Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. is in “decline” and embraces a cultish tech movement to build “network” societies beyond the reach of nation-states—and he’s got Congress eating out of his hand.

J.D. Vance is publicly asking his billionaire tech bro mentor for help this election.

Vance is wildly inexperienced and widely loathed. With Joe Biden out of the race, he’s a huge liability.

As old Vance criticism of Trump surfaces, a leading tech writer explains how Vance evolved from a clear-eyed Trump critic to a MAGA disciple in thrall to a radical techno-authoritarian vision.

Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.

The U.S. government is worried about falling behind in the literal A.I. arms race—and Silicon Valley is cashing in with ludicrous promises.

Sorry, Elon Musk, but that’s not how fascism works.

Tom Wolfe was no radical.

The biggest tension in the GOP primary isn’t between Trump and DeSantis.

A bank run led to a wake-up call for America’s most coddled class of plutocrats.

How Stanford University turned optimization into the global capitalist credo

A biotech firm wants to resurrect the Pleistocene mammal in Alaska—and it’s not clear the U.S. government can stop them.

The tech billionaire and his GOP minions J.D. Vance and Blake Masters have America to thank for their riches. So why do they portray it as a stagnant, doomed hellhole?

Like his pals Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, Sacks is using his wealth and online clout to unite conservatives and former leftists in a reactionary movement against liberalism.

A 50-year-old law allows candidates—but not fundraising groups—to get discounted TV ad rates in the 60 days before the election. What does that mean for the home stretch of their campaigns?

An interview with Max Chafkin, author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power,” on how J.D. Vance and Blake Masters came to be part of Thiel’s political project

The tech billionaire wants to remake the Republican Party—and America. But Blake Masters and J.D. Vance are lagging in the polls, and struggling to raise money.

Do the financiers deserve the credit for Silicon Valley’s success?

The billionaire is backing far-right Republicans who are anti-democracy, anti-China, and pro-crypto.

Who Peter Thiel is does not really matter. What matters about him is whom he connects.