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Lobbying
September 25, 2020
Steven Higashide
Uber and Lyft Are Charging Through Washington’s Revolving Door
The ride-share firms push regressive labor and transportation policies—and they’re stocked with Obama alumni. Would Biden welcome or blacklist them?
June 12, 2020
Kate Aronoff
One Quick Trick for Curbing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Political Influence
Nationalize them.
May 14, 2020
Audrey Clare Farley
The Nonprofit Grifters Who Want a Cut of the Coronavirus Bailout
After years of undermining health policy to aid their Big Pharma patrons, patient advocacy groups are making claims to federal pandemic relief.
March 24, 2020
Casey Michel
Could Trump Spark a New Balkan Ethnic War?
As the coronavirus racks the globe, White House lackeys and lobbyists are converging on the former Yugoslavia and reopening old wounds.
February 14, 2020
Magazine
Libby Watson
Can Corporate America Get Behind Medicare for All?
One man’s crusade to sell big business on a health care overhaul
November 21, 2019
Libby Watson
The Lucrative Liberal Business of Killing Health Care Reform
New tax filings show what soulless K Street hucksters—including Obama alumni—are willing to do for a buck.
October 15, 2019
Casey Michel
The Law That Could Take Down Rudy Giuliani
It's a genuine mystery how the president's aide-de-camp has avoided Paul Manafort's fate.
May 22, 2019
Tyler Bellstrom
War With Iran Would Benefit the Emirates, Not the U.S.
With legislators and public alike focused on Saudi influence, another Gulf country's lobbying efforts are flying under the radar.
April 12, 2019
Seth Hettena
With Craig Indictment, Mueller Probe Sends Ripples Through the Swamp
A former Clinton and Obama attorney was charged under Foreign Agents law for work done with convicted Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort on behalf of Ukraine.
March 25, 2019
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Sarah Posner
Right Makes Might
Long before Trump came on the scene, key congressional Republicans had been sidling up to nativist and authoritarian leaders across the globe.
February 15, 2019
Ben Ehrenreich
This Is What the Beginning of a Real Israel Debate Looks Like
Before Ilhan Omar came to the national stage, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer tried to discuss pro-Israel lobbying. They were shouted down.
June 28, 2018
Alexander Zaitchik
How Big Pharma Was Captured by the One Percent
The industry's price-gouging economic model was engineered by Wall Street and its political enablers—and only Washington can fix it.
August 22, 2017
David Dayen
The CEOs Won’t Save Us
Why do we keep falling for the myth that business leaders are the moral pillars of America?
June 19, 2017
Emily Atkin
Scott Pruitt’s likely new deputy at the EPA is a pro-coal swamp creature.
July 27, 2016
David Dayen
The DNC Is One Big Corporate Bribe
Drink up—it's on us! Then go protest the TPP to your heart’s content.
April 1, 2014
Danny Vinik
Mitch McConnell Hates Increasing the Deficit—Except When It Benefits Corporations
May 10, 2013
Brooke Williams
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Ken Silverstein
Meet the Think Tank Scholars who are also Beltway Lobbyists
Why D.C.'s policy shops need to be transparent about who else is paying their scholars
April 26, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Too Hot for K Street?
Africa's first "narco-state" loses its fancy D.C. lobbying firm—but not for the obvious reason
March 6, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Don’t Fear the Reaper
Two days with the extremely anxious drone lobby
August 29, 1955
Robert Engler
When Big Oil Was "The Great Vampire Squid" Wrapped Around America
Robert Engler's award-winning 1955 investigation into the oil industry
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