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Best of 2025: Revolving Door Project - The American Prospect
webThis resource covers political corruption and the revolving door between government and industry under the Trump administration. It is tangentially relevant to AI safety governance insofar as regulatory capture and corruption undermine effective oversight of powerful technologies, but it is not directly focused on AI safety.
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This is a year-end roundup from the Revolving Door Project at The American Prospect, highlighting their favorite investigative pieces from 2025 documenting corruption in the Trump administration. The collection focuses on tracking conflicts of interest, regulatory capture, and the erosion of federal institutions. It frames this documentation as groundwork for future reform efforts.
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- •The Revolving Door Project highlights what it calls unprecedented corruption in the second Trump administration, comparing it unfavorably to historical scandals like Teapot Dome and Watergate.
- •The roundup emphasizes tracking and understanding corruption as essential for both immediate resistance and long-term systemic repair.
- •Featured pieces cover topics including corporate influence on the Supreme Court and the broader 'swamp' of conflicts of interest in Trump's D.C.
- •The project frames 2025 as a year of institutional failure and expresses hope for more effective pushback in 2026.
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While we haven’t exactly been surprised by the outright corruption of the first year of the second Trump administration, the gutting of the federal executive and the cowardly acquiescence by political leaders have nonetheless been quite jarring. Looking back, our favorite pieces of this year help us reflect on the failures of 2025, prepare for the onslaught of corruption sure to transpire in 2026, and brace for the real-world impact of Trump’s decimation of the federal workforce. Here’s to next year’s roundup being more hopeful and upbeat due to more effective response from the institutions designed to protect the people from would-be kings.
As the year comes to a close, our staff, contributors, and partners have reflected on the Prospect stories that epitomized 2025.
Read the full Best of 2025 collection.
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