Voters want someone they trust to change the economic deal
Graham Platner’s victory in the Maine Democratic primary, despite controversies that would sink more conventional candidates, shows us that voters are not simply rejecting incumbents. They are responding to candidates – even those with pretty dire baggage – who speak to a widespread belief that the economic system is increasingly rigged in favour of billionaires and large corporations.
In my research with Harvard professor Taeku Lee, based on surveys of more than 36,000 voters across the US, UK, France and Germany, we see a hidden wave of voter opinion that is hostile to big corporations and billionaire influence.
Pepper Culpepper is professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government and author of Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How It Could Save Democracy
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AI's mixed success on novel math problems highlights its potential and limitations, prompting further exploration of its role in research.
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A new Harvard and Perplexity paper uses matched-pair sessions to compare an autonomous agent with a search assistant. It finds large gains in autonomy, time, and cost, plus broader scope of work attempted.
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The study suggests that optimizing training data frequency could enable smaller AI models to learn complex tasks, impacting future model design.
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Harvard's endowment fund has become one of the latest high-profile holders to liquidate its ETH as investor sentiment sours during the ongoing bear market.
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Institutional crypto ETF filings for the first quarter showed a split between buyers and sellers. Summary Harvard fully exited BlackRock’s Ether ETF while cutting its IBIT position another 43% in Q1. Mubadala added two million IBIT shares, keeping Abu Dhabi’s Bitcoin ETF exposure above $500 million. Dartmouth kept Bitcoin exposure flat but added Solana staking ETF shares, widening endowment crypto allocations. Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company raised its BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust position, while Harvard Management Company reduced its Bitcoin ETF stake and removed its BlackRock Ether ETF holding. The filings came after a volatile quarter for digital assets and ETF flows. They also showed how large investors used regulated funds in different ways. Some funds added exposure through Bitcoin ETFs. Others cut risk, shifted products, or widened allocations beyond Bitcoin and
