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Woah! say Kelly and Zach Weinersmith in this romp through the many rooms of a space folly. “Leaving 2C warmer Earth for Mars would be like leaving a messy room so you can live in a toxic waste dump.”

The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.

During the Great Recession, I organized a Toyota boycott that accidentally paved the way for Musk’s rise. Musk probably won’t tell that story, so I will.

Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot embedded in X (formerly Twitter) and built by Elon Musk’s company xAI, is back in the headlines after calling itself “MechaHitler” and producing pro-Nazi remarks.

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Elon Musk has disrupted Silicon Valley, the electric car industry, and the U.S. government. His next target: democracy itself.

Unprecedented wealth concentration – and the unbridled power that comes with it – distorts our democracy and drives societal and economic tensions. The Five & Dime tax would would break up concentrated wealth and generate substantial new revenue.

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The row between the US president and his billionaire ex-buddy may seem entertaining, but wealth and power are still dangerously merged. Politics remains in thrall to money. Democracy requires better safeguards than rampant egos.