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Lies My Corporation Told Me
A new book lays out 150 years of corporate stooges making bogus arguments.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Moral Authority of Marc Rowan
The private equity billionaire is leading a boycott of an Ivy League oligarch factory over a Palestinian literary festival it held last month.
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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
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
A Black Football Player Reclaims His Story
A book and hit movie depicted Michael Oher as a Black kid saved by adoptive white parents. Oher says that’s not the real story.
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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.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Q&A: How Corporate Medicine Destroys Doctors
Wendy Dean, who co-authored a new book about moral injury in American medicine, says working in today’s health care system is ‘not the agreement that we thought we were making.’