SILICON VLLEY
Baratunde Thurston
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April 21, 2024
The D.E.I. Blame Game
Are panels really flying off Boeing 737s due to wokeness? An honest look at the recent D.E.I. hysteria.
Theodore Schleifer
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April 16, 2024
The Shanahan Persuasion Campaign
Three weeks ago, R.F.K. Jr. chose the well-connected (and very wealthy) but largely unknown Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. Now, top Democratic donors and operatives are debating whether to use their friends in Silicon Valley to get oppo on her—or ask them to pitch her on an “off-ramp.”
Eriq Gardner
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April 15, 2024
Billionaire Boies Club
The plaintiffs who sued Google aren’t receiving a penny, but the law firms who represented them are looking at a historic billion-dollar bonanza over the company’s “incognito” mode scandal. David Boies, one of the lead attorneys, says more 10-figure paydays are coming.
Theodore Schleifer
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April 9, 2024
Tim Scott’s V.P. Edge & Trump’s Big Money Push
News and murmurs from the Mar-a-Lago money circuit: Larry Ellison’s involvement in the Trump veepstakes, John Paulson’s billionaire donor bash, and the anti-Biden progressive group trying to get serious.
Baratunde Thurston
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April 7, 2024
Altered Carbon
An urgent dispatch from the 35th annual Bioneers conference, where the scientific community underscored a series of novel, and deceptively simple, frameworks for reorienting our societies to address our carbon problem.