Tech companies are reaching out to small businesses that rely on them, to try to whip up grassroots opposition to legislation that weakens their power.
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Rick Caruso’s Potemkin Campaign
The mall developer has spent over $30 million to buy the mayor’s seat in Los Angeles. But his policies and messaging are as fake as his shopping centers.
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Multimillion-Dollar Game
He is spending prodigious amounts on lobbying and elections to ensure that crypto is lightly regulated in the future.
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Clock Ticking on Big Tech Accountability Bills
The industry, and a couple of nervous Democrats, want to keep the legislation forever off the Senate calendar. Chuck Schumer is the key decision-maker.
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Biden’s Main Legislative Accomplishment Is in One Man’s Hands
Mitch Landrieu is overseeing the bipartisan infrastructure law. His record does not inspire confidence in how that might be handled.
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Three More Senators Violated the STOCK Act
At least two more Democrats and a Republican senator failed to report stock transactions last year as a ban on congressional stock trading flounders in a Senate working group.
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Heidi Heitkamp Lobbies Against a Democratic FCC
The former Democratic senator is running misleading ads claiming that FCC nominee Gigi Sohn would be bad for rural America.
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The Giant Pandemic Pool of Money
A new book details the penny-ante crooks extracting federal cash during COVID, and the disastrous budget decisions that gave them the opportunity.
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Rollups: Monopoly on Tap
Reyes is the largest beer distributor in America, and rivals allege that it has used ‘strong-arm tactics’ to achieve dominance in California.
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Blowing the Truck Whistle
A carbon dioxide delivery driver’s long journey to expose issues that he says put his safety and integrity at risk
