"When people hanker for the good old days and glamorize the past, they're almost always wrong. By most metrics, life is better than it was in the past. Global poverty rates are lower, infant mortality and life expectancies are better, and education rates are much higher."
Jeff Bezos talking about his climate announcement at #ClimateWeekNYC —>
Karla Jurvetson, one of the Democratic Party's single biggest donors, has talked to her network about finding and funding a primary challenger to Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema in 2024.
@PuckNews One possible 2024 presidential candidate, Ron DeSantis, is appearing at a fundraiser for a possible GOP primary rival, Tom Cotton, next month.
Deductions, philanthropy and other perfectly legal ways to slash someone’s tax bill.
Still amazing to see the numbers in print.
If you want to know how ProPublica got this massive leak, good luck. They’re not saying.
They understandably want to protect their sources, but the tradeoff (which I’m sure they thoughtfully weighed) is that it makes it harder for the public to assess the work.
For the last six years, I’ve been writing about how the Bill Gateses & Charles Kochs of the world are deploying their billions into soft power that we should unpack, debate and report the hell out of.
If you care about inequality, you need to care about the outrageously wealthy.
I’ll have more to say over the next few months, but in the meantime I’m going to begin narrating an email about this stratosphere of billionaires.
I think you’re going to find what we’re building to be pretty special.
Bill and Melinda Gates say they will “continue our work together at the foundation.”
But this obviously will be very complicated!
This is obviously a sad and personal story.
But given that Bill and Melinda Gates co-run one of the — if not THE — world’s most powerful and most venerated philanthropies, this is a massive story with enormous implications for the public at large.
I think my Venture for America story is getting significantly more play today than it did when it was published in 2019.
Then, it was a cute piece about a political neophyte. Now, it and the NYT’s piece are badly needed scrutiny on the front runner to be the next mayor of NYC.