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The Majority Report • Oct 24, 2025
Trump’s immigration enforcers just inked a multimillion-dollar deal for AI-driven social media surveillance software used by the Israeli military and the Pentagon.
Corruption in American politics rarely looks like a suitcase of cash anymore (although it still sometimes happens the old-fashioned way). It’s subtler and more pervasive—a system so omnipresent we hardly notice we’re inside it. To understand how we got here, Current Affairs spoke with David Sirota, an award-winning journalist and founder of The Lever: an entirely reader-supported investigative outlet.
The restrictions, aimed at pressuring the Kremlin over the war in Ukraine, mark a major change in Washington’s policy.