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POLITICO • March 2023

U.S., EU lawmakers feel cut out of Biden’s electric vehicle trade agenda

The United States and European Union are racing to settle their dispute over tax credits for electric vehicles, but their attempted fix is creating new problems for each of them back home.

POLITICO • June 2022

Bipartisan resentment grows as Biden pursues new trade talks

Bipartisan resentment is building among lawmakers who say they are being cut out of President Joe Biden’s trade agenda as he begins brokering deals around the globe.

POLITICO • April 2022

Progressive and export-dependent: Oregon is a test for Democrats on trade

PORTLAND, Ore. — Democrats’ conflicting impulses over the future of U.S. trade policy are playing out here in the nation’s Pacific Northwest.

POLITICO • April 2022

Washington Was an Icon of Black Political Power. Then Came Gentrification.

The capital city was a national icon of local Black political power. No longer. As D.C. has skyrocketed in population over the past 20 years, buoyed by a renaissance in urban life, it has also seen a sharp outflow of Black residents.

POLITICO • April 2022

This cheeseburger explains your bigger grocery bill

American consumers are seeing food prices rise at the fastest rate in decades. Supply chain snarls, labor shortages and climate challenges (plus the conflict in Ukraine) share the blame.

POLITICO • December 2021

Biden looks to chip away at supply chain snarls as midterms loom

Long-term fixes will require major changes to how supply chains are operated and regulated, labor and industry officials say. Now that attention is shifting away from an imminent holiday crisis, they are leaning on Biden to address long-standing issues related to workers’ rights, market competition and insufficient logistics technology.

POLITICO • October 2021

Trump-era tensions set to cool under U.S.-EU deal

The Biden administration will ease tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the European Union under an agreement reached Saturday, resolving a Trump-era tension that for years has tarnished trade relations between the longtime allies.

POLITICO • September 2021

Why Trump’s steel tariffs are now Biden’s political headache

President Joe Biden is eager to show he is delivering for steelworkers and other unions, but he faces immense pressure from businesses and European allies to lift steel tariffs that Trump imposed.

POLITICO • May 2021

Industries pressure Washington to act as chip crisis worsens

The Biden administration and Congress are under mounting pressure to relieve a global chip shortage that has idled manufacturing workers and raised prices for some consumer products, complicating the economic recovery.

POLITICO • March 2021

Why Biden’s team is holding back on what China wants most

Chinese officials and multinational companies have been pushing for a rapid easing of trade tensions. Instead, the White House is signaling to Beijing that future conversations about trade will happen in concert with foreign allies and only come after China shows progress on issues like climate change and human rights.

POLITICO • December 2020

Anti-Facebook agitators see their moment under Biden

Facebook endured a deluge of political scrutiny in Donald Trump’s Washington. It’s poised to face even worse in the Joe Biden era.

POLITICO • September 2020

Trump’s TikTok power play may fall short

President Donald Trump aimed for a clear-cut win over China when he demanded that TikTok's Beijing-based parent sell the popular video-sharing app to an American company or be banned from operating in the United States. Now he may have to settle for less.

POLITICO • March 2020

Washington's new tone: Help us, Silicon Valley

The Trump administration has also directly engaged executives such as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the issue in recent days, despite President Donald Trump's sharp and sustained criticism of their companies over issues like corporate taxes, Postal Service fees and business in China. “It’s an interesting irony, isn't it? And a bit of a realignment,” said Jamie Court, the president of Consumer Watchdog, a public interest group that regularly scrutinizes tech companies. “T

POLITICO • November 2019

TikTok emerges as Silicon Valley's scapegoat in Washington

The wildly popular video-sharing app TikTok may not be the competitor that Silicon Valley wants, but it could provide what the U.S. tech industry needs right now — a Chinese-owned foil to divert the ire of lawmakers in Washington.

POLITICO • October 2019

'Populist mobs' vs. the Kochs: Tech probes split the GOP

Washington's growing antitrust war against Silicon Valley is opening a rift among Republicans — with the Koch family’s vast political operation and other small-government groups emerging as the tech industry’s key allies on the issue.

