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July 1, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Surprise! Trump’s New Fragrance Sucks
Donald Trump’s newest scam stinks (literally) of desperation.
June 16, 2025
Magazine
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
Inside the Predatory World of Multilevel Marketing
Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both?
April 22, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Stephen Miller Unveils Bizarre New Attack on Birthright Citizenship
Stephen Miller has found a new excuse to ignore the Constitution.
March 28, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Pardons One of the Car Industry’s Biggest Scammers—Just in Time
Donald Trump has decided to save Nikola founder Trevor Milton.
March 7, 2025
Kate Aronoff
It’s Kind of Fitting That Musk Now Wants to Cook the Books on GDP
With each passing day, this White House seems to have more in common with its crypto-scammer allies.
February 28, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
AOC Perfectly Sums Up Everyone’s Mood: Everything Feels “Like a Scam”
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sat down for an interview with NPR, where she talked about her frustrations with the current moment.
January 23, 2025
Matt Ford
Memecoins Are the Perfect Trumpian Swindle
The president is nobody’s idea of a technology expert, but thanks to his crypto broligarch pals, he has leveled up his grift.
December 26, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Year George Santos’s Campy Conman Act Ate Capitol Hill
New York's fakest lawmaker courted and created scandal, spoon-fed it to the media, and is now capitalizing off it. The story is as American as apple pie.
February 9, 2022
Philippa Snow
In
Inventing Anna,
Wealth Is a Scam
The new Netflix drama about fake heiress Anna Delvey has much in common with “Billions” and “Succession.”
November 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
Do We Really Need an Anti-Woke University?
The new University of Austin seeks to be higher education’s premier institution of monetizing moral panics.
June 23, 2021
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
An Herbal Viagra Scam and the Hard Truth About the Dietary Supplement Industry
A prolific seller of “all-natural” sexual enhancement pills was shut down by the FDA. So why can you still buy Stiff Nights all over the place?
August 4, 2020
J.C. Pan
The Rise of the Creepy Reopening Industry
In the absence of a coherent government response to the pandemic, the private sector has stepped into the void with new disinfecting tools, surveillance apps, and cardboard.
April 3, 2020
Magazine
J.C. Pan
The Pandemic’s Shameless Profiteers
While hucksters and quacks try cash in on the crisis, the coronavirus is fast becoming a windfall for those already on top.
July 30, 2019
Hannah Rosefield
The Voice of a Microgeneration
How Jia Tolentino’s incisive, capacious essays became essential reading.
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