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How Data Centers Are Driving Up Your Electricity Costs
How Big Tech is driving up electricity demand and forcing consumers to foot the bill.
Sep 4
73
August 2025
How “Cash-Advance” Apps Are Actually Scamming Borrowers
“Fintech’s colorful, emoji-filled version of payday loans is just the latest in a long tradition of predatory lending.”
Aug 27
55
How Big Rail’s Automation Gamble Could Cost Lives
“It’s a pure profiteering move by the carriers.”
Aug 22
40
This Rail Company Got Away With Poisoning an Entire Town
“There’s an unwritten law of big business in America - if you have enough money, you can get away with almost anything.”
Aug 8
109
The Two Companies Gaming the Dialysis Industry
A look into what happens when CEOs try to run health care like fast food.
Aug 1
66
July 2025
The Scheme To Enrich Utility Companies At Your Expense
Investor-owned utility companies are jacking up energy prices—and regulators aren’t doing enough to stop them.
Jul 30
69
These Trades Workers Voted for Trump. Now They Feel Betrayed.
Trump has cancelled billions of dollars for clean energy projects to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy in his ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’ Workers who voted for…
Jul 17
78
After Receiving Millions in Crypto Support, These Three Democrats Are Pushing the Industry’s Top Bill
The bill would ensure most cryptocurrency tokens are treated as commodities and not securities, limiting the Securities and Exchange Commission’s…
Jul 15
87
The Scandal-Ridden Meatpacking Company Taking Over U.S. Markets
A meatpacking giant known for labor violations and bribery scandals just went public. Now, small farmers and independent ranchers are worried they’ll be…
Jul 9
95
The One Big Beautiful Bill Is a Big Corporate Cash Grab
Here’s a look at the industries that won in the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” and one that didn’t quite get everything it wanted.
Jul 2
93
May 2025
Senate GOP Tees Up Vote on Crypto Bill Expected to Enrich Trump Family
The president’s growing crypto empire presents serious ethical red flags and may amount to criminal violations of anti-corruption laws.
May 8
69
April 2025
How This Legal Worker Visa Became a Human Trafficking Scheme
“Our agricultural production has depended on workers who are in some ways not fully free.”
Apr 26
309
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