As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
Max Moran
Max Moran is a senior fellow at the Revolving Door Project.
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Choosing the People Over the Billionaires
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The Real Entitlement Crisis: Good Reporting Is in Short Supply
The preferred journals of the power elite peddle the myth of pending Social Security catastrophe, which is catastrophically wrong.
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Biden Is Losing Not With a Bang but a Whimper
Where’s Dark Brandon when you need him?
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Durbin Must Enforce His SCOTUS Investigation Subpoenas
The Court’s own precedents show that its corruption scandals are exactly why Congress has subpoena power.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Supreme Court’s Objectivity Theater
The Court wrote a new ethics code for itself. It’s all but meaningless.