From The Lever
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Congress May Cancel Your Automatic Flight Refunds
Airline-bankrolled lawmakers just added language to a bill that could undermine Biden’s promise of automatic refunds on canceled or delayed flights.
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LEVER TIME PREMIUM: How Reagan Created Today’s Monopoly Crisis
On this week’s bonus episode of Lever Time, we explore how lax enforcement of antitrust laws allowed big companies to rob the middle class.
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LEVER WEEKLY: Pentagon Grifts And Zombie Pipelines
From insurance meltdowns and zombie pipelines to Pentagon grifts, here’s all the news from The Lever this week.
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Flying The Fairer Skies
Plus, employers can no longer stop employees from working for their rivals, and Big Oil loses some of its dominance over public lands nationwide.
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The Great Unknown About Conflicts Of Interest In Arizona’s Abortion Ban
As state supreme courts consolidate power and corporate money, shoddy oversight allows justices to hide their financial conflicts of interest from the public.
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The Pentagon’s 30-Year Lobbying Swindle
For decades, corporations have used taxpayer-funded fellowship opportunities to help them secure billion-dollar defense contracts.
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LEVER TIME PREMIUM: Democratic Voters Fight The Party Machine
On this week’s bonus episode of Lever Time, Arjun Singh and Democratic strategist Mark Longabaugh explore Democrats’ winter and spring of discontent.
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Climate Change Is Coming For Your Insurance
As financial safety nets collapse, regulators are letting insurers off the hook.
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LEVER WEEKLY: Affordable Medicine Is Locked Up In The Ivory Tower
From public universities colluding with Big Pharma to Democrats crushing voter choice, here’s all the news from The Lever this week.
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CEOs Got Raises As They Cut Workers’ Pay
New data show the corporate pay gap is widening — now lawmakers are proposing a crackdown.
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SIROTA’S SIGNALS: The Dem States Embracing GOP Anti-Tax Zealotry
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.
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Handing Taxpayers The Climate Cleanup Bill
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.