Tech billionaires are pushing for funding to prep for future pandemics. Why not the left?
Science, Tech, Environment
Posted inBuilding Back America
Infrastructure Summer: Bipartisan Bill Boosts Corporate Giants
In broadband and other areas, the corporate dominance that has been an impediment to progress emerges unscathed.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Biden Advisers Ride on Pegasus Spyware
The NSO Group, now part of a Washington Post exposé, has for years enlisted powerful consultants to save its reputation.
Posted inTAP
Plutocrats in Space
Today on TAP: Gone are the days when all Americans could take pride in space travel
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Infrastructure Success Story in Chattanooga
Some of the fastest broadband speeds in the world come from this Tennessee city’s public network. It could be replicated across the country.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Stealing Ur Website
Innovations in journalistic pilferage at the Financial Times
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden Proposes Government Actually Try to Create Broadband Competition
The broadband proposal in the American Jobs Act prioritizes allowing utilities and co-ops to provide a public option to compete with telecom monopolies. This would be a critical step.
Posted inVideos
⏩ Jonathan Guyer on The Majority Report Talks Big Tech to Defense Connection
Watch Prospect Managing Editor Jonathan Guyer discuss the consultant-to-Biden-administration pipeline.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Stopping the Race to the Bottom in Trade Policy
Agribusiness giant Bayer/Monsanto claims that Mexico’s proposed restrictions on the active ingredient in its Roundup herbicide violate the country’s trade agreement with the U.S. Will the Biden administration agree?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace
Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House.