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Lydia DePillis

Harvesting corn silage in Maryland (Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images)

Hundreds of PPP loans went to fake farms in absurd places

Derek Willis, Lydia DePillis
Small Business Storefront in Winter (Getty Images)

How a federal agency excluded thousands of viable businesses from pandemic relief

Lydia DePillis
Steve Bannon, former White House Chief Strategist, attends the media conference Nordiske Mediedager 2019 in Bergen. (Gonzales Photo/Jarle H. Moe/PYMCA-Avalon/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Twitter and YouTube banned Steve Bannon. Apple still gives him millions of listeners

Lydia DePillis
Members of the National Guard and the Washington D.C. police keep a small group of demonstrators away from the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol earlier, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Capitol rioters planned for weeks in plain sight. The police still weren’t ready for their siege

Logan Jaffe, Lydia DePillis, Isaac Arnsdorf, J. David McSwane
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Trump’s deep state legacy: Dozens of political appointees will stay in Biden’s government

Lydia DePillis
Milena Abreu, County Judge, and Victoria Ferrer, County Judge, inspect a Vote-by-Mail ballot for a valid signature as Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board convenes ahead of the November 3rd general election at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department on October 15, 2020 in Doral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The GOP is trying to prevent people from legally fixing errors on their ballots

Dara Lind, Jessica Huseman, Justin Elliott, Isaac Arnsdorf, Lydia DePillis, Ash Ngu, Sally Beauvais
US President Donald Trump smiles during a phone conversation with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto on trade in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on August 27, 2018. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

Robert Lighthizer just blew up 60 years of trade policy. Nobody knows what happens now

Lydia DePillis
Donald Trump; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (Getty/Salon)

The Trump administration says a new bailout program will help 35 million Americans. Will it?

Justin Elliott, Lydia DePillis, Paul Kiel
U.S. President Donald Trump (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

How Trump’s trade war is making lobbyists rich and slamming small businesses

Lydia DePillis
FILE- In this Dec. 19, 2018, file photo packages await delivery inside of a UPS truck in Baltimore. United Parcel Service Inc. reports financial results Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

How Trump’s tariffs are creating jobs — for Canadians

Lydia DePillis
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Companies are using a Depression-era law to escape Trump’s tariffs — and it’s costing them

Lydia DePillis
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Everything you need to play baseball is made in China — and getting hit by Trump’s tariffs

Lydia DePillis
Pink salmon are unloaded from a hold of a salmon seiner in Southeast Alaska Thursday August 7. Pink salmon (humpys) are finally starting to show up in Southeast Alaska waters but salmon seiners and processors say the season is far below predicted catch numbers. While 44,885,000 pinks were harvested in 2007, the number is just approaching the 1 million mark for 2008. Alaska Department Of Fish & Game biologists say the pinks are deep due to cold water and hopefully both the south and the north runs will hit in mid August. (Klas Stolpe/AP Photo)

Bibles but not textbooks: Trump’s tariff exemptions pick winners and losers

Lydia DePillis