How California Politics Became So Blah
It’s Election Day in California, and it raises a meta-question that’s not before the voters as such, but that nonetheless…
One Company May Know Everything About You
A disturbing story at the intersection of innovations in war and our surveillance economy broke last week. Reuters reported on…
AIPAC and Auchincloss
The other day, Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a corporate Democrat who represents one of the most liberal districts in Massachusetts, dredged…
Now There Are Five
I don’t play in prediction markets, but there’s certainly now a non-negligible chance that the Democrats could win control not…
Trump Makes a Bad Student Loan Program Worse
Cory Doctorow has coined a terrific word and concept: enshittification. Doctorow used it primarily to describe how platform monopolies like…
In Massachusetts Today, Uber and Lyft Drivers Went Union
For years, Uber and Lyft have insisted that their drivers are not their employees, and cannot unionize. Their hard-fought position…
Trump Trips Up Trump
Trump’s actions produce some short-run gains for his personalist brand of politics, but as the fall election approaches, they portend…
Tom Steyer’s Problem
Even as Mark Zuckerberg is now funding a pro-Becerra PAC, Steyer lacks the only two endorsements that could actually help…