One in four federal lobbyists is working to advance artificial intelligence
The army that is quietly reshaping your future arrived in Washington wearing suits, not uniforms. It does not carry guns. It carries checkbooks. And in the past three years, its ranks have grown larger and faster than almost any invasion force the capital has ever seen. More than 3,500 federal lobbyists — one out of…
Let’s consider the obvious question Albert Einstein asked 77 years ago
Albert Einstein originally published this article in May 1949, in the first issue of Monthly Review. It was subsequently republished in May 1998 to commemorate the magazine‘s fiftieth year. Besides the world-famous physicist, prominent Americans who identified as socialists or advocated for socialist principles include labor leaders A. Philip Randolph, Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones (Mary Harris…
Trump’s incompetent Medicare agency exposed Social Security numbers
In the latest digital misfire of a troubled federal rollout, the very agency charged with safeguarding the health data of millions has instead lit a quiet fuse beneath the financial identities of the nation’s doctors. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, under the banner of President Trump’s push to modernize health care technology, inadvertently…
Corrupt power is rewriting the boundaries of dissent
By James J. Devine A thread runs through the events of this moment—thin, tensile, easy to miss if you glance too quickly. But pull on it, and a pattern emerges, binding together courtrooms in North Dakota, oil fields in Ecuador, social media platforms in California, and President Donald Trump’s unprovoked war in the Middle East.…
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