When progressive candidate Gary Chambers decided to run for the U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana, the chair of the Democratic party told him that “she didn’t think a Black man could win.” Now, Chambers ...

Corporations are opposed to a California bill that would make it harder for companies — including fast-food giants — to hide their climate emissions. With the Biden administration now reportedly ...

Just before the Israel-Hamas war ceasefire deal, Donald Trump’s son-in-law doubled his stake in an Israeli firm that stands to gain from expanding Israeli settlements. Jared Kushner, President-elect ...

Every day, The Lever is uncovering all the ways the rich and powerful are manipulating the levers of power. How well are you keeping up? To find out, we’re launching a weekly news quiz, LeverMind, to ...

Abundance liberals and populists can together combat scarcity — but one side has to come clean. If politics is now just a series of reality TV shows, then binge-watchers have probably seen some ...

On this week’s Lever Time: We explore why the Democrats sided with railroad barons; dig into a new documentary on the student debt crisis; and engage with a humorous defense of elitism. In addition, ...

As nurses from two New York hospitals fight for better treatment, the executives in charge have been boosting their own pay and slashing charity care. On Monday, 7,000 New York nurses at Montefiore ...

The GENIUS Act isn’t just a crypto giveaway — it could turn tech giants into unregulated banks. That means we could soon live in a world where all online transactions will require us to pay for goods ...

As a major rail strike looms, rail executives have been reluctant to meet workers’ demands for better pay, benefits, and time off. At the same time, the CEOs of five of the largest railroad ...

While Meta’s CEO gets paid a $1 annual salary, filings reveal the company shelled out $24 million last year for his personal security and private jet travel. What Trump’s tariffs mean for your closet.

Chris Deluzio keeps winning a battleground district in the nation’s most pivotal swing state — could he point the way forward for his floundering party? It’s a bleak winter morning in Millvale, a tiny ...

As rising prices crushed consumers, a new study found that corporate media blamed inflation on outside factors, not companies’ booming bottom lines. Now, with greedflation making a comeback as ...