For decades, corporations have used taxpayer-funded fellowship opportunities to help them secure billion-dollar defense contracts.
On this week’s bonus episode of Lever Time, Arjun Singh and Democratic strategist Mark Longabaugh explore Democrats’ winter and spring of discontent.
As financial safety nets collapse, regulators are letting insurers off the hook.
From public universities colluding with Big Pharma to Democrats crushing voter choice, here’s all the news from The Lever this week.
New data show the corporate pay gap is widening — now lawmakers are proposing a crackdown.
Plus, the obscure court circuit trying to repeal the 20th century, how your utility bill funds climate denial, the real reason conservatives oppose student debt relief.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic legislative leaders nix a landmark proposal that would have made Hochul’s fossil fuel donors pay for their pollution.
A Biden envoy shaped defense policy in the Pacific islands while consulting for a private firm with major interests in the region.
The pharma giant previously received billions in federal funding and raked in huge profits, but owes nothing in 2023 income taxes thanks to legal loopholes and Trump-era tax cuts.
What started as a two-person newsletter has grown into a powerhouse newsroom.
Plus, JPMorgan screams the quiet part about health care, Larry Hogan feels the heat from The Lever, and SCOTUS gets even more corporate.