Elizabeth Spiers is a New York Times columnist, co-host of the “Slate Money” podcast, a media entrepreneur, and an NYU professor of journalism. She was the founding editor at Gawker.com, and has been a columnist at Fortune and Fast Company.
Perspectives
Fascism doesn’t start by kicking down the door. Sometimes it demands a settlement, manipulates a corporate merger, cancels a comedian, or silences the press. Some thought it couldn’t happen here. But the evidence is all around us. Yesterday news broke that CBS is reportedly appointing Bari Weiss as
Money
Our friends at Texas Observer are reporting that your elected Republican officials — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and GOP state senator Charles Schwertner, specifically — want to establish a Bitcoin reserve for Texas. If that isn’t the dumbest sentence you’ve read this morning, let’s keep going! The “Texas Strategic