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David Sirota

Denver

Editor-at-Large at Jacobin

Columnist at The Guardian

Founder and Editor in Chief at The Lever

Founder, @LeverNews; Host, https://t.co/SQJre1meSD; WGA winner/Oscar nominee for #DontLookUp; spouse of @EmilyforCO; Denverite, dad, member of Nuggets Nation.

Articles

  • 1 week ago | jacobin.com | David Sirota

    Corporations are preparing to cite Donald Trump’s trade war as justification for raising prices — just as they previously cited pandemic supply chain slowdowns to raise prices. It’s a familiar tactic: They want us to believe macroeconomic forces mean they have no choice but to fleece us. However, a new Federal Reserve study notes that ever-higher prices have coincided with a sudden increase in corporate profit-taking.

  • 2 weeks ago | levernews.com | David Sirota

    Corporations are preparing to cite Trump’s trade war as justification for raising prices — just as they previously cited pandemic supply chain slowdowns to raise prices. It’s a familiar tactic: They want us to believe macroeconomic forces mean they have no choice but to fleece us. Keep reading for FREE. This is not a paywall. Just sign up below for a free subscription to The Lever to get access to this story and much more.

  • 2 weeks ago | jacobin.com | David Sirota

    “I am a gay woman who is moderately pro-choice — I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal,” the right-wing impresario Bari Weiss told a Federalist Society gathering in 2023. “And that’s OK. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”The assembled conservatives guffawed at hearing the quiet part out loud; in this case, the admission that tax cuts for the rich have been the glue holding the American right together.

  • 4 weeks ago | levernews.com | David Sirota |Freddy Brewster |Luke Goldstein

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  • 4 weeks ago | jacobin.com | David Sirota

    President Donald Trump’s choice for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) director just had his six-figure debt paid off by campaign donors whose firms have significant, often contentious business before the tax agency he would lead, according to federal records reviewed by the Lever.

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