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March 17, 2026
Mapping Home Insurance Regulation
Differences in state regulations play a major role in the growing crisis over home insurance, which is closely linked to the climate emergency propelled by fossil fuels.
March 17, 2026
Kenny Stancil Fletcher Calcagno Aya Dardari Xaver Clarke
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Tracking State Insurance Commissioners
State insurance commissioners cannot tackle the deeply intertwined crises of fossil fuel-driven climate change, insurance rate hikes and cancellations, and housing injustice on their own. But their role in aggravating or ameliorating problems deserves greater scrutiny.
March 17, 2026 | Slate
Sam Alito’s Latest Reversal at the Supreme Court Is an Absolute Embarrassment
Last month, when the Supreme Court agreed to grant a petition from two oil companies, Suncor and Exxon, in a long-running dispute over whether the companies can be held liable under state law by Boulder, Colorado, for climate damages ensuing from their corporate misconduct, the most notable sentence was the one that was missing: “Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.”
March 13, 2026
The Technobabble Defense: Cryptocurrency
How the cryptocurrency industry lied about it’s supposed innovation in order to escape basic government oversight.
March 06, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Weeks 58-59: Scandals Trump Safety
The consequences of the Trump administration’s unending depravity will be far reaching
March 04, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Hannah Story Brown Toni Aguilar Rosenthal
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Department of Global War and Warming
Even before we had Trump as Commander in Chief committing unconstitutional strikes on the leaders of foreign nations, and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of War ordering apparent war crimes in the Caribbean, we wrote about the military-industrial complex as a “disaster multiplier” in our era of climate change and interlocking crises.
March 03, 2026
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Personal Information at Risk
The United States federal government knows a lot about you. If you’ve ever applied for federal student aid, the Department of Education has records of your income and assets. The Social Security Administration begins collecting information from the moment your parents apply for your Social Security number at birth, adds new data every time Social Security taxes are deducted from your paychecks, and continues to monitor you until the day you die.
February 27, 2026
Righteous Incivility Trumps Silent Defiance
Voters are increasingly calling “bullshit” on opposition tactics that prioritize institutional norms over populist antagonism.
Corruption Calendar
A chronicle of the Trump favor machine highlighting examples of corporate corruption shaping the Trump administration’s agenda and their material impact on everyday people. The Corruption Calendar will trace the lines of money and influence between corporations, billionaires, and executive branch decision making.
February 23, 2026
Inconsistent Recusals Continue at Corrupt Supreme Court
On Monday the Supreme Court agreed to hear a petition from oil companies Suncor and ExxonMobil who want the Court to shut down the climate deception case being brought against the companies by Boulder County, San Miguel County, and the City of Boulder. This petition is one of the oil and gas industry’s many ongoing attempts to evade liability for concealing the harms of its product.
February 20, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Weeks 55-57: Internal Revenue Service, Wire Me $10 billion, Pronto.
Trump’s shakedown state continues to weaponize federal government policy in service of friends and corporations.
February 18, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
Trump Already Decimated the EPA. It Wasn’t Enough for Big Business.
The repeal of the endangerment finding, supported by the Chamber of Commerce, is a final nail in the coffin for a debilitated EPA.
February 13, 2026 | The American Prospect
Doug Burgum, the Regime Toady of Our Time
According to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Donald Trump is the “king of PEACE”—an odd position for a Lutheran like Burgum, as it would rank Trump above the “Prince of Peace,” Jesus Christ—and Europeans should be “cheering” for him to annex Greenland. It’s also odd for the Interior secretary, whose duties principally concern federal lands, to be commenting on European opinion.
February 13, 2026
Chris Lewis Xaver Clarke Hannah Story Brown Emma Marsano Toni Aguilar Rosenthal KJ Boyle
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Tracking Uses of AI in the Trump Administration
As the Trump administration continues to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its operations, we are cataloguing examples of how AI is being deployed by federal agencies to replace human workers and undermine transparency and due process.