Zeteo's senior political correspondent traveled to Chicago for a first-hand look at the president's militarized crackdown on one of America’s great cities.
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.