# OpenTheBooks

> Transparency revolutionizes U.S. public policy and politics.

- **Platform:** substack
- **Category:** Politics
- **Subscribers:** 111K
- **Last updated:** 2026-10-14
- **URL:** https://openthebooks.substack.com
- **Profile:** https://newsletterinsights.io/newsletter/openthebooks

## Recent Posts

- [Minnesota Daycare Scandal: The Power of Transparency and Citizen Journalism ](https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power)
- [Accounting Check: What Could “Medicare for All” Cost Taxpayers?](https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/accounting-check-what-could-medicare)
- [A Big Win for Military Families on America’s 250th ](https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/a-big-win-for-military-families-on)
- [Fiscal Doomsday: $193.6 Trillion in Unfunded Medicare and Social Security Promises](https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/fiscal-doomsday-1936-trillion-in)
- [Feds Struggled to Claw Back Covid Fraud while Schemers Put Down Payments on Yachts, Lamborghinis](https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/feds-struggled-to-claw-back-covid)
- [My Endowment Is Larger Than Yours: Elite Universities Bill Taxpayers While Growing Cash Reserves](https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/my-endowment-is-larger-than-yours)
- [Feds Spent $27 Million on Minnesota Somali Community Since FY2021](https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/feds-spent-27-million-on-minnesota)
- [Law Firms Pocket Millions Helping Nonprofits, Bureaucrats Expand Environmental Regulations](https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/law-firms-pocket-millions-helping)
- [Federal Government Spending $20,474 Per Person, 98 Times More than in 1916](https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/federal-government-spending-20474)
- [Scoring the Scorekeepers: A Review of CBO’s Legislative Forecasting](https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/scoring-the-scorekeepers-a-review)