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The campaign contributions of billionaires has grown dramatically from .6% of the total in the year 2000 to 19% in 2024 as reported by the New York Times on Monday. For every dollar donated by billionaires to a Democratic candidate or committee, five dollars are spent on the Republican side. They are buying deregulation and favored tax status among other things, from a government that is as corrupt and venal as many of them are. In substack today, Paul Krugman writes about why the...

Anthropic wants assurances that its products won’t be used for fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans. This has enraged Trump officials. As a result, early this month Pete Hegseth banned the use of Claude, not only within his department but also by contractors that do business with his department. Writes Paul Krugman on substack today, “Think of it as the flip side of crony capitalism: while throwing taxpayer dollars at companies it considers friends — especially because...

In Sunday’s letter, Heather Cox Richardson provides a cogent history of how we got to the mess we’re now in. It’s the logical outcome of two generations who have been sold and bought into the peculiar myth of U.S. cowboy individualism. The myth rose following the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. The idea of white men acting for freedom and justice on their own, unhampered by government, became the guiding image for the rising right wing. Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan...