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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Maduro

    Corporations invested in lawsuits before Venezuela invasion

    Originally published: The Lever on January 3, 2026 by Luke Goldstein and Lucy Dean Stockton (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2026)

    Trump’s removal of President Nicolás Maduro could tilt international court proceedings and provide a windfall to corporate plaintiffs.

  • Philadelphia mayoral candidate Helen Gym. (AP Photo / Matt Rourke)

    “We must build an alternative”

    Originally published: The Lever on May 15, 2023 by Matthew Cunningham-Cook (more by The Lever)  | (Posted May 16, 2023)

    How Helen Gym’s fight to save a hospital turned her into a frontrunner to be Philadelphia’s next mayor.

  • Chevron Sign (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) & Justice Clarence Thomas (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)

    Clarence Thomas reversed position after gifts and family payments

    Originally published: The Lever on May 9, 2023 by Andrew Perez (more by The Lever)  |

    The Supreme Court justice switched sides on a landmark legal doctrine, satisfying his benefactors’ conservative advocacy machine.

  • The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

    Tax-free day for the ultra-wealthy

    Originally published: The Lever on April 18, 2023 by Andrew Perez , Matthew Cunningham-Cook & Rebecca Burns (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Apr 20, 2023)

    New data show the wealthiest Americans have stashed $2 trillion in offshore tax havens, as the government relaxes efforts to combat tax evasion.

  • Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

    Thomas pushed to kill disclosure laws while getting secret billionaire gifts

    Originally published: The Lever on April 12, 2023 (more by The Lever)  |

    “This court should invalidate mandatory disclosure and reporting requirements,” wrote Clarence Thomas, who did not disclose years of gifts from a billionaire.

  • A 2011 rally hosted by No Labels on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    America’s first dark money ballot line

    Originally published: The Lever on April 10, 2023 by Andrew Perez (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Apr 12, 2023)

    The latest scheme to launch a centrist, third-party “unity” ticket comes from a dark money front for corporate interests.

  • New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

    Hochul is helping her fossil fuel donors gut key climate law

    Originally published: The Lever on April 4, 2023 (more by The Lever)  |

    After scoring half a million from oil and gas interests, New York’s Democratic governor wants to allow utilities to burn fossil fuels for decades longer than currently permitted.

  • Sen. John Thune (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

    Rail-lobbyist-turned-Senator could block safety bill

    Originally published: The Lever on March 9, 2023 by Julia Rock, Jordan Uhl & Matthew Cunningham-Cook (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Mar 11, 2023)

    John Thune embodies the rail industry’s Washington influence machine that could now kill bipartisan safety legislation.

  • Politico article presented by the Association of American Railroads (AAR).

    Rail lobbyists pay Politico to tout train safety

    Originally published: The Lever on February 28, 2023 by Andrew Perez (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Mar 06, 2023)

    The Beltway newsletter is running ads about the railroad industry’s alleged commitment to safety as rail lobbyists fight new safety rules.

  • President Joe Biden greets Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at the 2023 State of the Union address. (Jacquelyn Martin)

    Biden DOJ backing Norfolk Southern’s bid to block lawsuits

    Originally published: The Lever on February 16, 2023 by Rebecca Burns & Julia Rock (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Feb 23, 2023)

    The company whose train derailed in Ohio is asking the Supreme Court to kill a suit by a sick rail worker—and help the firm block future lawsuits.

  • Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and the campaign to greenwash natural gas (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack).

    The corporate campaign to greenwash natural gas

    Originally published: The Lever on February 14, 2023 by Naomi LaChance (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2023)

    Fossil fuel-backed Democrats and Republicans are teaming up to promote natural gas as a clean energy source and maintain its use.

  • MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM

    Introducing our new podcast: ‘Movies vs Capitalism’

    Originally published: The Lever on February 7, 2023 (more by The Lever)  |

    The Lever’s new movie podcast launches.

  • AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File

    A Wall Street time bomb

    Originally published: The Lever on February 2, 2023 by David Sirota (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Feb 05, 2023)

    After reaping huge fees off workers’ savings, private equity firms’ subterfuge could imperil promised benefits for millions of workers and retirees.

  • Beto O'Rourke and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. (AP Photo)

    The lawsuit that could freeze speech against billionaires

    Originally published: The Lever on January 20, 2023 by Jordan Uhl (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Jan 23, 2023)

    A gas mogul’s case against Beto O’Rourke could deter candidates from ever talking about money in politics.

  • AP Photo/Elise Amendola

    How Big Pharma actually spends its massive profits

    Originally published: The Lever on January 6, 2023 (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Jan 10, 2023)

    New research shows that pharmaceutical companies have spent more on enriching shareholders than drug research and development over the past decade.

  • Congress Dark Money

    Congress still protecting dark money donors

    Originally published: The Lever on December 20, 2022 by Andrew Perez (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Dec 22, 2022)

    A series of measures in Congress’ annual omnibus spending bill show that Democrats have given up their fight to end the dark money era.

  • Leonard Leo speaks at the 2017 National Lawyers Convention. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

    Leonard Leo’s latest Supreme Court play

    Originally published: The Lever on December 14, 2022 by Andy Kroll, Andrew Perez & Aditi Ramaswami (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Dec 19, 2022)

    The conservative activist’s dark money network is bankrolling groups pressing the high court to gut election, affirmative action, and discrimination laws.

  • Cryptocurrency options for your 401(k). (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, )

    Crypto bros want your 401(k)

    Originally published: The Lever on December 12, 2022 by Matthew Cunningham-Cook (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2022)

    Despite FTX’s collapse, a lawsuit linked to the exchange’s investor is trying to force regulators to allow crypto into the retirement market.

  • (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

    Why is AARP boosting Medicare privatization?

    Originally published: The Lever on November 21, 2022 by Matthew Cunningham-Cook (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Nov 23, 2022)

    The advocacy organization is welcoming the for-profit takeover of its members’ national health insurance program—because it earns hundreds of millions as part of the deal.

  • A demonstrator's mask reads "Stop Evictions Save Lives" during a protest in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

    Real Estate industry spends big to crush LA “mansion tax”

    Originally published: The Lever on October 28, 2022 by Aditi Ramaswami (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Oct 31, 2022)

    Corporate real estate interests have come out in full force to try and defeat a ballot measure to hike taxes on multimillion-dollar property sales.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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