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David Dayen
David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud. He co-hosts the podcast Organized Money with Matt Stoller.
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Posted inPolitics
Democrats Determined to Squander Advantage on DHS Funding
Democrats are succeeding in getting a showdown on new rules for immigration enforcement. But will those rules amount to anything?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Minnesota CEOs Cry Crocodile Tears Over ICE
Executives who lobbied for Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which enabled the immigration terror in their state, now want everyone to believe they are on the people’s side.
Posted inPolitics
Senate Talks on DHS Funding Paralyzed
Republicans are trying to bargain with other options rather than change their DHS funding bill.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Republican Expressions of Concern Already Turning Back Around
All the Trump administration had to do was send Tom Homan to Minnesota.
Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: The New Frontier in Price Discrimination
We talk to Lindsay Owens about Google’s plan to turn its Gemini AI into your personal shopping assistant.
Posted inPolitics
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
Posted inPolitics
It’s So Cute How You Write Laws and Stuff
The latest attempt to ‘rein in’ ICE in a government funding bill doesn’t really even work on its own terms.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Wall Street Strikes Back
The crypto industry found out that they can buy a lot, but they can’t buy all the power away from the big banks.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
What a People-Powered Movement Looks Like
The bravery of citizens in Minneapolis is the only kind of resistance to occupation that has a chance of working.