The media’s focus on waste misses key context, and ignores the stunning success of the lockdown-era welfare state.
Revolving Door Project
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Coming Storm of Fiscal Policy
How Democrats created a worse debt ceiling situation in 2025
Posted inPolitics
How to Cover a Presidential Campaign
Hollowing out government capacity and leveraging executive power to harm political enemies is at the heart of the Trump-DeSantis project. Will we hear about that?
Posted inWorking in America
Will Dem PR Flacks Help Studios Crush Striking Writers Again?
How two ‘Masters of Disaster’ helped Hollywood execs break the last writers strike
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Fed, the Supreme Court, and Their Legitimacy
The government’s least democratic branches are incompetent and corrupt because they are unaccountable. James Madison would not be surprised…
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Clean-Power Group Supports Dirty Energy
The American Clean Power Association has endorsed fossil fuel initiatives and their allies in Washington.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Exxon’s Unethical Supreme Court Play
Oil company lawyers are pushing Justice Alito to indirectly decide cases he should recuse himself from.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Potential U.S. Attorney Nominee Has Demonstrated Disregard for Constitutional Rights
If Keva Landrum were chosen, it would serve as yet another example of the Biden administration betraying its promises to reform the criminal legal system.
Posted inLaw and Justice
If the Law Is Legitimate, Clarence Thomas Must Stand Trial
The Supreme Court justice repeatedly broke the law for two decades. But do the laws even apply to the leaders on our judicial branch?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Chickenshit Club, Climate Edition
Government lawyers would rather approve 30 years of Arctic drilling than lose in court.