Welcome to Muckrakers.Today

One rogue at a time. With receipts.

I started American Muckrakers with Col Moe Davis in 2021, to do something simple and unfashionable: tell the truth about powerful people who count on you not paying attention. Today we are taking that further. I want to introduce you to Muckrakers.Today, and to a brand new series we are calling the Rogues’ Gallery.

Here is the idea. Every week, we put one rogue under the light. A politician, an oligarch, a fixer, a fraud. We lay out what they did, who got hurt, and where the money went. All of it sourced. All of it linked. No spin, no both-sides cowardice, and no asking permission from the people we are reporting on.

The muckrakers of a century ago did not have podcasts or a website. They had a notebook, a printing press, and a spine. We have the first two covered. The third one is on me.

Our first rogue: Vladimir Putin