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Katya Schwenk is a reporter with the Lever based in Phoenix, Arizona.
The US Steel plant where two workers were killed and ten injured in an explosion on Monday had a history of chemical accidents. It was one of hundreds of chemical facilities whose risks were hidden from the public after lobbying by the chemical industry.
Led by Delta, many airlines are now working with AI firms to expand the industry’s use of big data for price setting. Using new surveillance techniques, these firms exploit consumer privacy to set “personalized” prices to jack up fares.
Donald Trump’s SEC chair, Paul Atkins, just sold his financial services firm for more than $25 million and is set to receive a huge tax break on the proceeds. He has refused to disclose who is behind the payout or if they have business with the SEC.
Congressional Republicans have delivered on the pro-Israel organization AIPAC’s wish list in the latest military spending bill, including tens of millions of dollars a year for the Israeli military to develop AI technologies.
Some of the world’s largest private security firms are making millions of dollars by aiding ICE with its mass deportations. Now the Trump administration’s record-breaking deportation spending blitz is poised to boost their profits even more.
Backed by tech money, entrepreneur MacKenzie Price is growing a network of private K–12 schools that promises to replace all classroom teachers with an “AI tutor” that students learn from while glued to their laptop screens.
New legislation in Florida introduces a financial model that would enable local governments around the country to invest virtually limitless sums in the Israeli war effort, despite the mounting financial risk of doing so.
UnitedHealth Group’s investors have profited from its sky-high coverage denial rates. Now, as the company faces mounting public pressure to approve more patient care, they are suing to stop the insurer from changing its “corporate practices.”
As Elon Musk and DOGE take a sledgehammer to federal agencies, corporate interests are mounting a coordinated effort to dismantle state-level rules and regulations, from environmental and consumer protections to worker safeguards.
As Donald Trump works to undermine the Social Security Administration, his ultrarich Social Security commissioner, Frank Bisignano, was just approved for a giant tax break on a $484 million capital gains sale.
The GOP’s budget reconciliation bill includes a ban on state-level artificial intelligence regulations that could undermine efforts in several states to rein in pricing consultants like RealPage, a company that helps landlords use AI to “optimize” rent hikes.
An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting data on air travelers from billions of flights — and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.
As Donald Trump tries to bar almost all refugees from entering the US, his administration wants to use federal funds reserved for at-risk refugee populations to facilitate an influx of white South Africans.
Donald Trump’s nominee to regulate retirement savings, Daniel Aronowitz, wants to protect employers and retirement fund managers from lawsuits alleging they fleeced retirees with exorbitant fees — a rule change his company could profit from.
Bowing to the chemical industry lobby, the Environmental Protection Agency has quietly hid data that mapped out the locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities across the US.
“Price optimization” consultants are helping clients capitalize on Trump’s chaotic tariff rollout by using surveillance pricing tools, while Republican FTC chair Andrew Ferguson is reversing efforts to keep them in check.
Private equity firms are increasingly gobbling up the companies that fix planes for commercial airlines, preying on an industry with already weakened oversight and further stoking the fears of aviation safety advocates.
In California, an antitrust lawsuit is arguing that the insurance companies that underwrite bail bonds have for decades illegally colluded to keep bail bond premiums artificially high across the industry.
The new GOP spending bill includes a $485 million budget hike for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That likely means a windfall for the shadowy aviation contractors carrying out ICE’s deportation flights.
Smart Communications has made a killing from charging prison inmates for emails and phone calls. A messy legal struggle for control of the prison-tech empire is exposing the big business of profiting off mass incarceration.