Along with federal law enforcement agencies, private companies are now surveilling opponents of Big Tech.
Economic Policy
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Crypto Democrats Are Ghosting the Industry
The Senate punted a vote on the crypto industry’s top priority to September, which doesn’t bode well for the industry’s legislative agenda or their key alliance with certain moderate Democrats.
Posted inPolitics
Why Have Less Than One Percent of American Socialists Joined DSA?
Socialism has not been this popular in America in at least a century, but how it’s defined, and who defines it, matters.
Posted inPolitics
El-Sayed’s Challenge: Overcoming ‘Otherness’
If the economy is the issue, he can win Michigan in November.
Posted inBooks
The Class Struggle in Your Wallet
A new book about the meaning of money argues for how to use finance to create a more equitable economy.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The AI Bailout Could Be Baked Into the AI Bubble
Private credit companies are key owners of AI-related assets. Many of their parent private equity firms own life insurers that are dumping grounds for bad loans—and subject to state bailouts.
Posted inPolitics
Abdul El-Sayed Lost in 2018. It Set Him Up for 2026.
I covered Abdul El-Sayed when he ran for governor and lost. Here’s how he and the landscape have changed.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Louis Brandeis: The Empiricist
Louis Brandeis believed that facts could change lives and break excessive power where it accumulated.
Posted inTAP
Trump’s New Fed Chair Deserts Trump
Under Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve refuses to cut interest rates and may soon raise them.
