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…
The Arabella Machine: Inside the Dark Money Network That Spawns Pop-Up Activist Groups on Demand
IRS filings reveal how Arabella Advisors and its constellation of managed nonprofits — the Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, Windward Fund, and Hopewell Fund — quietly channeled hundreds of…
The Gold IRA Hustle: How Precious Metal Scammers Weaponized Conservative Media to Fleece Retirees
SEC and CFTC enforcement actions reveal a systematic scheme to defraud conservative investors through deceptive gold IRA marketing, with markups reaching 130% on coins sold as safe-haven investments. An investigation…
Inside Chicago’s Migrant Gold Rush: How Politically Connected Contractors Turned a Humanitarian Crisis into a Cash Machine
A forensic investigation into the no-bid contracts, inflated hourly rates, and opaque vendor relationships that defined Chicago’s early response to the migrant crisis — and the insiders who profited. Image…