The DOJ filed a lawsuit to break up Live Nation’s monopoly over the live entertainment industry. Luke Goldstein breaks down how Live Nation, through a 2010 merger with Ticketmaster, gobbled up various segments of the market for near total control. prospect.org/power/2024-05-…

There isn't data to back up all the oil & gas corporations' claims about cleaner production. But regardless ~ “What we need is a transformation to a clean energy system—it’s not enough to make fossil fuel production marginally less polluting.” prospect.org/environment/20…

A poll published last week in The Guardian details that nearly half of Democrats think the nation is in a recession. This revelation doesn’t bode well for Biden, who has his own shortcomings effectively communicating his policies. From Harold Meyerson: prospect.org/blogs-and-news…

President Biden’s decision to quadruple tariffs on made-in-China EVs and other products drew the usual flak from the free-trade blob despite the policies aimed at safeguarding American prosperity in the long term by bolstering stateside production. prospect.org/blogs-and-news…

The White House is “still assessing” whether the red line had been crossed. What else is there to assess? Do they think they could be someone else’s tanks? prospect.org/blogs-and-news…

The story of the Biden admin and the war in Gaza as Joe fiddles ▶️ 'Biden makes some timid requests for Israeli forces to cool it a little bit; Netanyahu spits in his face, blows up another hospital, and then demands more free weapons.' The American Prospect prospect.org/blogs-and-news…

Catch up with The Prospect’s recent Weekly Roundup, where ryan cooper and b-boy bouiebaisse discuss SCOTUS Justice Alito’s majority opinion that endorses partisan gerrymandering even in cases that have racial implications. prospect.org/videos/2024-05…

The Impartial Jurist Tom Tomorrow The American Prospect prospect.org/power/2024-05-…

.Tom Tomorrow’s latest cartoon takes on the flag controversy surrounding SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito. prospect.org/power/2024-05-…

Republicans are seeking to weaken the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which allows people to register to vote at their local DMV, by introducing their own act to amend it and drumming up baseless claims about nonexistent voter threats. prospect.org/politics/2024-…

The more than $5 trillion pumped into the American economy from COVID relief bills provided a financial lifeline to cash-strapped public institutions, like schools and public transit. But now that money is running out. prospect.org/politics/2024-…

The latest high-profile dispute with OpenAI, in which it allegedly modeled its AI voice-powered assistant tool after Scarlett Johansson, demonstrates the pitfalls of an unregulated AI market and the threat it poses towards creative labor. From Hassan Ali Kanu: prospect.org/justice/2024-0…

No company should be big and powerful enough to control 80% of a market, especially one that so many Americans turn to for joy and entertainment.

The “best gouger in the world,” as CNBC’s Jim Cramer called Live Nation, may soon get broken up.
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NEW: 'The dispute between OpenAI & ScarJo is a neat distillation of the cluelessness, soft bigotry & apathy with which the titans of Big Tech conduct themselves as they develop perhaps the most world-altering, & dangerous, technologies in history.'
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The GOP is trying to fearmonger about nonexistent threats to our elections in order to undermine the National Voter Registration Act. Gabrielle Gurley reports: prospect.org/politics/2024-…

Americans aren't committing voter fraud in large numbers and neither are noncitizens, but for the GOP there's value in seeding disinformation among voters. My latest The American Prospect:
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The National Voter Registration Act—aka the motor voter law—is under Republican attack amid the creative invention of noncitizen voting, writes Gabrielle Gurley.
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In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed more than $5 billion in desperately needed COVID relief funding. Robert Kuttner makes the case for how President Biden should campaign on the possibility of renewed public funding. prospect.org/politics/2024-…

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The Open AI/ScarJo thing is more insidious the more you think about it, writes Hassan Ali Kanu. It's a labor displacement and identity theft story that's also about sexism and the move fast and break things ethos of Silicon Valley.
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