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Money, Politics & Power
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Let’s All Point and Laugh at Elon Musk
Turns out you can’t just buy Texas, even for a quarter billion dollars.
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A Mysterious Nursing Home Money Bomb
The GOP’s three most vociferous hunters of Minnesota Somali fraud received nearly half a million dollars from some of health care’s most notorious figures.
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Mike Rogers’s Wife Runs a Consultancy That Sells Government Access
She got corporations to meet with members of Congress, and cabinet members—for a $100,000 initiation fee. If her husband reaches the Senate, ethics questions could grow.
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The Pentagon Buyout King
Stephen Feinberg moved from private equity giant Cerberus to the Defense Department. The resulting ‘Wall Street playbook,’ critics charge, has led to cronyism and waste.
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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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Will Wall Street Lose on Election Day?
Several pro-bank Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee are in trouble. Crypto’s cash may not break through, either.
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The Democrats Who Let Trump’s Oligarchs Buy Hollywood
The Ellisons enlisted a host of Democratic notables to undercut the proposed merger’s opponents.
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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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Make Trump Pay for Trying to Stamp Out the Postal Service
Oversight Democrats should expose how Trump’s bastardization of USPS has hurt the American people—and present a more reliable alternative.