The AI industry has a greater need for government influence than anyone else.
Revolving Door Project
Posted inEconomic Policy
Cracking Down on Big Insurance in … Oklahoma?
State Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a crackdown on Allstate and State Farm.
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 inEnergy and the Environment
FEMA’s Summer Snowpocalypse
The Trump administration’s partisan warfare leaves the emergency management agency skidding into bureaucratic snowbanks and confronting angry Democratic lawmakers.
Posted inWorking in America
After Industry Request, OSHA Moves to Roll Back Ladder Safety Regulation
There’s a simple way to prevent most workplace falls off ladders. Corporations don’t want to do it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Not All Nepo Babies Are Trumps
DSCC chair’s 22-year-old son strikes it big in pursuit of further gamifying finance.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Economic Hit Men for Gambling Apps
Former solicitor general Elizabeth Prelogar is writing justifications for prediction market gambling apps, joining several Biden administration colleagues defending the industry.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Lessons From an Arctic Gas Pipe Dream
Alaska LNG is an instructive failure in political imagination.
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 inPolitics
Can Democrats Learn From the 2024 Loss?
The 2024 DNC autopsy reveals a party unable to process its past, or suggest a future.