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November 18, 2024
Neal Katyal: Corporate America’s Staunchest Defender
Neal Katyal, former Solicitor General under President Obama, has spent his post-public sector career defending any corporation willing to pay his exorbitant hourly rate.
November 12, 2024
Watchdog Group Will Closely Monitor The Harmful Material Impacts Of The Trump Administration’s Likely Mismanagement Of The Federal Executive Branch
The initial series served as a reminder of the first Trump administration’s utter indifference to the public interest. This time around, the Revolving Door Project will be on hand to provide real time, clear-eyed analyses of the President-elect’s approach towards governance, staffing, ethics and critically, the material impact of his pro-corporate attitudes.
November 08, 2024
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Hot (Takes) To Go
Some Notes on Centrists Blaming Everyone but Themselves
November 07, 2024
Two Plutocrats Shifted Harris’ Earned Media Message. It Didn’t End Well.
In October, billionaire Mark Cuban bragged about his role in exiling a Harris surrogate and former Elizabeth Warren staffer for the sin of supporting a wealth tax during a television appearance….
November 01, 2024
Being Ethical Can Pay Off
Why it’s smart for power-hungry politicians to embrace common sense ethics reforms
October 31, 2024
In New White Paper, Revolving Door Project Provides Recommendations to Reform Government Ethics and Win Back Trust of Americans
Today, the Revolving Door Project published a new white paper, “Rebuilding Public Trust: Six Principles to Guide Reform,” which provides a blueprint for strengthening the federal government’s ethics programs across the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
October 29, 2024
Report: Gas Industry Ramps Up Deceptive Effort to Influence Democrats
A group funded by fracking firms and pipeline companies is ramping up its efforts to cozy up to key Democratic constituencies in service of a pro-polluter agenda, including a bipartisan bill packed with fossil-fuel giveaways that could be considered in Congress in the coming weeks, according to a new report released today by the Revolving Door Project and Public Citizen.
October 28, 2024
State Insurance Commissioners Are Far Too Important to Ignore
The deeply intertwined crises of climate change, insurance rate hikes and cancellations, and housing injustice are escalating. State insurance regulators cannot tackle these problems on their own, but their role in aggravating or ameliorating them deserves greater scrutiny.
October 03, 2024
The Harris Campaign Doesn't Need Adam Kovacevich's Advice
In addition to his litany of Big Tech connections and friendship with far right Senator Tom Cotton, Kovacevich began his political career as a Harvard undergrad successfully fighting a grape boycott organized by labor unions. Around the same time, his family’s non-union grape farm was fined thousands of dollars by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration for “serious violations.”
October 02, 2024 | The American Prospect
Progressives Must Act Now to Shape Kamala Harris’s White House
Now is the time for progressives to weigh in on jobs that don’t require Senate confirmation.
September 26, 2024
Inside 'Tax Prom': The Corporate Sponsors and Award Recipients Shaping U.S. Tax Policy
Featured are two charts, one laying out the 2024 corporate sponsors of the Tax Foundation’s Tax Prom 2024 event, and the other laying out every recipient of the Tax Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award since 1941.
September 19, 2024
Tom Wheeler’s False Promise: How a Leading Telecom Lobbyist Became FCC Chair
Despite promises to crack down on telecom companies, as FCC Chair Tom Wheeler approved corporate mergers and now continues to profit from the telecom sector.
September 19, 2024 | The American Prospect
The Next Administration Can Stop the Government’s Endless Ethics Scandals
Federal officials of any kind should not be overseeing anything in which they have a direct financial interest.
September 12, 2024
Just Because Harris Didn’t Mention Antitrust In The Debate Doesn’t Mean She Abandoned It
Populist messaging on holding corporations accountable remains a strong part of the Vice President’s campaign strategy.
September 11, 2024
Ethics Are Overrated Says Man Who Vouched For The Legitimacy Of The 21st Century’s Largest Scammer
Yglesias’ newest argument is that it’s good Kamala Harris’ debate prep team has glaring conflicts of interest.