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Tracking the Flood of AI Political Spending

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By Ryan Cooper 
| The American Prospect
Back in 2022, the cryptocurrency “industry” was facing some problems. Their product was sort of like money, though useful only for criminals, and also consumed nation-state amounts of electricity. A boom in NFTs—basically a receipt, except it doesn’t actually prove ownership—went bust. FTX, a major cryptocurrency exchange, turned out to be a giant fraud and collapsed. Congress and regulators at the Biden administration were closing in. What to do?
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Two Simple Steps Toward De-MAGAfication

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By Ryan Cooper , Susanna Beiser
| The American Prospect
This article appears in the June 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe here. In Hungary, Viktor Orbán recently lost power after 16 years of autocratic rule. The defeat was so enormous that the opposition party, led by Péter Magyar, swept past all Orbán’s various bulwarks designed to maintain power, winning the two-thirds majority in the Hungarian parliament necessary to amend the constitution.
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Aftermath: Something Is Going to Snap

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By Ryan Cooper 
| The American Prospect
This story was first featured in the Aftermath newsletter, a series from David Dayen exploring the economic consequences of the war in Iran. To have these stories delivered to your in-box as soon as they are published, sign up for the newsletter here. Hello and welcome to Aftermath, our pop-up newsletter about the war in Iran. The fact that there still is a war in Iran is our topic today. Read all of our past pieces in this series at prospect.org/aftermath.
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