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Did That Really Happen In 2025?
Test your knowledge of consolidation in the frozen potato market, new national security directives, and other issues from the past year that really matter.
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December 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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2025, Lever Style
It’s been a huge year for The Lever — and we’re just getting started.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Too Big To Heal
The U.S. economy is growing ever more reliant on the health care crisis.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Erik Prince’s Pirates of the Caribbean
Republicans are seeking to resurface an antiquated maritime power to sic private pirates on drug cartels.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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How The Blob Won The Military A $1 Trillion Budget
A network of arms industry-funded think tanks and media operatives helped manufacture consent before a record-breaking $1 trillion defense budget.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Regulators Want Spectacle To Trump Safety Protections
Echoing a young Brett Kavanaugh, Trump workplace regulators say jobs in entertainment, sports, and other fields are too dangerous to be covered by safety protections.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Rutger Bregman On Democrats, Purity Politics, And Moral Ambition
David Sirota and Rutger Bregman debate moral ambition, getting the powerful to admit when they’re wrong, and the fate of the Democratic Party.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Who Stole The Slopes?
Corporate power has made winter sports like skiing and snowboarding the activities of the rich and famous.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Regulatory Ruptures For A Lab-Grown Blood Vessel
Despite controversies and safety concerns, biotech firm Humacyte is pushing its cutting-edge lab-grown blood vessels for uses far beyond what regulators have allowed.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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LEVER WEEKLY: Life, Liberty, And Affordable Mortgages
The democratic risks of our housing crisis, the big AI short, and more from The Lever this week.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Bottled Water Gets Squeezed
Collective bargaining is unbanned, a rideshare giant gets sued, a new player takes on surveillance pricing, and water runs free.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Confessions Of The Retired And Powerless
Mitt Romney’s reversal on taxes comes only after he's given up the power to fix the problem he fortified.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Are Bankers Really Shorting AI?
Test your knowledge of meatpacker price-fixing, revolutionary political philosophy, and other issues that really matter.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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This Is The Garbage Economy
WM just announced “outsized shareholder returns” after admitting its higher prices may be driving customers away.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The AI Boom Just Jacked The Price Of Your Electronics
Prominent computer chip part maker Micron is abandoning its consumer-side business in favor of artificial intelligence, enabling its competitors to raise prices.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Are We Trapped In Meaningless Jobs?
Why our economy wastes talent instead of solving the world’s biggest problems.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Bank’s Favorite Regulator Goes Venture Capital
A former Biden-era financial regulator accused of going easy on banking supervision has a new job as a venture capitalist.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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The Big Short 2: AI Boogaloo
An increasing number of Wall Street investors are betting against artificial intelligence.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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An AI Hail Mary
The president’s attempt to backdoor in a federal artificial intelligence preemption isn’t what it seems.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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What You Need To Know About The Supreme Court’s Citizens United 2.0
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case deciding the future of campaign finance — these are the standout moments.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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The Housing Crisis Is A Democracy Crisis
This country was founded on the idea of being rooted to where you live — but the corporate state has flipped the script.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Once A Casino Tycoon, Always A Casino Tycoon
Trump appears poised to hand a golden egg to his longtime friends in the gambling industry.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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This Is How We End Citizens United
Colorado’s Attorney General joins Montana’s battle to use the Supreme Court’s own precedent to strip corporations of their personhood status.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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LEVER WEEKLY: Are You On The FBI’s Naughty List?
Google wined and dined lawmakers, the Epstein files yield new revelations, and more from The Lever this week.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: They’re Raging Against The Machine
Upstarts are taking on establishment politics, companies turn against Trump’s tariffs, underage workers get protections, and the phone company dials up pharma payback.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM