David Dayen

Amazon's chief lobbyist fighting a delivery worker protection bill in New York City recently endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani is Jessica Schumer, the daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), according to public lobbying records and three sources with knowledge of the situation.

The studio is alleging that the state attorneys general challenge to the merger with Warner Bros. is all about CNN, and that they’ll leave Hollywood if they don’t get their way.

Here’s what’s happening in Florida and across the country in key races.

Part vaporware, part useful tool, AI’s utility is worth a discussion.

The Republican incumbent voted for massive tax breaks for data centers in the Big Beautiful Bill. Now he’s saying Washington shouldn’t decide on the facilities.

Peter Kauffmann, vice chair for VoteVets, which has raised $20 million to spend in primaries on mostly moderate candidates this year, is running a front group fighting to keep credit card fees high.

Its policy statement merely targets disclosure. It doesn’t say that using personal data to set prices is an unfair or deceptive practice.

The simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky.

Sysco proposes acquisition to halve independent restaurants and double double your burger’s price.

Having failed at and then become bored with a shooting war, Donald Trump is returning to what really gets him up in the morning: an economic war. An “economic D-Day” for Iran was announced at around the same time as retaliatory trade measures against Canada, a demonstration of the fact that to Trump, there's no functional difference between tariffs and economic sanctions.