Laws are just wishes without enforcement.
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.
He can be reached on Signal at ddayen.90.
Posted inPolitics
Big Money Is Back
The 2026 primaries will likely see even bigger levels of corporate and issue-based PAC spending. But there may be diminishing returns on these investments.
Posted inSports
Behind the Bleachers
The business of sports looks a lot like the rest of our unequal, excessively financialized economy.
Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: The Monopolists Who Gatekeep the Court System
If you want to read the laws that govern, you have to pay a steep price. Break a duopoly and this can be changed.
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.