As access to gambling expands, concerns about addiction among young people have increased.
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Michael Waltz’s Venmo Is Public, and It’s Full of Journalists
The figure who tagged a journalist into a Signal chat about the attack on Yemen also failed to set his Venmo to private, revealing his willingness to engage with reporters of all political stripes.
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Bernie’s ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour Is Organizing, Too
Capitalizing on a surge of Democratic energy, the Sanders team is hiring full-time organizers and pushing supporters toward critical local issues.
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Bubble Trouble
An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Existential Threat of Ultra-Billionaires
A handful of rich guys will burn human society to the ground rather than pay a dime in tax.
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Columbia’s Capitulation, and Wesleyan’s Pushback
Today on TAP: Appeasing dictators only invites more of the same. More university presidents should know that.
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The Blue State Power Index
We reviewed 17 states with Democratic trifectas to see what they did with that power.
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Trump’s Attack on Social Security Backfires
Today on TAP: The requirement of in-person visits and Elon Musk’s fishing expedition into Social Security data have awakened a torpid AARP, docile federal judges—and public opinion.
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Cold War Kids
Apple’s hit show ‘Severance’ was originally about the class struggle; Season 2 stifles that in favor of corporate crisis management.
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Move Fast and Break the Mortgage Market
The chief regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is now also the board chair of both companies. What’s the long game here?
