In 2024, I exposed how Qatar Foundation International, an education nonprofit run by the Emir of Qatar’s wife, was funding classroom activity in NYC’s public schools. One of their classrooms in Brooklyn hung a map of the Middle East—which completely erased Israel. From there, I went on a months-long pursuit to understand just how much Qatari money was making its way into American life. A new report says the answer could be over $400 billion. You can read all the details in my new story, out now

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Call the filibuster for what is is, a subjective obstacle to democracy.