It’s been a huge year for The Lever — and we’re just getting started.
National Politics
Big Power-bought utilities regulators are openly plotting how they’ll get rich after leaving office.
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.
Trump’s immigration enforcers just inked a multimillion-dollar deal for AI-driven social media surveillance software used by the Israeli military and the Pentagon.
The Trump administration asked corporations to identify regulatory “burdens” — now they’re building a hit list of their most hated consumer protection laws.
For decades, big business-funded economics courses have been pushing the nation’s judges to the right.
The Pittsburgh plant that exploded on Monday had a history of chemical accidents — and the Trump administration made that secret.
An eight-year legal battle for the Epstein files uncovers the Justice Department’s shifting, contradictory legal arguments.
Trump’s SEC chair just sold his financial services firm for more than $25 million to an unknown buyer — and is set to receive a massive tax break on the proceeds.
After a secret lobbying effort, Trump’s Justice Department ousted staff and reversed course on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s proposed megamerger.