Barney Frank

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Barney Frank was mostly a groundbreaking and pioneering congressman who happened to be gay and centered that in his public life. Dodd-Frank is one of the most important pieces of.

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If I had $267 billion

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I'm 100% sure I would not be doing this: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos lauded President Trump’s performance in his second term in a new interview with CNBC, coming as the president is facing record-low approval among voters. “I think he is a more mature, more disciplined version of...

NPR Layoffs

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I have my own problems with NPR's news coverage--primarily that it has spent my whole life telling a liberal audience that they should listen to conservatives. But Republicans ending the.

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AI wizards and prophets

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Charles Mann wrote a great book a few years ago, about the debate between techno-optimists ("wizards") and ecological conservationists ("prophets") about how humans should approach scarcity. One reason the book is so valuable is that Mann doesn't presume to solve this ongoing debate: instead he presents...
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