Josh Shapiro and Michael Bennet both rose to prominence during the Obama era and have long been considered part of the ...

Corporate sponsors have long bankrolled Washington’s premier Black political event. A new wave of leaders is finally calling them out. Last month, during a panel discussion at the Congressional Black ...

The same man who improperly published names of Epstein’s potential victims will oversee the nation’s spy network and artificial intelligence policy. In a hurry? These are the top stories in the ...

The former GOP operatives behind The Bulwark helped sell Democrats a losing strategy. Now they’re positioning themselves to ...

On the defensive, Sarah Longwell says there’s no evidence Democrats’ alliance with Liz Cheney hurt Kamala Harris. Swing-state ...

After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest ...

A landmark settlement confronts decades of PFAS pollution — but not the corporate system that keeps moving the toxic waste elsewhere. This story was published in collaboration with the Investigative ...

A compromised justice gets benched, Dolly Parton gets an encore, vape waste gets smoked, and Kalshi makes a bad bet.

Toxic waste skips town, neocons cross party lines, Wall Street pockets your interest, and more from The Lever this week.

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