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September 2, 2026
A Fitting End to a Big-Money Primary Season
Two establishment candidates are playing with nearly $10 million in campaign cash, using it mainly to attack one another while progressives look on haplessly.
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September 1, 2026
Organized Money: How Trump Lost Cattle Ranchers
The business of raising and processing beef in America has been ground to dust in service of profit for publicly traded behemoths like Walmart.
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September 1, 2026
How You’re Paying for All These Flock Cameras
Money intended for treatment of the opioid crisis and insurance fees to stop auto part theft have instead gone to installing AI-fueled license plate readers.
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August 27, 2026
Health Care Reform Needs More Than Universal Coverage
Medicare for All without tackling the extreme consolidation in health care would just funnel money to corporate behemoths, a new report states.
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August 25, 2026
Organized Money: An Existential Threat to Neighborhood Restaurants
Sysco proposes acquisition to halve independent restaurants and double double your burger’s price.
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August 25, 2026
How Trump Declared Economic War on His Own People
The simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky.
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August 21, 2026
FTC Says It Will Enforce Surveillance Pricing. It Won’t.
Its policy statement merely targets disclosure. It doesn’t say that using personal data to set prices is an unfair or deceptive practice.
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August 20, 2026
The Credit Card Operative Helping Shape Democratic Primaries
Peter Kauffmann, vice chair for VoteVets, which has raised $20 million to spend in primaries on mostly moderate candidates this year, is running a front group fighting to keep credit card fees hig...
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August 20, 2026
MI-07: Tom Barrett Scrambles to Bury His Data Center Past
The Republican incumbent voted for massive tax breaks for data centers in the Big Beautiful Bill. Now he’s saying Washington shouldn’t decide on the facilities.
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August 19, 2026
Fake Poll Scandal Has All the Earmarks of a Pump-and-Dump Scheme
If you wanted to rig political prediction markets, this is exactly how you would do it.
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August 18, 2026
Organized Money: An AI Expert Explains the Hype
Part vaporware, part useful tool, AI’s utility is worth a discussion.
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August 18, 2026
The Last Big Primary Night of the Year
Here’s what’s happening in Florida and across the country in key races.
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August 14, 2026
Paramount’s Merger Strategy: Empty Promises and Empty Threats
The studio is alleging that the state attorneys general challenge to the merger with Warner Bros. is all about CNN, and that they’ll leave Hollywood if they don’t get their way.
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August 13, 2026
Congress Face-Plants on Surprise Health Care Bills
Lawmakers wanted to reform surprise billing so patients weren’t hit with unexpected charges. But they also created a parallel system with new middlemen that is increasing health care costs.
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August 11, 2026
Mamdani’s Taking On Amazon. His Opponent? Chuck Schumer’s Daughter.
Legislation before the New York City Council would end Amazon’s subcontracting of delivery drivers. Jessica Schumer is the lead lobbyist against it.
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August 11, 2026
Organized Money: Mamdani Marts vs. Big Grocery
It’s not socialism. It’s really nothing any more revolutionary than how military families shop for food.
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August 11, 2026
The Senate’s Mad Dash to Pass Something Before the Midterms
It was a lot of sound and fury signifying next to nothing, as most of the bills the Senate passed and the ones it punted to September are doomed.
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August 10, 2026
Super PACs Find It Hard to Shake Partnerships With AIPAC
In Minnesota’s Second Congressional District, pro-Israel groups are spending millions on Matt Klein. But Kaela Berg’s supporters partnered with the same groups in the past.
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August 5, 2026
Progressives Make Major Gains in Michigan
Though Abdul El-Sayed didn’t win by as much as anticipated, it was a strong night. Now the proposition about progressives in swing seats will be tested.
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August 5, 2026
The AIPAC Universe Comes Together for Sequel in California
An array of super PACs is trying to muscle through Melissa Hernandez in a low-turnout special election for a Bay Area House seat.
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August 4, 2026
The Michigan Revolution Is About Old-Fashioned Politics
Progressives like Abdul El-Sayed and Will Lawrence are running solid races. Moderates have fallen back on old arguments. Signs point to the progressives winning.
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August 3, 2026
The AI Bailout Could Be Baked Into the AI Bubble
Private credit companies are key owners of AI-related assets. Many of their parent private equity firms own life insurers that are dumping grounds for bad loans—and subject to state bailouts.
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July 31, 2026
Trump to HIV and Cancer Patients: Get Back to Work
A surprise rule added to the Big Beautiful Bill could disrupt access to Medicaid for people with serious illnesses who thought they were exempted from work requirements.
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July 30, 2026
Louis Brandeis: The Empiricist
Louis Brandeis believed that facts could change lives and break excessive power where it accumulated.
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July 28, 2026
Organized Money: The Roll-Up of All Media Is No Longer Inevitable (with Adam Conover)
Antitrust is poking tiny holes in oligopoly’s dark cloak; is the light winning?
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July 27, 2026
These Are Our Prospect Patriots
In the nation’s 250th year, we turn an eye to Americans who challenged power, took risks, and made our country greater.
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July 24, 2026
She Bought a Business. It Almost Killed Her.
Franchisees with Kitchen and Bath Tune-Up say they are going broke due to hidden fees and charges. When they try to exit, even bigger fees pop up.
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July 23, 2026
Reconciling with Inaction
Republicans are unlikely to get much of anything done between now and the election.
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July 22, 2026
Why Paramount Should Be Worried
A look inside the judge’s ruling for a brief pause in Paramount’s proposed deal with Warner Bros. reveals that the merger is in a shaky position.
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July 20, 2026
Jackson Earns Senate Nomination Sweep
The North Woods logger and former state senator out-organized everyone to take Graham Platner’s place on the ballot.
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