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June 25, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter Artificial IntelligenceClimate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownTechTrump 2.0

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 24, 2025

Xaver Clarke

Blog Post Climate and EnvironmentCriminal JusticeEconomic PolicyEducationExecutive BranchHealthImmigrationTrump 2.0

Trump’s War on Public Data

Trump’s antagonistic relationship with facts is well documented. His most egregious attacks on reality aren’t just rhetorical. They threaten physical safety and American democracy. They target the ways we define what we know about the country and ourselves. Trump’s assault on public data is not a side project, it’s a core feature of his authoritarian approach to governance. By hollowing out federal statistics, limiting information gathering, and redacting inconvenient reports, the Trump administration is warping reality to suit its political narrative. The goal isn’t just to obscure the effects of the president’s policies, it’s to prevent the public from seeing them at all.

June 20, 2025 | The American Prospect

Hannah Story Brown

Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownRevolving Door

Why Is a Former Obama Official Attacking the Left on Climate?

“We’ve lost the culture war on climate,” Harvard law professor and former Obama administration adviser Jody Freeman told Politico last Wednesday. The article amounts to a dry eulogy for efforts to combat climate change, with Freeman’s refrain that the climate movement failed to go mainstream in the background. What goes unmentioned: Freeman’s extracurricular work as oil industry whisperer.

June 11, 2025 | Citations Needed

Kenny Stancil Henry Burke

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PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil and Henry Burke Discuss "Abundance" as Counter to Left Populism on Citations Needed

Revolving Door Project senior researchers Kenny Stancil and Henry Burke joined Citations Needed to talk about the so-called Abundance agenda, including how it’s being promoted as an alternative to a downwardly redistributive economic populism.

June 11, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter AbundanceClimate and EnvironmentSupreme CourtTrump 2.0

Is Brett Kavanaugh the new Ezra Klein?

After live-tweeting his fallout with the world’s richest man, the president has been soothing himself with the pageantry of control. Miles of tanks have rolled into D.C. in preparation for Trump’s military parade. ICE agents have raided workplaces and seized thousands of people across the country. Police have targeted journalists, medics, and protestors in Los Angeles with rubber bullets, tear gas, and smoke grenades. Now the latest escalation: the president has deployed Marines to Los Angeles, threatening martial law. 

May 30, 2025

Kenny Stancil

Newsletter Climate and EnvironmentCorruption CalendarCriminal JusticeCryptocurrencyDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchHousingImmigrationRevolving DoorTrump 2.0

Corruption Calendar Week 19: “We Reject Regulators.” Pardon Me?

This week the Trump administration deepened its wildly corrupt and lucrative crypto grift, sought to further enrich wealthy supporters at the direct expense of working households, and continued to pardon white-collar criminals who don the red MAGA cap.