New Yorker
The software-inspired logic of scale is bringing a copy-paste sensibility to San Francisco, America’s techiest city (New Yorker)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 11:41The Rise of the Internet's Creative Middle Class (New Yorker)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 06/16/2022 - 10:43The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees
The campaign against Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to serve on the Supreme Court was spearheaded by a new conservative dark-money group that was created in 2020: the American Accountability Foundation (AAF). An explicit purpose of the AAF—a politically active, tax-exempt nonprofit charity that doesn’t disclose its backers—is to prevent the approval of all Biden Administration nominees. The AAF’s approach represents a new escalation in partisan warfare, and underscores the growing role that secret spending has played in deepening the polarization in Washington.