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EDITOR’S NOTE: Opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of The Daily Independent. This piece originally appeared in The Toledo Blade.

Project Censored's Top 10 Stories Show Just One Pattern Dominating All Others This Year

The real causes of inflation, Gates Foundation media investments, the CIA and Julian Assange, ALECs push to preserve its influence networks in state legislation, and surveillance advertising are the next five stories on the list.

Ticketing debacles involving Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny have led to calls for parent company Live Nation’s stranglehold on live entertainment to be broken

As chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Sen. Sherrod Brown sounded the alarm on cryptocurrency more than a year before the meltdown of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.

Fossil fuel subsidies, wage theft, EPA risk reports, congressional conflicts of interest, and dark, dark money: Concentration of corporate wealth and power distorts everything we see — and dont see — in the world around us every day.

Fighting for a sane measure for educators.

One pattern dominates all the others: The distortions of wealthy media tycoons

Wage theft, withheld EPA reports, and more of the stories that deserved more coverage this year

The political action committee raised $70 million to support candidates and causes since its formation in 2004, according to staff.