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Amid The Shutdown, Flood Insurance Profiteers Are Riding The Wave
Private insurers like Neptune Insurance Holdings are cashing in on the shutdown and pushing to privatize the National Flood Insurance Program, despite risks to homeowners.
Two killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon; 41 patients in critical condition evacuated from Gaza; U.S. considers implementing a "Gaza Humanitarian Belt”
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Congress floats through a lazy shutdown
Compared to past funding fights, there is little urgency or real effort to end this one.
Debatable: Changing Obamacare subsidies
The fight over soon-to-expire enhanced credits has shut down the government.
Bipartisan crypto bill faces fresh headwinds in Senate
Crypto CEOs have met with senators in an effort to salvage bipartisan talks.
David Sirota Explains How Money Rewrote American Democracy
Corruption in American politics rarely looks like a suitcase of cash anymore (although it still sometimes happens the old-fashioned way). It’s subtler and more pervasive—a system so omnipresent we hardly notice we’re inside it. To understand how we got here, Current Affairs spoke with David Sirota, an award-winning journalist and founder of The Lever: an entirely reader-supported investigative outlet.
India, China expected to curb Russian oil imports following US sanctions
The restrictions, aimed at pressuring the Kremlin over the war in Ukraine, mark a major change in Washington’s policy.