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August 07, 2025
Uber Wrong
In his latest broadside against the left, Mattew Yglesias took aim at longtime critics of Uber’s blatant lawbreaking. In Yglesias’s view, these critics who range from anti-monopoly voices like Lina Khan to anti-corruption experts like our own Jeff Hauser and academics focused on financial regulation like Professor Hillary Allen, constitute a coterie of economics-hating zealots eager to make people’s lives worse.
August 05, 2025 | The Sling
On the Optimal Ratio of Engineers to Lawyers: A Review of Dan Wang’s Breakneck
The book is fascinating and surprisingly fun—with Wang’s piercing dry wit interspersed at a near perfect frequency. It’s also frustrating. While the character of the engineering state is superbly developed, the points where its American “lawyerly” counterpart is brought into the mix are more tenuous.
July 16, 2025 | Citations Needed
PODCAST: Timi Iwayemi Discusses Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of ‘Preempting’ Public Outrage on Citations Needed
Revolving Door Project’s Timi Iwayemi joined Citations Needed to shed light on corporate efforts to shape laws and regulations in their favor, with a particular focus on the crypto industry’s political influence strategy.
July 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
More AI Means More Cancer
Many Americans will pay for AI with their health—especially thanks to Donald Trump’s war on renewable energy.
June 25, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Chatbot, Are We Cooked?
On Tuesday, as New Yorkers headed to the polls for the primaries—hours before Zohran Mamdani’s joyous triumph over Andrew Cuomo would be apparent—it was 100°F, the outdoor public pools were closed to the public, and my neighbors were barefoot in the spray of a fire hydrant. “Opening fire hydrants without spray caps is illegal, wasteful, and dangerous,” read the 12:34 pm email I received from the city. Also wasteful and dangerous was failing to open the city’s public pools in time for a record-breaking heat dome.
June 06, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Week 20: Trump Partners With Palantir To Build A Real World Panopticon
This week has put on full display the Trump administration’s embrace of the white collar criminals, grifters, harmful extractive industries, and fascist tech bros jointly wreaking havoc on our social institutions and the environment.
June 03, 2025
Who’s Behind Abundance Coachella?
Donors to the group behind WelcomeFest include tech baron Reid Hoffman, Walmart heirs, and Michael Bloomberg.
May 14, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
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Inside the Age of AI Anxiety
We’re trying something new for you today: a visual exploration of the political and personal consequences of the dawning “age of AI.” Let us know in the comments if you like this approach to storytelling. It was made by a human, so all experimentation, imperfection, and emotion is my own.
May 14, 2025
Revolving Door Project Warns Against Welcoming Billionaire Marc Andreessen’s Opinions
The Silicon Valley venture capitalist’s longstanding commitment to extreme right-wing ideology makes it clear that any attempts to ingratiate himself with liberals are just a means of obtaining crypto-friendly legislation.
May 09, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Week 16: The Grift That Keeps On Giving
This week, the Trump brothers Eric and Don Jr. embarked on a world tour to make real estate deals while the administration used the threat of tariffs to push Starlink into other countries. Trump allies engaged in price fixing and fraud were given a pass seemingly as a reward for their donations to the president, our retirement savings were placed under the eye of a greedy insurance executive, and consumer protections were targeted by House Republicans eager to find tax breaks for the rich.
May 02, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Week 15: Trump, Binance and MGX—A Crooked Match Made In Dubai.
This week, the Trump family continued to blur the line between politics and business with Trump 2028 merch and a billion dollar deal with Binance and MGX. Trump Jr. and Eric Trump’s potential stock sales and a new elite Washington club further expose this convergence. President Trump’s pardons of allies, Elon Musk’s apparent sway over personnel picks, and the rollback of consumer and coal miner protections add to the ethical concerns.
March 20, 2025
Revolving Door Project Founder Challenges Abundance Authors to Debate
Revolving Door Project Executive Director Jeff Hauser invites Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, and their ideological counterparts to engage in open debate with him or other progressive voices who are skeptical of their agenda and interested in hashing out their differences, in a venue of their choice. It is far better to have the agenda of the non-Trump majority determined by a free-flowing debate rather than settled by the preexisting media power of various figures.
March 05, 2025 | The Sling
Should The Government Subsidize Artificial Intelligence?
It turns out that you can develop cutting edge AI with orders of magnitude less money and energy than we’ve been told.
March 04, 2025
DOGE Agent: Greg Hogan
Musk Connections: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: Andreessen Horowitz-backed start up Comma.ai, Dupont Pioneer
DOGE Deployment: Chief Information Officer, Office of Personnel Management
February 28, 2025
DOGE Agent: Riccardo Biasini
Musk Connections: Former engineer at Tesla, Director of Electrical and Software Engineering at the Boring Company
Other Corporate Affiliations: Driver assist technology startup Comma.ai
DOGE Deployment: Office of Personnel Management