Hundreds of billions in appropriated spending has been withheld, with dire consequences. Government funding shouldn’t be derailed like this.
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Sugar Daddies
From the Havemeyer Sugar Trust to Allen Dulles to Jeffrey Epstein, the MAGA billionaire Fanjul family are the welfare barons of all time.
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Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry
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.
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In Trump’s D.C., the Swamp Runneth Over
This is by far the most corrupt administration in American history.
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What Trump Learned From Silicon Valley
Before DOGE’s lawbreaking spree, there was ‘blitzscaling.’
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DOJ Insider Blows the Whistle on Pay-to-Play Antitrust Corruption
Roger Alford, former number two at the Justice Department Antitrust Division, speaks out. Here’s what was important in what he said.
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Report: 1 in 3 Big Tech Enforcement Cases Dropped by Trump Administration
Tech and crypto firms have spent $1.2 billion during and since the 2024 election, and they are reaping the benefits.
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Plenty of Room for Lawmakers to Profit Under Proposed Stock Ban
A better way to stop politicians’ insider trading is by allowing them to invest only in plain-vanilla mutual funds, Wall Street insiders told the Prospect.
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Silicon Valley Godzilla vs. Wall Street Mothra
The only two sectors thriving in Trump’s economy are increasingly sparring with each other.
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Washington’s Football Fantasy Comes True
The city council passes the first of two approvals necessary for a new Washington Commanders stadium. But the numbers from their own studies still don’t add up.