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July 27, 2025
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Molly Osberg
Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed
Financiers have bamboozled the public for years about their expertise in “fixing” companies. Yet they often—and sometimes deliberately—run them into the ground.
June 26, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Ugly Phone Scam Has Already Hit Some Major Snags
Donald Trump’s new mobile phone company is already backing down on some of its biggest promises.
June 25, 2025
Kate Aronoff
UPS Drivers Are Battling Deadly Heat—Without A.C. in Their Trucks
Why is the company dragging its heels on updating the vehicles, as the new union contract requires?
June 16, 2025
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Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
Inside the Predatory World of Multilevel Marketing
Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both?
June 12, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Brazenly Admits His Immigration Crackdown Is Hurting Farmers
Donald Trump knows exactly what he’s doing.
May 29, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Elon Musk Tried to Sabotage a Trump Deal With a Rival Company
Elon Musk blatantly used his proximity to Donald Trump to boost his own businesses.
May 27, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Adviser Flails When Asked About Effect of Tariffs on iPhones
Kevin Hassett failed a key question about tariff pricing.
May 27, 2025
Alyssa Schukar
Tough Work, Tight Margins: How Cattle Branding Is Evolving in Nebraska
The population is shrinking, and the heifers just keep getting bigger. So the Burdick Ranch relies on neighbor volunteers and high school wrestlers to get the job done.
May 25, 2025
Joe Cirincione
Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer
For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.
May 23, 2025
Liza Featherstone
Trump Isn’t the Godsend That Fishermen Had Hoped For
Many in the fishing industry were eager to put Trump back in the White House. But the president and Elon Musk’s DOGE have unleashed havoc and confusion.
May 21, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Marco Rubio Has Bonkers Defense for Trump Profiting Off Presidency
Apparently, Donald Trump’s shady business deals are no issue to Rubio.
May 20, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Elon Musk Crashes Out When Asked About South Africa Starlink Deal
South Africa is bending its own rules for Trump adviser Elon Musk.
May 19, 2025
Edith Olmsted
MAGA Senator Threatens Walmart for Responding to Trump’s Tariffs
Walmart warned that Donald Trump’s tariffs would cause prices to increase.
May 15, 2025
Edith Olmsted
How Elon Musk Used State Department to Force Starlink on a Country
Elon Musk is turning the U.S. government into his personal P.R. firm.
May 14, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Mike Johnson Has Bonkers Defense of Trump’s Open Corruption
Apparently, Mike Johnson thinks there is a right way to be corrupt.
May 13, 2025
Alex Shephard
America Has Never Seen a President This Corrupt
Trump’s brazen use of the White House to advance his family businesses should be one of the biggest scandals in the country’s history.
May 12, 2025
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Alexander Zaitchik
A Devastating New Exposé of Johnson & Johnson Indicts an Entire System
An investigative history of the scandal-plagued company shines a light on a health care industry riddled with corruption and criminality.
May 9, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Karoline Leavitt Snaps When Asked About Trump Profiting Off Presidency
Donald Trump is using various schemes to line his pockets while in the White House.
May 9, 2025
Michael Tomasky
You Won’t Believe How Much Richer the Trumps Have Gotten This Year
How in the hell does he get away with this? Here’s the answer.
May 9, 2025
Ross Rosenfeld
Here’s the Deranged MAGA Propaganda Coming to Voice of America
Kari Lake announced a deal to feed content from One America News, the pro-Trump network, to the government-funded international news outlet. It won’t cost anything—except the truth.
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