A bipartisan bill could lower electricity costs and speed the green energy transition by targeting utilities.
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How to Govern the Pacing of the AI Frontier
Big AI’s call for an antitrust exemption is a ruse. Here’s the right way to structure AI safety talks until we have real leadership in Congress and the White House.
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Six Overlooked Reasons California’s Community NEWS Act Is ‘A Big Deal’
The new law offers newsrooms tax credits for retaining and hiring journalists. Its backers hope it can do much more.
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The AI Alignment That Can Save Us
To level the playing field between AI moguls and the rest of us, we need political action.
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Is Neoliberalism to Blame for America’s Health Care Woes?
Horror stories about private equity-owned hospitals are part of a deeper trend, a new book argues.
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The Secret Monopoly Making Everything More Expensive
A two-decade fight with monopoly power in the payment system has arrived at a moment of truth, boiling down to one simple question: Will the courts bless price-fixing? Let’s hope not. Last week, Demand Progress, American Economic Liberties Project, Consumer Reports, and Small Business Majority asked a federal court to reject a proposed antitrust settlement […]
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Booming Oil Profits Show Why Policymakers Can’t “Wait and See” on Gas Prices
The latest data points to a refining market power problem that will endure even after the Strait reopens.
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The Washington Monthly Was Right About Egg Prices
Much of the press believed the 2022-25 spike in egg prices was mere supply and demand. Now that the industry has settled with DOJ and state AGs, our suspicions proved warranted.
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How Trump Screwed Rural Americans to Help Musk Become a Trillionaire
His corruption of Biden’s broadband program boosted SpaceX’s historic IPO.
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How to Contain the Oligarchs
Rule by the rich may look inevitable, but history shows it’s not. From ancient Greece to New Deal America to today’s Hungary, democracies have found ways to separate private fortunes from public power.
