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Pentagon's Bloated, Opaque and Undisciplined Budget Undermines our National Security
Our investigators exposed systemic problems with contracting, grantmaking and tracking expenses
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: HONORING ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI’S LEGACY
This week marked the one-year anniversary of the passing of Open the Books founder Adam Andrzejewski.
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Mamdani's "Affordability" Agenda Could be Costly
Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist likely to be the next mayor of New York City, won the June democratic primary with the promise of…
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Top-Paid LA Lifeguards Earned Up To $510,283 In 2021
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How Fact-Finding Fauci Led To My Cancellation At Forbes
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EXCLUSIVE: As private citizen, Dr. Fauci received $15 million taxpayer-funded security detail
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Anthony Fauci Defended NIH Culture Of Secrecy: The $325M Third-Party Royalty Complex... Now We Know More Details.
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Taxpayer Funded Censorship: How Government is Using Your Tax Dollars to Silence Your Voice
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DELETE, DELETE, DELETE, DELETE
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Behind UCLA’s Funding Freeze: Anti-Israel Professors, Radical Grantmaking and Major DEI Investments
Earlier in August the Trump administration announced it would close the federal funding spigot to a major part of the University of California system…
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IMPACT: PAUL, ERNST ADVANCE ROYALTY TRANSPARENCY ACT, ACKNOWLEDGE OPEN THE BOOKS
The bill would cast sunlight on the multibillion-dollar government royalty complex.
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Note to Congress on DEI in the Sciences: The Call is Coming from Inside the House
In his address to a joint session of Congress earlier this year, President Trump promised to "conquer the frontiers of science." Many journalists and…
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40 Months? The Eternal FOIA Backlog
Wait times for public records have become so long they undercut the accountability FOIA is meant to provide.
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Trump White House Payroll Shrinks 29% Year-Over-Year
The administration created new roles on criminal pardons, energy production, and more.
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Baywatch Pay Watch: Half-million-dollar checks, six-figure overtime for LA lifeguards
They may not be rich enough to hassle the Hoff yet, but they’re getting there.
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Elon is out. Excessive spending is not.
DOGE's survival is up to us.
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