Where Your Union Dues Really Go: How America’s Largest Teachers’ Unions Spend Billions on Politics While Classrooms Crumble
Department of Labor LM-2 filings reveal that the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers spend nearly four times more on political activities and donations than on directly representing…
The December Donation Scam: How Fringe PACs Exploited Conservative Email Lists to Pocket Millions in ‘Emergency’ Year-End Fundraising
FEC disbursement records from Q4 2023 reveal a familiar pattern: politically themed PACs blast urgent fundraising appeals to conservative donors in December, collect millions, and spend the vast majority on…
California’s $128 Billion Rail to Nowhere: A Year of Missing Deadlines, Budget Explosions, and the Consultants Who Keep Cashing In
A 2023 retrospective on the California High-Speed Rail project — where the cost has ballooned from $33 billion to $128 billion, over 1,000 change orders have been approved, and the…
The Veteran Charity Racket: How Patriotic-Sounding Nonprofits Spend 90% on Overhead
They have names designed to stir patriotic emotion — phrases combining “veteran,” “warrior,” “hero,” and “freedom” in arrangements calculated to open wallets. They deploy images of wounded soldiers, grieving families,…
Big Tech’s Hidden Water Crisis: How Silicon Valley’s Data Centers Are Draining the Desert While Preaching Climate Virtue
Municipal water utility records reveal that major tech companies are consuming billions of gallons of water annually to cool their data centers — in some of the most water-stressed regions…
Educating for Extremism: How Western Aid Money Funded UNRWA Textbooks That Glorified Violence Before October 7
NGO Monitor reports, translated Palestinian Authority curricula, and UNRWA budget records reveal a direct pipeline from Western taxpayer dollars to educational materials that promoted violence and extremism in Gaza’s schools…
The Great Offshore Wind Bailout: How Foreign Developers Demanded Billions in Taxpayer Subsidies After Their Green Energy Gamble Failed
When Ørsted announced $4 billion in write-downs and cancelled its flagship New Jersey wind projects, it exposed the fundamental economics of offshore wind: projects that only work with massive public…
Lahaina’s Preventable Catastrophe: The Bureaucratic Failures That Turned a Brush Fire Into America’s Deadliest Wildfire in a Century
An investigative reconstruction of the August 8, 2023 Lahaina fire — from the decision not to sound warning sirens to the utility company’s failure to clear brush to the water…
USAID’s Ghost Projects: Billions in Development Aid That Built Nothing
In a provincial capital in Afghanistan, a $14 million women’s education center stands empty, its classrooms never occupied, its computer lab still sealed in shipping containers. In South Sudan, a…
Big Pharma’s Statehouse Siege: How the Drug Industry Spent Record Sums to Kill Generic Medicine Bills in 2023
While Congress debated federal drug pricing, pharmaceutical companies quietly deployed a record lobbying offensive at the state level — targeting generic drug legislation and PBM reform in at least 24…