David Dayen

The Republican plan to more than double premiums is gone, but the insurance will get worse, and the poor will pay more.

The Trump administration is readying an executive order preempting constraints on AI. It could become a much more wide-ranging deregulatory tool.

It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.

The median age of a homebuyer right now is 59, and even for a first-time homebuyer, it’s 40. Nobody really wants to be in debt until they die.

A legal office in the White House, at the behest of Office of Management and Budget director and Project 2025 architect Russ Vought, has decided to redefine the word “earnings” in order to bankrupt the largely dormant Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

On Tuesday, the soaring cost of power was a key factor in several races, including those in Georgia, Virginia, and New Jersey. Democrats have a plan that can match their economic populist rhetoric.

Most of the conservative justices seemed skeptical of the argument that the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, which allows a president in an emergency to “regulate importation and exportation,” confers worldwide, unlimited tariff authority.

The win, combined with several mid-cycle surprises, has weakened Trump’s shield against accountability for his unpopular reign, although the Supreme Court really holds the key to whether we’ll have something approaching legitimate elections next year.

On a political level, Democrats have succeeded in painting Republicans as mean and unfeeling stewards of American decline. But Trump may win on policy nonetheless, as a gang of Democrats prepares to squander their leverage based on a vague assurance.

The Chamber of Progress’s campaign to promote fair use, which they have created a campaign around called “Generate and Create,” comes as at least three of the nonprofit organization’s past or current backers are being sued over copyright claims.