an aircraft
10/7/2024
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The Corporate Corruption Behind Hurricane Helene
In the South, residents are suffering from the fallout of two disasters — recent Lever reporting shows how corporate meddling and regulatory failures made both of them worse. Millions in the
10/6/2024
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So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
A fish story, a perfect storm, a toxic loophole, and more from The Lever this week. So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish By The Lever • 6 Oct 2024 View in browser View in browser (Rockdale County
10/5/2024
11 : 44
Swiping At Swiping Monopolies
The Feds take on Big Credit Card and take aim at big, bad junk fees, regulators strike again at a fossil fuel company's poisonous machinery, and voter suppression gets suppressed. Swiping At
10/4/2024
11 : 44
The Toxic Loophole Behind A Chemical Plant Disaster
In the years before the catastrophic BioLab chemical fire this week, chemical industry lobbyists fought to ensure disaster-prevention rules didn't cover such facilities. A year before a Georgia
10/3/2024
11 : 44
Before Hurricane Helene, A Perfect Storm Of Climate Denialism
North Carolina was once a climate leader, but more than a decade of Republican and corporate obstruction left the state ill-prepared for the historic disaster. North Carolina was once a leader in
10/1/2024
10 : 4
MASTER PLAN Episode 7: The Federalist Society Strikes Back
To get the rulings you want, build the Supreme Court you need. In the 1990s and 2000s, a series of court rulings spotlighted the trend of Republican-appointed justices periodically siding with liberals
9/30/2024
11 : 44
Deadly Harvest: The Hidden Costs Of Your Filet-O-Fish
In one of the world's most valuable fisheries, regulators with conflicts of interest are letting corporations off the hook. The pollock that goes into Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, school-lunch fish
9/29/2024
11 : 34
LEVER WEEKLY: We're Looking For An Inside Man In Finance
Wall Street wants to regulate itself, and more from The Lever this week. LEVER WEEKLY: We're Looking For An Inside Man In Finance By The Lever • 29 Sept 2024 View in browser View in browser (AP
9/28/2024
11 : 44
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Good Regulators Come For Bad Medicine
Antimonopolists are coming for meddling drug middlemen and lousy landlords, the tide turns on overdoses, and carbon goes under the sea. YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Good Regulators Come For Bad Medicine By Lucy
9/27/2024
20 : 4
MASTER PLAN BONUS: The Other Memo
Lever Time producer Arjun Singh and investigative journalist David Daley discuss the other memo behind the conservative takeover of the courts. In this exclusive MASTER PLAN bonus episode, Lever Time
9/27/2024
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Is Harris’ Big Tent About To Burst?
Kamala Harris has built a coalition spanning from Dick Cheney to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — but is that setting her up for a rudderless presidency? Vice President Kamala Harris has built a broad
9/26/2024
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One way to fight back.
Your personal data being made public can lead to identity theft, fraud, and phishing attacks. Imagine waking up to discover that your private information has become available online for the world to
9/26/2024
11 : 34
“The recording is the smoking gun”
The inside story of how we uncovered smoking-gun audio exposing the secret roots of Project 2025. In every major investigation, there's a story behind the story. Denver's alt-weekly Westword
9/25/2024
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To Stop “Woke” Investing, Companies Want Taxpayer-Funded Lobbyists
Two new anti-ESG bills would install corporate lobbyists within the SEC and hamper shareholders and local governments. In their latest attack on “woke” investing, corporate-backed Republicans are
9/24/2024
11 : 44
MASTER PLAN, Ep 6: The Maverick Vs. The Corruption Machine
After John McCain got caught up in a corruption scheme, he went to war with his own party to try to make sure it could never happen again. In the 1980s, the US government was anything but clean. After
9/23/2024
11 : 44
Rise Of The Insurance Apocalypse
How climate change is breaking down the global safety net for handling life's risks. The story below on how climate change is destroying the global insurance safety net, written by Lois Parshley
9/22/2024
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LEVER WEEKLY: Dark Money Then, Dark Money Now
Secret unlimited election spending is on the rise everywhere you look, and more from The Lever this week. LEVER WEEKLY: Dark Money Then, Dark Money Now By The Lever • 22 Sept 2024 View in browser View
9/21/2024
12 : 14
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: A School Lending Bully Gets Expelled
Plus, the hearing-aid cartel gets muted, the country's busiest streets are going fossil-free, and interest rates sink while spirits rise. YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: A School Lending Bully Gets Expelled By