Inside the Kansas senator’s multilayered relationship with one of the most audacious profiteers in rural health.
Maureen Tkacik
Maureen Tkacik is investigations editor at the Prospect and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project.
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Roger Marshall Boosted Pesticide Products His Wife Is Invested In
The Kansas senator introduced bills supporting biological pesticides, which would benefit companies owned by his private equity donor and friend Dan Tasset. Marshall’s wife also has a piece of the action.
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The KC Mafia
Behind Trump’s private equity–style bust-out of the Kennedy Center, a pack of billionaires and MAGA grifters have planned bigger heists, from Hollywood to Western Sahara.
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Crude Awakening
A reviled ‘boligarch’ and his right-wing adversaries are engaged in a low-level war, but the only people who will feel the impact are the Venezuelan people.
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Macklemore vs. Everybody
The wokest rapper took on the NFL’s plutocratic ownership, the Israel lobby, and the Live Nation ‘flywheel’—and won.
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Max Miller’s Endless Wars
The Ohio congressman fabricated a wild story of death threats on Interstate 90 and casually destroyed the life of a constituent. It’s one of many accusations Miller, now facing a spousal abuse scandal, has made throughout his career.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Dorothy Day: Saint Radical
The incredible life and times of the Catholic who served the poor and gave hell to everyone else
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Hot Centrist Summer Was a Bust
Billionaire donors went hard in July to sell mainstream Dems on their diet MAGA vision for the party. Now they are back on the defensive.
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The Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls Behind Trump’s Potemkin Gas Stations
How can Freedom Fuel afford to sell gas for $3.47 a gallon? That’s the wrong question to ask.
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Onward Christian Soldier
Victor Marx, who may become the Republican nominee for governor of Colorado today, depicts himself as a karate-chopping, children-saving, hardcore pastor. None of it is reliable.