POLITICO • August 2019

Internal divides cloud tech industry's antitrust defense

Even as some of the industry's biggest names confront mounting questions about their size and power, they can't always rely on backup from the trade groups they've showered with money over the years.

POLITICO • March 2018

How tech lost on the sex trafficking bill

When Silicon Valley's biggest players moved last year to derail a bill to combat online sex trafficking that they believed could cause problems for their industry, they had every reason to think their deep influence in Washington would do the trick, just as it had so many times in the past.

POLITICO • November 2017

How tech is winning the Trump era

SAN FRANCISCO — The conventional wisdom about the tech industry’s relationship with Donald Trump is that it's a street brawl, with Silicon Valley's liberal CEOs clashing with the president on everything from immigration to climate change to transgender rights. But the reality is that Silicon Valley is getting much of what it wants.

POLITICO • September 2017

Silicon Valley all in on tax reform

Silicon Valley is racing to support and shape President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax proposal, despite months of distancing itself from his policies on everything from immigration to climate change.

The Washington Post

Washington Post • May 2017

In the future, virtual assistants will not only take orders. They’ll also have ideas of their own.

Humans may not be taking direct orders from their technology, at least not yet, but in-home assistants nevertheless suggests an emerging relationship where smart devices wield even greater influence over our decisions.

Washington Post • February 2017

RIP LivingSocial: The fast rise and slow demise of a daily deals company

LivingSocial, the Washington start-up that rode the daily deals craze to markets across the globe, has died as a stand-alone company. It was nearly 10 years old.

Washington Post • September 2016

Siri answers your questions. This bot will understand your emotions.

The proliferation of bots equipped with artificial intelligence has humans interacting with machines in more emotionally charged situations than ever before. If our voices become louder or sound depressed, or our faces look perplexed or angry, robots should be able to detect that and respond accordingly. That notion is behind a burgeoning research area within artificial intelligence.

Washington Post • July 2016

The VCR is officially dead. Yes, it was still alive.

The videocassette recorder that revolutionized home entertainment by allowing television audiences to capture their favorite shows on tape and watch them at their leisure will die later this month after a decade-long battle with obsolescence. It is roughly 60 years old.

Washington Post • January 2015

Is there more to Washington’s economy than the government? Investors seem to think so.

If Washington is merely a government town, no one told the venture capital community. Investors have funneled sizeable sums of cash over the past several months into a string of local companies that hail from a broad swath of industries, including education technology, retail software, digital media and restaurants.

Washington Post • August 2013

Technology ushers locally produced milk, food from the farm to the table

The milkman brings two-and-a-half gallons of South Mountain Creamery’s freshest to Cynthia Terrell’s Takoma Park home each Tuesday, carefully placing the glass bottles on her front porch before dawn and collecting the empty containers from last week’s delivery. The scene is like a still life from some 1950s Pleasantville. But the Terrell family’s locally sourced lifestyle is made possible by something far more modern.

Washington Post • July 2012

Summer tourists return to Ocean City, bringing business confidence with them

Ocean City did not endure the tumbleweeds-through-town-square kind of downturn experienced in some other vacation destinations. The vast majority of its visitors travel by car and can find modestly priced lodging. Even still, the downturn was palpable.

Washington Post • March 2012

Washington developers are looking up — and many don’t seem to mind

The skyline around the Washington region is poised to soar higher in the coming years as an increasing number of construction projects bring ever-taller buildings to neighborhoods and commercial centers. But while these buildings are sure to alter the skyline, they also signify a more fundamental shift in the way people live life on the ground.

Washington Post • December 2011

From Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley, a debate over highly skilled immigrants

Thousands of immigrants graduate from American universities each year with advanced degrees, yet can’t obtain the legal documents necessary to work here. A growing number of policymakers, and some Republican presidential contenders, have recently proposed changing the system.