Narrated audio editions of our most consequential investigations — federal fraud, governance failure, and the officials responsible. Every claim in every episode traces to a primary source: court filings, inspector-general reports, and the government’s own audits. The fully sourced print version of each episode is one click away below it.
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https://civicintelligence.news/podcast.xmlView XMLAs Central Park hit 100°F, Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) asked New Yorkers to set their AC to 78 — while the same government mandates electric cars, all-electric buildings, and heat pumps onto a grid the NYISO says is running on its thinnest reliability margin in memory. The physics of the grid vs. the politics of the mandate.
Read the sourced story →The federal government made an estimated $186 billion in improper payments in FY2025 — roughly $3 trillion since 2003, per the GAO's own auditors, plus up to $521 billion a year lost to fraud. Where the money goes, program by program, and the officials who presided over the biggest breaches.
Read the sourced story →Minnesota's Board of Pardons — Gov. Tim Walz (D), AG Keith Ellison (D), and the chief justice — voted 3-0 to erase Tou Lue Vang's child-sexual-conduct conviction a week before ICE was set to deport him. DHS called it 'madness'; the victim asked for mercy.
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