FEBRUARY 5, 2025 (info@prospect.org)

| On the Prospect website |
L.A. Times Owner Has Financial Motivations for Boosting RFK Jr.Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s biotech firm is preparing three applications needing approval from the Food and Drug Administration. BY DAVID DAYEN |
King Musk’s Government Purge Hits a SnagBefore Elon Musk can exercise authoritarian power, he must purge the federal bureaucracy. But federal workers aren’t playing ball. BY RYAN COOPER |
The Musk-Bezos War on Collective BargainingWhen Biden’s NLRB began to restore workers’ rights, the world’s richest men moved to shut down the NLRB altogether. BY HAROLD MEYERSON |
Pete Hegseth’s Venmo: Defense Contractors, UnitedHealth Execs, Fox, and FriendsThe VA may be the next government agency to go dark, if Pete Hegseth’s digital Rolodex is anything to go by. BY DANIEL BOGUSLAW & LUKE GOLDSTEIN |



