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4/23/2024
11 : 34
The Pentagon’s 30-Year Lobbying Swindle
For decades, corporations have used taxpayer-funded fellowship opportunities to help them secure billion-dollar defense contracts. For decades, the Defense Department has used taxpayer money to send
4/22/2024
11 : 34
Climate Change Is Coming For Your Insurance
As financial safety nets collapse, regulators are letting insurers off the hook. As the climate crisis wreaks havoc across the country, what happens when communities become uninsurable? In honor of
4/21/2024
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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. LEVER WEEKLY: Affordable Medicine Is Locked Up In The Ivory
4/20/2024
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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. YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Friends Of The Court Could
4/19/2024
11 : 34
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. LEVER TIME: Democrats
4/18/2024
11 : 34
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. SIROTA'S SIGNALS: The Dem
4/17/2024
11 : 34
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. The University of California
4/16/2024
17 : 34
Handing Taxpayers The Climate Cleanup Bill
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic legislative leaders nix a landmark proposal that would have made Hochul's fossil fuel donors pay for their pollution. New York had a chance to make Big Oil
4/15/2024
11 : 34
The Defense Industry’s Inside Man In The Pacific Arms Race
A Biden envoy shaped defense policy in the Pacific islands while consulting for a private firm with major interests in the region. When a Biden envoy negotiated new, far-reaching agreements with the
4/14/2024
13 : 4
LEVER WEEKLY: Bad Water
From private equity groups hollowing out nursing homes to Pfizer's bold tax-free year, here's all the news from The Lever this week. LEVER WEEKLY: Bad Water By The Lever • 14 Apr 2024 View in
4/13/2024
13 : 4
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Protecting The Youngest Workers
Plus, signs of hope emerge in the WikiLeaks case, retirement savings land in better hands, the power grid gets more reliable, and transgender people could score safer workplaces. YOU LOVE TO SEE IT:
4/13/2024
8 : 24
Exxon Declares War On Its Dissenters
The fossil fuel giant is suing investors to intimidate them from ever trying to influence corporate decisions. ExxonMobil recently launched an unprecedented lawsuit against two investment firms that
4/13/2024
8 : 14
SIROTA’S SIGNALS: Ted Cruz Is A Corruption Cartoon
Plus, JPMorgan screams the quiet part about health care, Larry Hogan feels the heat from The Lever, and SCOTUS gets even more corporate. SIROTA'S SIGNALS: Ted Cruz Is A Corruption Cartoon By David
4/13/2024
7 : 56
Pfizer’s Massive Tax Dodge
The pharma giant previously received billions in federal funding and raked in huge profits, but owes nothing in 2023 income taxes thanks to legal loopholes and Trump-era tax cuts. As Americans scramble
4/9/2024
19 : 24
A Water Wrongdoer’s Revenge
A California lawmaker wants to dismantle the Clean Water Act protections that he was fined for violating. After being fined more than a million dollars for damaging protected wetlands on his massive
4/8/2024
11 : 34
Where Nursing Homes Hide Their Profits
While industry leaders plead poverty to fight a proposed staffing standard, private equity owners are funneling cash into their affiliated real estate and management firms. As regulators attempt to
4/7/2024
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LEVER WEEKLY: Why Are Biden’s Economic Poll Numbers So Bad?
Economic policy has been erased from the political discourse, which is a problem for Biden — and for democracy. LEVER WEEKLY: Why Are Biden's Economic Poll Numbers So Bad? By David Sirota • 7 Apr
4/6/2024
13 : 4
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Freight Trains Score Safety In Stereo
Plus, Maui fire survivors score vital aid, Amazon is forced to embrace its employees, and Congressional winds shift against corporate mergers. YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Freight Trains Score Safety In Stereo
4/5/2024
11 : 34
The New War Over Generic Drugs
Why are generic drugmakers fighting a plan to let them make more medicines? Why is the generic drug industry suddenly fighting an initiative to allow for more lower-priced generic drugs? As Helen
4/4/2024
19 : 14
SIROTA’S SIGNALS: Cheeseburgers vs. Water
Plus, a single graph explains Boeing's crisis, Apple tries to censor its regulator, and Wall Street data debunks the GOP's anti-ESG crusade. SIROTA'S SIGNALS: Cheeseburgers vs. Water By