The ticket broker’s new ‘all-in’ pricing pledge is an effort to stave off antitrust enforcement.
Books, Culture & the Arts
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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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Casablanca for Real
The Netflix series ‘Transatlantic,’ on the 1940-1941 rescue of refugees from Marseille, is well worth watching, and contrasting with the shameful neglect of refugees in 2023.
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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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Why Gun Jokes No Longer Work
Tragedy + Tragedy + Tragedy + Tragedy …
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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.
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BlackBerry: When the Tech World Met Wall Street
The new film charts the conflict between making a good product and pleasing investors.
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Will Dem PR Flacks Help Studios Crush Striking Writers Again?
How two ‘Masters of Disaster’ helped Hollywood execs break the last writers strike
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Writers Face a New Deadline: Their Industry’s Survival
This time, Hollywood’s striking writers think they may just win. Will cross-union solidarity be enough?
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The Writers Walk
Today on TAP: The nearly century-long war between the studios and the writers continues.