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March 20, 2024
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Sam Russek
The Mattress Tycoon Funding the Far Right in Texas
Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale likes making viral videos and huge bets on Houston sports teams. He’s also spending big to push the state even further right.
October 10, 2022
Jason Linkins
The United States of Plutocracy
As if dodgy oligarchs and shifty tax cheats didn’t have enough help hiding their ill-gotten gains, your state government may have stepped up to join the con.
August 24, 2022
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft
How Britain Built an Empire of Fraud
The United Kingdom has given a range of financial crimes a sheen of respectability.
August 4, 2022
Casey Michel
The Kleptocrat Who Bankrolled Rudy Guiliani’s Dive for Dirt on Biden
Fresh reporting illuminates the role that Dmitro Firtash played in funding the operation that would end in Trump's first impeachment.
July 18, 2022
Casey Michel
The One Issue That Unites Washington
Democrats and Republicans alike are finally putting the screws to kleptocrats—and their American enablers.
April 27, 2022
Casey Michel
Representative Steve Cohen Wants to Build a New Weapon to Fight Kleptocrats
British lawyers have long helped corrupt oligarchs protect their ill-gotten loot. The Tennessee Democrat wants to hold these enablers to account.
March 16, 2022
Timothy Noah
The Oligarchs Can’t Depose Putin—but Let’s Put the Screws to Them Anyway
They’ve had it coming for a very long time.
March 7, 2022
Alex Shephard
Is Soccer on the Brink of a Moral Awakening?
A year of upheaval has pushed the sport to a crossroads.
March 2, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Should Democrats Return Len Blavatnik’s Campaign Donations?
The Russian moneyman—don’t call him an oligarch!—has kept Putin at arm’s length. But is this really the kind of money Democrats want?
August 25, 2020
J.C. Pan
The Republicans’ Love Letter to Rich Culture Warriors
The first night of the GOP convention was the dying gasp of the party’s feeble crack at right-wing populism.
April 19, 2019
Justin Lynch
The Oligarch Battle Behind Ukraine’s Presidential Election
The run-off between incumbent Petro Poroshenko and comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine-watchers say, is part of a struggle going back years.
October 30, 2014
Maria Snegovaya
The Russian Sanctions Are Working: Putin Can't Keep Buying Popularity
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