Tech Billionaires and Dark Money: How Donor-Advised Funds Let Silicon Valley Buy Politics Anonymously
In 2022, contributions to donor-advised funds across the United States hit a record $86 billion — an $8 billion increase over the previous year and a figure that represents more…
Layoffs for Citizens, Visas for Foreigners: How Big Tech Abused the H-1B System While Cutting American Workers
Department of Labor H-1B visa application databases cross-referenced with WARN Act layoff notices reveal a troubling pattern: major technology companies conducted mass layoffs of domestic workers in early 2026 while…
Big Pharma’s Revolving Door: How Drug Companies Capture the Regulators Meant to Police Them
Between 1999 and 2018, the pharmaceutical and health products industry spent $4.7 billion lobbying the federal government — an average of $233 million per year — according to a study…
The DEI Consulting Grift: A Billion-Dollar Industry That Can’t Prove It Works
The global diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting market reached an estimated $9.4 billion in 2025, according to industry research, with projections suggesting it will nearly double to $15.8 billion by…
Big Tech’s Hidden Water Crisis: How Data Centers Are Draining America’s Aquifers
Google consumed 6.4 billion gallons of water in 2023, with 95 percent of that total — 6.1 billion gallons — drawn by its data centers. A single Google facility in…
Russian Oligarchs’ Western Real Estate: How Sanctioned Wealth Hides in Plain Sight
When the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released the Pandora Papers in October 2021 — 11.9 million leaked documents comprising 2.9 terabytes of data — the revelations confirmed what anti-corruption…
Iran’s Dark Oil Fleet: How Tehran Evades Sanctions With an Armada of Ghost Ships
Somewhere in the waters of the Riau archipelago, off the coast of Indonesia, a CBS News investigation documented twelve ship-to-ship oil transfers in a single day — an unprecedented concentration…
The UNRWA Files: How Western Tax Dollars Subsidize a UN Agency Infiltrated by Hamas
On the morning of October 7, 2023, Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Israeli civilians in the nation’s history. In the weeks that followed, Israeli intelligence provided documentation to the…
Hidden Foreign University Endowments: How Hostile Nations Buy Influence on American Campuses
In 2025, American universities reported over 8,300 transactions worth $5.2 billion in foreign gifts and contracts to the Department of Education — a record-breaking year in a disclosure program that…
China’s Belt and Road Graveyards: A Trillion-Dollar Trail of Broken Promises and Debt Traps
China’s Belt and Road Initiative was launched in 2013 as the most ambitious infrastructure program in modern history — a trillion-dollar vision to connect Asia, Africa, and Latin America through…