For the past six months, I’ve been trying to figure out why the tech industry – and in particular crypto – have been pouring so much money into political races.

The answer is bigger, and much more wide-ranging, than we think, and it appears in the New Yorker today.

newyorker.com/magazine/2024/… As the story explains, this is:

“the culmination of a strategy that had begun more than a decade earlier to turn Silicon Valley into the most powerful political operation in the nation. … It is likely that in the coming decades these efforts will affect everything from Presidential races to which party controls Congress and how antitrust and artificial intelligence are regulated.”

For the last month, I’ve been trying to figure out why New York and Seattle fared so different in the pandemic. The result came out today in @NewYorker:
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/… Seattle was the first epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak. But by mid-April, New Yorkers were dying at six times the rate of Washington State residents.

1/ Why are so many people so angry? And what can we do about it? I spent much of the last year reporting a story for @theatlantic on who is to blame for all of the fury coursing through our politics and our personal lives. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… 2/ The first surprise: I went into this project thinking of anger as a negative emotion. But when I looked at the social science, I learned that anger can be a powerful force for good.