The AI industry has a greater need for government influence than anyone else.
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Posted inPolitics
The Post-Trump Republican to Watch (and Watch Out For)
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley suggests a future lane for the GOP that is drastically different from other Republican presidential contenders.
Posted inTAP
The Legacy of 9/11: A Surveillance Society
America now has a witches’ brew of government and corporate surveillance. None of it was necessary.
Posted inTechnology
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
Posted inWorking in America
Labor Day 2026: Record-High Popularity, Record-Low Power for America’s Unions
Wages now constitute the lowest share of the nation’s income since the government began measuring them in 1947.
Posted inTechnology
Another Monopoly Allowed to Stand
Google avoids accountability again, this time in advertising tech. Why do judges bother to find companies guilty of running a monopoly if they’re unwilling to break them up?
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Lawless Fed
The central bank specializes in not following laws meant to restrain Wall Street.
Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: How Trump Lost Cattle Ranchers
The business of raising and processing beef in America has been ground to dust in service of profit for publicly traded behemoths like Walmart.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Vets for AI
Max Rose speaks on behalf of the veterans-focused group VoteVets in the media. He also is a top adviser to the artificial intelligence industry’s main super PAC.
Posted inTechnology
Big Tech Crashes Headlong Into American Democracy
The AI oligarchs thought they could stuff data centers down the throats of the American people. They thought wrong.