Semafor • Oct 24, 2025
Debatable: Changing Obamacare subsidies
The fight over soon-to-expire enhanced credits has shut down the government.
The fight over soon-to-expire enhanced credits has shut down the government.
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 president is expanding his “armed conflict," authorizing CIA action as he strikes alleged drug boats. His party is behind him.