Money Trail
Elliott Negin, Derrick Z. Jackson, Rocky Kistner, Randy Rieland, Dean Baker, Jonathan KingTracking the intersection of money, politics and power.
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Trail Notes
Donald Trump shows his new imaginary best friend, George Washington, around his imaginary ballroom. (Illustration: Truth Social)
Trump’s new bestie
Donald Trump played golf last Saturday for the 127th time of his second term. But he...
Tearing Down the Wall Between Church and State in Texas
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, an evangelical Christian, allegedly violated the Ten Commandments. (Photo: Gage Skidmore)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is a big proponent of the Ten Commandments—at least when it comes to telling oth...
On the Money: The Battle of the ‘Crime’ Families: Trump Versus Biden
Illustration: Elliott Negin/ChatGPT
Most Americans recognize that Donald Trump and his family are stealing money hand over fist every day. But they are not as outraged as they should be because many mistakenly believe everyone does it.
A...
Gone Fishing!
Money Trail Executive Editor Elliott Negin and Senior Editor Jonathan King on their fantasy fishing trip. (Photo illustration: Elliott Negin/ChatGPT)
We’re not really going fishing, but Senior Editor Jonathan King and I are taking a break...
Trail Notes
Multimillionaire Mehmet Oz, Trump’s Medicare administrator, says the subsidy that lowered Medicare drug premiums “is no longer needed.” (Photo: White House)
Messing with Medicare
We’ve all heard Donald Trump’s “affordability” shtick,...
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A former editor at NPR, American Journalism Review, Nuclear Times and Public CItizen magazine and contributor to HuffPost, Negin is the executive editor and cofounder of Money Trail on Substack.
2021 Scripps Howard winner for Excellence in Opinion writing and 2021 winner in both Social Justice & Sports commentary from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. 2021 winner in Teen Nonfiction in the Ben Franklin Awards.
Independent journalist, board member Society of Environmental Journalists. Ex: CIR, ABC News, PBS Frontline, Marketplace public radio, NRDC OnEarth Contributor to HuffPost, Undark magazine, The Revelator.
former journalist in DC
Senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, dog lover, and new resident of Astoria, Oregon.
Money Trail’s senior editor, was a Center for Investigative Reporting staff member, an ABC News field producer, a Seattle Weekly news editor, and a Pacific Northwest public radio reporter. The author of two books on the environment.
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