title: We Can Fix It!: How to disrupt the impact of Big Money on politics
author: Nelson Morgan
description: Nelson Morgan is the CEO of UpRise Campaigns, a California Social Purpose Corporation, which was formed to disrupt the influence of big money on our politics. In his previous life, he was the director of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and a Professor-in-residence at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of California at Berkeley. His research specialties were the processing of signals such as speech and signals recorded from the brain, including the use of neurally-inspired approaches to machine intelligence. Since retiring from the ICSI and Berkeley positions in 2014 he has focused his efforts on working with his UpRise colleagues to strengthen democracy by restructuring how our elections work, incorporating technology to organize campaigns in a much more effective way.
zlib_text: FEBRUARY 22ND–28TH 2020
  How to prepare for a pandemic 
  Boris v the judges
  Why the Bundesbank should relax 
  Progress in the search for ET
  Big tech’s
  $2trn bull run
  
  The Economist February 22nd 2020
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  Contents
  The world this week
  6 A summary of political
  and business news
  Leaders
  9 Big tech
  A $2trn bull run
  10 Student debt
  Getting the maths right
  10 The Bundesbank and 
  the ECB
  Couples therapy
  11 Britain’s legal system
  Johnson v the judges
  12 Climate philanthropy
  The great Bezos giveaway
  Letters
  14 On Clayton Christensen,
  Bernie Sanders, puberty
  blockers, private equity,
  police, China, sad songs
  Brieﬁng
  16 The Philippines
  The unacceptable face
  of democracy
  Special report: 
  The data economy
  Mirror worlds
  After page 44
  Britain
  19 Judging the judges
  20 Brexit and the Elgin
  marbles
  22 New immigration rules
  22 Brexit negotiations
  23 Trade-union feuds
  23 Ministerial churn
  24 Woke members’ clubs
  25 Bagehot The imperial
  prime minister
  Europe
  26 Macroneconomics
  27 Sex