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The Silicon Valley LoopHow the dot-com crash created Palo Alto’s clueless investor class.
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Why Capitalism Needs Sick PeopleThe grim reality of the health-care industry has prompted a radical rethinking of how to change it.
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the money game
The Rise of Influencer CapitalHow social media, celebrity promoters, and banks looking for a quick buck transformed the markets.
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Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?A group of Big Data’s critics claims we’re seeing a return to feudal rule.
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science of us
Why Are Kids So Sad?As American youths suffer from a mental-health crisis, the media asks the wrong questions.
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Don’t Just Legalize Weed. End Marijuana Prohibition.If Joe Biden wants to be like FDR, he can look to the repeal of the 18th Amendment.
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lgbtq rights
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The War on CashCash payments are on the wane, and that’s probably a bad thing.
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Back to ClassA Marxist scholar confronts the unfulfilled promise of collective action.
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kids these days
What Is ‘Generation Z’ Like? Watch the Spelling Bee to Find OutBy studying spelling bee competitors, Northwestern professor Shalini Shankar has started to create a portrait of the coming generational cohort.
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varsity blues scandal
How the College Admissions Ring Explains 21st-Century American Capitalism“Human capital” is at the center of our economy. Thanks to Rick Singer, we now know its going rate.
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Glitch Capitalism: How Cheating AIs Explain Our Stagnant PresentAmerican society has come to follow the same logic as glitch-hunting AIs, and in the process become vulnerable to huge inequalities and injustices.
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Raoul Peck: ‘I’m Not in the Movie Business to Make Films’“This is the first film ever in the Western world about Marx.”
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Are Smartphones Destroying a Generation, or Are Consultants?Jean M. Twenge’s new book, iGen, proposes that young people are unhappy because of smartphones.
