Daniel Boguslaw

5 days ago | prospect.org | Daniel Boguslaw

After grinding through the House, Donald Trump’s big beautiful reconciliation bill is now pending in the Senate, where weary Republicans and even wearier Democrats probe and ponder. As committees prepare to mark up the package this week, a particularly egregious and unprecedented carve-out for artificial intelligence has bubbled to the surface. Tucked into the House-approved legislation is a ten-year moratorium on state regulation of AI.

2 weeks ago | prospect.org | Daniel Boguslaw

In a surprise announcement last week, UnitedHealth Group revealed that Andrew Witty is stepping down as CEO of the health insurance leviathan, citing “personal reasons” for his departure. Before Witty, UnitedHealth was overseen by Brian Thompson, a former executive who was allegedly gunned down by Luigi Mangione on the streets of New York last year. Taking Witty’s place is Stephen Hemsley, a UnitedHealth executive who previously served as CEO from 2006 to 2017.

2 weeks ago | americanprospect.bluelena.io | Ryan Cooper |Harold Meyerson |Daniel Boguslaw

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2 weeks ago | prospect.org | Daniel Boguslaw

This article appears in the June 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Presidential sidekick Elon Musk has thus far been spared from the greatest risk to his interstellar empire: the continuity of hawkish antitrust enforcement between the Biden and Trump administrations. That’s good news for his company SpaceX and its subsidiary Starlink, which are in a plum position to dominate not only commercial space transportation, but space itself.

3 weeks ago | damagemag.com | Daniel Boguslaw

On the spring equinox I went to see the man on the mountain. Seymour Hersh did not know I was coming, and after a wary nod from his wife, he exploded out the front door and asked, “What the fuck is wrong with you? What happened? Did you watch All the President's Men too many times? Write me an email like a normal person. I’m not going to reward this fucking behavior. Think of a question and ask me a question in an email.