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January 20, 2026
Support for Data Centers in Shor Supply
No, data centers aren’t going to cut all of our taxes.
January 16, 2026
The Technobabble Defense
How companies cry “innovation” to defend their lawbreaking
December 23, 2025 | The American Prospect
House Democrats Squander the Opportunity of Trumpian Corruption
Democrats have a golden opportunity to be the anti-corruption party, but the House caucus is not seizing it.
December 18, 2025 | The American Prospect
Dylan Gyauch-Lewis Toni Aguilar Rosenthal
Op-Ed Ethics in GovernmentFinancial RegulationRevolving Door
Another Biden Financial Regulator Spins Through the Revolving Door
It’s hard times at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the three principal bank regulators in the country, along with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve. All three, plus other financial institution regulators at the National Credit Union Administration and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, have been gutted to varying degrees over the first year of Trump 2.0.
December 17, 2025
Newsletter Corporate CrackdownEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationIndependent Agencies
Cutting Crooks Some Slack
The administrative state’s Kafkaesque transmogrification into the mafia state
November 19, 2025 | The American Prospect
Henry Burke Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
Op-Ed Economic MediaFintechLarry SummersMedia AccountabilityRevolving Door
Companies Are Trying to Hide Their Ties to Larry Summers
Some fintech and energy startups haven’t announced that Summers is leaving; they just took him off their websites.
October 31, 2025 | The American Prospect
Op-Ed BankingConsumer ProtectionEconomic PolicyExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationIndependent Agencies
Making Banking Supervision Suck Again
Willfully blinding bank examiners could send us hurtling to yet another financial crisis.
October 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris
Pivoting to the right didn’t work in 2024. It won’t work now.
October 08, 2025 | The Sling
The Hollowness of Growth as an Objective
Growth is responsible for the widely shared prosperity ushered in across much of the world in the twentieth century, leading to declines in infant mortality, longer life expectancy, and some of the best standards of living in human history. But growth has also driven mass deforestation, soaring income inequality, and the erosion of democracy as power became increasingly concentrated. When a handful of companies control local television stations, it’s easier for a president with authoritarian tendencies to punish his perceived enemies. Acknowledging that duality and seeking balance is different than monomaniacally pursuing economic growth or degrowth.
October 05, 2025 | Common Dreams
Musk’s xAI Is Showing Us Exactly Why We Need Public Interest Lawsuits
When powerful corporations are able to completely circumvent basic democratic accountability, public interest lawsuits are a final backstop to protect the community’s well-being.
October 02, 2025
Don’t Listen to Ezra Klein- Annul BigTech & Democrats' Marriage
While supporters of abundance tend to center it on discussions of housing, the Klein-Thompson brand of abundance has always included a healthy dose of techno-optimism.
September 23, 2025 | The American Prospect
Op-Ed Artificial IntelligenceConsumer ProtectionExecutive BranchIndependent AgenciesRevolving DoorTech
Ted Cruz Attempts to Exempt Big Tech From the Law
The Texas senator has introduced a bill allowing any AI company a streamlined path around regulations.
September 05, 2025 | The American Prospect
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.
September 04, 2025
All About Abundance
As They Gather in D.C., Abundance Liberals’ Choice of Friends Speaks Volumes