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Securus and ViaPath hold 80% of U.S. prison phone contracts. Families pay up to $14 a call. Here is why.

Two private companies, Securus Technologies and ViaPath, sit on nearly every prison and jail communications contract in the United States. The families of the incarcerated pay the bill, often at rates that…

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Global Power

U.S. sanctioned NSO Group in 2021. By 2025, 4 successor firms had filled the same market. Here is the chain.

When the U.S. Department of Commerce added NSO Group to the Entity List in November 2021, it was framed as…

May 6

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Public Health

70 percent of U.S. hospitals belong to chains. HCA led the merger wave. Here is the data.

Hospital system consolidation in the United States has accelerated since 1998. The promise that drove the merger wave, and the…

May 6

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Public Health

70 percent of U.S. hospitals belong to chains. HCA led the merger wave. Here is the data.

Hospital system consolidation in the United States has accelerated since 1998. The promise that drove the merger wave, and the regulatory approvals that allowed it, was that scale…

A sterile pharmaceutical research lab, illustrating the FDA-pharma revolving door

Corporate Capture

Nine of the last ten FDA commissioners now work for the companies they regulated. The tenth became a venture capitalist. Here is the ledger.

Since 1992, when the Prescription Drug User Fee Act made pharmaceutical companies the FDA's largest funder, the agency has approved drugs faster and policed them less. Industry fees…

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Surveillance State

Facebook proved its algorithm rewards anger in 2018. $164B in ad revenue kept it running. Here is the file.

An internal Facebook memo from 2018 confirmed the algorithm was systematically amplifying outrage because outrage drove engagement. Frances Haugen brought it to the Senate three years later. Meta's…

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Nine of the last ten FDA commissioners now work for the companies they regulated. The tenth became a venture capitalist. Here is the ledger.

Since 1992, when the Prescription Drug User Fee Act made pharmaceutical companies the FDA's largest funder,…

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CCA helped draft Arizona’s immigration law. CCA got the detention contracts. Here is the chain.

Private prison companies operate as both legislative drafter and contract beneficiary. ALEC routes their model bills…

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Securus and ViaPath hold 80% of U.S. prison phone contracts. Families pay up to $14 a call. Here is why.

U.S. sanctioned NSO Group in 2021. By 2025, 4 successor firms had filled the same market. Here is the chain.

70 percent of U.S. hospitals belong to chains. HCA led the merger wave. Here is the data.

70 percent of U.S. hospitals belong to chains. HCA led the merger wave. Here is the data.

Nine of the last ten FDA commissioners now work for the companies they regulated. The tenth became a venture capitalist. Here is the ledger.

Facebook proved its algorithm rewards anger in 2018. $164B in ad revenue kept it running. Here is the file.

Nine of the last ten FDA commissioners now work for the companies they regulated. The tenth became a venture capitalist. Here is the ledger.

CCA helped draft Arizona’s immigration law. CCA got the detention contracts. Here is the chain.

Every event has a paper trail. We read it to you.

Every event has
a paper trail.
We read it to you.