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

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

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

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

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Banks earn billions by paying depositors as little as possible. Now Wall Street fears AI could disrupt the arrangement.

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

Department of Governmental Efficiency teams are ignoring watchdog requests for information about their access to Americans’ ...

One of Wall Street’s biggest firms just acknowledged that paying depositors fairly could threaten the entire financial system ...

🏦 Banks with higher levels of AI adoption also show a greater proclivity for risky “problem” loans, that is, ones that are ...