An assault-rifle manufacturer helped Collins land a job after a failed gubernatorial campaign. She later backed legislation shielding gunmakers from lawsuits.

Test your knowledge of broken pledges, corporate landlords, and other issues that really matter.

A decade of filings reveals technology that could instantly change prices based on what’s in your cart, your perceived personality, and even the specifics of your car.

Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney reveals what he learned after years of researching and reporting on the world’s richest person.

Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh on why he backed Trump, how the Tea Party became MAGA, and why Democrats should stop fearing their own base.

Pro-Israel Democrats oppose the Michigan Democrat’s views, yes. But they also fear his election would make them politically irrelevant.

Republican Senate hopeful Mike Rogers (Mich.) dropped a six-figure investment in the nation’s biggest landlord while Blackstone hiked students’ rent and leaned into evictions.

The Texas Democratic hopeful has been slippery about his fossil fuel commitments.

Corporate water providers charge customers hundreds more annually than households connected to public systems, according to a new analysis.

Everything’s bigger in Texas — even the political upsets.

Michael Bennet And Josh Shapiro On Why It’s Time For Democrats To “Get Shit Done.”

The same man who improperly published names of Epstein’s potential victims will oversee the nation’s spy network and artificial intelligence policy.

Corporate sponsors have long bankrolled Washington’s premier Black political event. A new wave of leaders is finally calling them out.

Toxic waste skips town, neocons cross party lines, Wall Street pockets your interest, and more from The Lever this week.

On the defensive, Sarah Longwell says there’s no evidence Democrats’ alliance with Liz Cheney hurt Kamala Harris. Swing-state polling says otherwise.

A compromised justice gets benched, Dolly Parton gets an encore, vape waste gets smoked, and Kalshi makes a bad bet.

Test your knowledge of PSAs, forever chemicals, and other issues that really matter.

Cal Newport looks beyond the doomsday predictions and tackles some of the thorniest questions about AI – how it’s changing the way we work, think, and live.

The former GOP operatives behind The Bulwark helped sell Democrats a losing strategy. Now they’re positioning themselves to shape the party’s 2028 nominee.

Department of Governmental Efficiency teams are ignoring watchdog requests for information about their access to Americans’ personal data.

A quiet rule change could signal “the end of independent financial regulators” just as the SEC prepares to deregulate crypto, mega-IPOs, and corporate governance.

“I can walk and chew gum at the same time,” said New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland.

A landmark settlement confronts decades of PFAS pollution — but not the corporate system that keeps moving the toxic waste elsewhere.

One of Wall Street’s biggest firms just acknowledged that giving you a better deal could destabilize American banking.

The Maryland senator says Congress has surrendered too much power to the president — and he knows what Democrats should do about it.

Banks make billions underpaying depositors — and Wall Street just admitted that consumers finding better deals could threaten the system.

The White House has issued a taxpayer-funded “PSA” that looks a lot like a repurposed MAGA campaign advertisement.

As David Sacks pushed Trump to reject AI safeguards, his venture capital firm invested in AI startups and is now raising a new $1 billion fund.

Silicon Valley’s rogue agents, a bad Hollywood ending, and more from The Lever this week.

An unprecedented lawsuit from Iranian-American families challenges Trump’s ability to wage war without Congress.

Test your knowledge of Hollywood mergers, super PACs, and other issues that really matter.

After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to catch up.

The most frightening thing about rogue AI agents may be how faithfully they mirror the powerful humans who created them.

Former FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya and antitrust legal expert Lee Hepner dig into the fine print, loopholes, and false promises of the Paramount merger settlement.

With Paramount, you don’t need a catalog of failed consent decrees to understand what is to come. You only need the record of the family making the promises.

An industry super PAC is declaring war on a purple-state Democrat for the second time in two years.

Banks that adopt artificial intelligence average more “problem” loans and less small business lending.

Democrats promised to play hardball, then accepted loophole-ridden pledges leaving Paramount’s $111 billion megamerger intact.

Should the next Democratic president rein in Trump’s expanded powers — or use them?

The Winklevoss twins gave another multimillion-dollar gift to MAGA Inc. before pushing the Trump administration to pursue cryptocurrency rules that Congress rejected.

After denying its Wall Street ties, Black Bear quietly installed a private equity executive as CEO.

AI doomsday distractions, Big Tech’s Democratic allies, a Cruz-linked attack ad, and more from The Lever this week.

An AI apocalypse involving killer robots is terrifying, but don’t overlook a speculative bubble whose collapse will reverberate across the economy.

Alex Bores has a plan to make AI safeguards a central issue in the 2028 Democratic presidential primaries.

AI gets detention, voting rights get legal enforcement, court power stops coal power, and the kid who took on Big Hospital.

Iowa Republican Joe Mitchell says he’s fighting insiders and lobbyists, but he worked for a public relations firm that boasts, “Data center developers count on us.”

Test your knowledge of AI, superstars, and other issues that really matter.

How the “corruption of inaction” in both parties is helping AI oligarchs avoid accountability and endanger the world.

David Sirota speaks with Ed Zitron and Matt Stoller about the AI panic sweeping Wall Street and Washington — and what Big Tech CEOs really want.

Before vowing to end data center tax breaks, the Texas Senate candidate voted to create them after accepting 100,000 shares in a server company.