The Algorithm That Owns Your House
In 2008, a little-known government agency called the Federal Housing Finance Agency quietly became the conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—and never left. Fifteen years later, an automated prici...
5 Kesä 14min
The Memo That Killed a City
In 2013, a single legal memo from Treasury quietly redefined what counted as a 'municipal bond' — instantly making it nearly impossible for Detroit to restructure its debt outside of bankruptcy. How o...
4 Kesä 19min
The Revolving Door That Stopped Revolving
When a little-known government ethics office quietly blocked dozens of high-profile Washington job switches in 2023, it sent shockwaves through K Street and corporate boardrooms. We examine how one ob...
3 Kesä 12min
The Pentagon's $60 Billion Accounting Error
In May 2024, Pentagon accountants discovered they had miscalculated the value of weapons sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion—meaning they could send billions more without new Congressional approval. What ...
2 Kesä 13min
The Bureaucrat Who Broke Big Tech
How Lina Khan went from writing a law school paper to wielding the Federal Trade Commission like a sledgehammer against Amazon, Google, and Meta. Her aggressive antitrust agenda has CEOs lawyering up ...
1 Kesä 16min
The Judge Who Couldn't Say No
In 1978, a single federal judge in Alabama became the de facto administrator of the entire state prison system—and held that power for nearly four decades. How Chief Judge Frank Johnson's contempt cit...
31 Touko 17min
The Midnight Memo That Broke FEMA
In 2005, a single bureaucratic decision made 72 hours before Katrina's landfall turned a disaster response into a disaster itself. We trace how one lawyer's memo about federal authority created a coor...
30 Touko 17min
The Revolving Door's Last Stop
When a mid-level FDA regulator quietly rewrote drug approval guidelines three weeks before joining a pharmaceutical company, it exposed how the revolving door between government and industry actually ...
29 Touko 16min
