EXCLUSIVE: We uncovered a secret corporate scheme to raise grocery prices. We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. The scary part? It’s not just online. It’s in physical grocery stores, too. Our months-long investigation with Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative […]
Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives. In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP. We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy. Many thanks to the Bologna […]
A billionaire put $75 million into the Trump family crypto company. His SEC probe was dropped. Binance helped them make a crypto coin and facilitated a $2 billion deal. The founder was pardoned. The Trumps are using crypto to enable brazen corruption at the highest level. —– More Perfect Union […]
Sam Altman wants to make a deal with us: he’ll give us a utopian future, if we give him… everything. $750 billion in investment. As much electricity as the population of India. And all of our data. And if he’s wrong he’ll still profit off of what comes next. —– […]
Ground beef prices are up nearly 13%, but American cattle ranchers told us that they just took a $17 billion hit. And every year, nearly 20,000 family farms disappear. We investigated the corporate cartel who’s profiting off the crisis in American beef production. —– More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, […]
Tyson is about to fire 50% of Lexington, Nebraska’s workforce in one of the largest plant closures in decades. We talked to experts, workers and local residents who have a radical idea to save American beef production: government takeover of the plant. —– More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit […]
Taxpayers in Texas and Virginia are subsidizing data centers by handing out over $1 billion a year to tech companies. More than 30 states subsidize data centers and Big Tech with massive tax breaks. And while CEOs have promised thousands of jobs, they haven’t materialized. —– More Perfect Union is […]
Trump has long targeted Chicago, calling it the “most dangerous city in the world.” But homicides were down 30% last year, even as Trump cut crime prevention grants. What’s making crime fall? Investments in community-led violence prevention programs. —– More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit newsroom whose mission is […]
A full 10% of NYC Trump voters turned around and voted for Zohran Mamdani. So we went to talk to them. These voters are done with the status quo. One New Yorker told us: “As Americans, we can realize it’s not Republican versus Democrat. It’s more of like a class […]
We took a deep dive into Trump’s tariffs, and his real approach became painfully clear.Make tariff threats, extract money from companies willing to pay, then grant exceptions to those who play the game.It’s another lucrative scam for a wildly corrupt president. —– More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit newsroom […]
