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• We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.
• It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
• It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
• Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian…
• With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
• Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals…
• Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P.…
• Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
• The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later,…
• Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
• Twitter is crack for media addicts,
• At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it…

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