The Biggest Pro-AI Super Pac Network Didn’t Really Impact the Midterms
Leading the Future, backed by Silicon Valley’s biggest billionaires, had a war chest of $100 million and an aggressive stance against AI regulation. All of it didn’t add up to much on Tuesday night.
Trump’s billionaire-blue collar coalition has been smashed by class politics | Aditya Chakrabortty
As tech bosses get richer and ordinary Americans struggle, Democrats put the case against the US’s grotesque unfairness – and voters responded Remember the “vibe shift”? Just last year, columnists and corporate boardrooms alike declared that the second…
Top Democrats are fighting a billionaire tax in California. Their voters are on the other side |
The unprecedented measure has enormous potential nationwide. The clash exposes the party’s corporate-progressive divideMidway through this summer, a high-quality poll found that Democrats in California were overwhelmingly in favor of the upcoming ballot…
Billionaire tax: how a union leader’s ‘crazy’ idea became the defining issue of California’s midterms
It was an ambitious notion – now Californians will vote on a one-time 5% billionaire tax, and state’s super rich have pulled out all the stops in oppositionOne year ago, the idea of a billionaire tax in California was still in its infancy.It wasn’t yet…
Review: You Can See Everything blurs the view of Elizabeth Holmes’ deceit
Elizabeth Holmes has some people falling for her act all over again.
Silicon Valley parents want the tech they help build out of their childrens’ schools
Both private and public schools in tech regions are limiting the use of tech in classrooms. But will low-income districts be able to follow suit?German Gil spends most of his waking hours looking at screens. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in…
Americans, this is your chance to slap down the tech broligarchs
The midterms will be a referendum on the GOP’s alignment with tech overlords over the public they’re meant to serveWelcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America’s political future. Last week,…