Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
Maureen Tkacik
Maureen Tkacik is investigations editor at the Prospect and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela
How Juan Guaidó sucked a weary nation dry, and primed it for the current U.S.-led assault
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Obamacare Boiler Room
Perhaps no Florida health care scam has so concisely illustrated the burning need to rethink our broken health care system.
Posted inHousing
The Lost Dream of Obam-a-Lago
Long before the September 30 ICE raid, Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood had been ravaged by a series of sprawling apartment building pump-and-dump schemes, aided and abetted by industrial-scale mortgage fraud, old-fashioned government inaction, and a smattering of Venezuelan gangsters.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Brown Stage Capitalism
Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” in 2022, though it was hardly a new phenomenon even then. In granting apps the right to wield the absurdities of intellectual property law to legally bully their users, the government emboldened tech founders to view their companies as exempt from laws and regulations.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Sugar Daddies
From the Havemeyer Sugar Trust to Allen Dulles to Jeffrey Epstein, the MAGA billionaire Fanjul family are the welfare barons of all time.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Foot Soldiers of the Trump Mafiacracy
Pam Bondi’s underling in Nevada allowed an Israeli caught in an underage sex sting operation to return home. Her biggest campaign donors also once fled to Israel to avoid arrest.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Making America Epstein Again
Trump’s transactional ethics are making the U.S. a refuge for criminals. This mirrors something Israel has done for years.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Meet the Disaster Capitalists Behind Alligator Alcatraz
Incompetent and militarized ‘emergency response’ is on track to be a trillion-dollar industry by the end of Trump’s second term.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Hardly Workin’
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is on life support, and consumer scam complaints are surging as a result. The Trump administration wants to pull the plug.