Not all our foreign adventures have been crudely about material gain. But this one sure is.
Energy & the Environment
Posted inAmerica and the World
Trump’s Cargo Cult Imperialism in Venezuela
Stealing their oil is lunacy, but that won’t stop him from trying.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Demands for Data Center Moratoriums Surge
Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Why Californians Will Pay $340 More for Electricity Next Year
The state public utility commission is poised to approve a rate of return that critics say overcharges customers by $4.4 billion per year.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Private Equity’s Utility Spending Spree Threatens New Mexico
Two firms are vying for control over much of New Mexico’s energy infrastructure, but consumer advocates are fighting back.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Private Equity Power Play in Minnesota
BlackRock-owned Global Infrastructure Partners and a Canadian pension giant want to buy a Minnesota-based utility. Gov. Tim Walz’s agencies have been in on pushing the deal.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
FEMA’s Years of Living Dangerously
The Trump administration’s determination to force states to shoulder disaster funding burdens guarantees more deaths and destruction.
Posted inAmerica and the World
This Greenland Is Red
The small island nation has one of the largest and most successful portfolios of state-owned companies in the world. What?
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Politics and Policy of AI
On our live show, David talks with Bryan McMahon and Dylan Gyauch-Lewis about the limits and hazards of the current state of artificial intelligence, and what politicians should do about it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
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.
