Archive - Slow Build by Nancy Scola

“The woman leading the surging MAGA antitrust movement”

A new profile of assistant attorney general Gail Slater

May 20 •

November 2024

Pete Buttigieg, antitrust warrior?

And other election-day distraction reading

Nov 5, 2024 •

November 2023

The Biden White House’s AI Weltanschauung

“What we’re going to have to prepare for...is the potential impact of AI on our ability to tell what’s real and what’s not."

Nov 27, 2023 •

September 2023

“I’m not anyone that understands the industry”

Observations from inside the COVID bubble

Sep 29, 2023 •

TikTok and the forgotten American voter

A look at the much-debated platform's surprising role in politics

Sep 13, 2023 •

April 2023

The anti-monopoly man

A new profile of antitrust advocate Matt Stoller. Plus: inside TikTok’s attempt to rewrite its story, and a strange D.C. evening talking AI.

Apr 28, 2023 •

November 2022

Why can't Washington quit Twitter?

Plus, battles over political journalism, the uncertain fate of election betting in the U.S., and stuff I'm reading

Nov 18, 2022 •

February 2022

This is war now

And the rest of the week that was

Feb 25, 2022 •

And the rest of the week that was.

Feb 18, 2022 •

Survival planning for an anti-prepper Congress

And the rest of the week that was.

Feb 11, 2022 •

Passwords save America

And the rest of the week that was.

Feb 4, 2022 •

January 2022

The crypto policy pullback?

And the rest of the week that was.

Jan 28, 2022 •

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