Analysis

TIJ's weekend analysis: a single week of public-record disclosures shows an American disclosure architecture splitting in two — even as federal enforcement surges in visible cases.

The week ending April 30, 2026 produced an unusually heavy slate of think tank output across the political spectrum, with the ongoing Iran war driving much of the foreign-policy commentary…

TIJ counted at least $2.4 billion in newly alleged or recently adjudicated fraud this week — consistent with the upper bound of the GAO's $233-$521 billion federal fraud range. Patterns…

TIJ's weekly survey of policy papers from Brookings, AEI, Cato, RAND, Urban Institute, Tax Foundation, Carnegie Endowment, and EPI.

A week of historic recoveries — Aetna's $117.7M Medicare settlement, IBM's $17M DEI case, the Live Nation verdict, and Treasury's 'Economic Fury' sanctions — ran alongside a widening oversight gap:…

This week’s think tank output spans the economic fallout from geopolitical turmoil, the future of U.S. energy innovation, legal immigration trends, tax filing season data, and the challenge of AI…

ANALYSIS This week, TIJ’s coverage spanned three seemingly unrelated beats: securities enforcement, sustainable investing, and international labor rights. But viewed together, the stories share a striking common thread — the…