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September 3, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Notorious MAGA Fraudsters Back at It Again With New Scam
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have been caught at a new grift, just months after being hit with a settlement payment for a voter intimidation scam.
August 16, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Reveals the Shocking Amount He Made on Dumb Bible Scam
Donald Trump has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from hawking Bibles.
July 17, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Trump Is Now Selling Ugly Assassination Merch
Donald Trump is trying to fundraise off of the attempt on his life.
July 9, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Fox Business Runs the Most Insane Pro-Trump Commercial Ever
The ad is just as scammy as Donald Trump himself.
June 11, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Biden’s Israel Waffling Let This Company Scam Refugees
An Egyptian company is charging Palestinian refugees thousands of dollars to get out of Gaza.
May 8, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Uses Break From Criminal Trial to Talk About Weird NFTs Again
Donald Trump is out of court and this is how he’s spending his time.
April 19, 2024
Ben Metzner
The Unexpected Way Trump’s Hush-Money Trial Is Hobbling His Campaign
Trump’s mandatory courtroom attendance has thrown a wrench into fundraising.
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.
December 8, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
SantaCon Isn’t Just Obnoxious
It’s also reportedly a bit of a scam.
June 29, 2023
Prem Thakker
Here’s Even More Evidence That Trump’s SPAC is a Scam
Three investors in an entity connected to it were just arrested for insider trading.
January 18, 2023
Prem Thakker
George Santos Stole $3,000 Raised for a Homeless Veteran’s Dying Dog
A new report says that Santos’s fake animal charity raised $3,000 on GoFundMe for a veteran’s dying service dog. Santos then took the money and disappeared.
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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