How can we make sense of the return of Donald Trump, who again convinced enough US voters of his populist bonafides? Trump is already filling his cabinet with multimillionaires and billionaires, a group The Guardian characterizes as a “gallery of mega-rich backers [in] key positions that…will give them power to cut spending on public survives … Read more
On January 7, 2025, and in the days following, the founder and CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, made a series of statements that framed Meta’s previous and future content policy with an evidently strategic intention. The change of content moderation policy, as described in three comprehensive points in his personal announcement on his own platforms, … Read more
Today, January 20, 2025, Donald Trump is going to be inaugurated a second time as the 47th President of the United States. His presidency is expected to undertake dramatic changes to America’s policy on immigration as his hardcore rhetoric may transform into hardened policy. To fulfill his campaign promises, in particular his planned mass deportation … Read more
When thinking about this current moment in time when major currents of political and economic power seem to flow into each other in exceptional and perhaps unparalleled ways, it might be useful to tease out in some more detail how exactly plutocracy 2025 differs from the entanglements of economic and business power that have come … Read more
In June 2024, the European Union adopted the AI Act, globally the first attempt to comprehensively regulate artificial intelligence (AI). As the uptake of AI increases across all domains, so will the impact of the AI Act. At the national level, experimentation with AI systems in the public realm occurs especially in public administration. Examples … Read more
