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

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 ...

As David Sacks pushed Trump to reject AI safeguards, his venture capital firm invested in AI startups and is now raising a ...

A landmark settlement confronts decades of PFAS pollution — but not the corporate system that keeps moving the toxic waste elsewhere. This story was published in collaboration with the Investigative ...