A new book lays out 150 years of corporate stooges making bogus arguments.
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Fixing Disinformation Online
What will it take to regulate the abuses of Big Tech without undermining free speech?
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It’s the Global Economy, Stupid
A new book on the Clinton presidency reveals how it abandoned a progressive vision for a finance-led agenda for economics and geopolitics.
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How Big Tech Is Undermining Childhood
A conversation with author and child advocate Susan Linn
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A Hemmed-In Presidency
In ‘The Last Politician,’ Franklin Foer unfolds Joe Biden’s record of achievement and command. But voters haven’t gotten to see it.
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Clinton’s Backwash
To make sense of Ron DeSantis, who trolls a liberal elite that has not faced its own failures, a former teammate reflects on their time playing baseball at Yale in the 1990s.
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The Real Problem With Asset Managers
Rich people collect the vast majority of capital income. There’s a better way.
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Is Capitalism Really Cracking Up Nation-States?
Quinn Slobodian’s new book shimmers with libertarian dreams but fails to demonstrate that zones are splintering national governments.
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Days of Plunder
Two new books call ‘private equity’ what it actually is, but neither offers much hope for emancipation from our eternal hostile takeover.
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It Takes a Village for Elder Care, Too
The toll that caring for aging parents takes on their children can be allayed only by expanding our caring networks.