Even the industry’s biggest tycoons are holding back on political spending, because it might hurt candidates more than it helps.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania
‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.
Posted inTechnology
What Congress Actually Needs to Do About AI: Staff Up
In 1995, Newt Gingrich lobotomized Congress’s technical brain trust. It should be rebuilt.
Posted inEconomic Policy
An AI Bailout Will Be a ‘Which Side Are You On’ Moment
If AI falls, Democrats can build an enduring political majority—but only if they reject handing a lifeline to Altman, Musk, and the rest of the industry.
Posted inTechnology
Silicon Valley Needs Washington After All
The industry that spent 50 years insisting it didn’t need the state has discovered it can’t do without it.
Posted inEconomic Policy
New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded Abundance Movement
The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How CEOs Use a ‘Neutral’ Legislature Group to Indoctrinate State Lawmakers
The National Conference of State Legislatures is a pay-to-play machine for business interests, critics say, not the disinterested policy organization it claims to be.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Corporate Hospitals Bilking Americans as GOP Destroys Health Care
Patients are caught in the middle of a corporate money grab and lawmakers who refuse to regulate.
Posted inTAP
The Complacent Class
The Milken Conference in Los Angeles is designed for the global financial elite. Their thinking about the Iran war is childish.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump Showers Health Care Crooks With Love
His extensive pardons to health care executives convicted of various crimes show that his ‘war on fraud’ in blue states has nothing to do with fraud.