Enersystems, Joe Manchin’s family coal company, has contracts with the only power plant in West Virginia that burns coal from reclaimed mine projects.
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Why We Must Monitor the Sale of Surveillance Tech
Learning about the Pentagon’s drone program through FOIA requests and public filings
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Congress’s Latest Giveaway to Weapons Makers
While 7.5 million workers lose unemployment, members of Congress want to bail out the military industry.
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Funding From Amazon Sunders a Worker-Consumer Alliance
Union leaders quit the board of the National Consumers League in protest.
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The Investigator: Sen. Carl Levin (1934–2021)
The anti-kleptocracy campaigns of the Michigan lawmaker were ahead of their time.
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Corporate Lobbyists Seek ‘Grassroots’ Support for Forced Arbitration
Emails reveal a conservative tactic to promote forced arbitration in Arizona: offer $2,000 to sign a local newspaper op-ed.
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Altercation: Who’s More Dangerous? Murdoch or Zuckerberg?
Two public-health (and democracy-health) menaces duke it out.
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The DCCC’s Top Bundler Is an Oil Lobbyist
Zachary Pfister goes to bat for the American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s most powerful lobbying group.
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It’s Big Business as Usual for Biden’s Ambassadorship Picks
A Comcast lobbyist is the latest to snag a top diplomatic post.
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What Does Peter Thiel Want?
Inside the conservative tech investor’s play for the Senate
