American life Quote by Franklin Foer

Once upon a time, if you were going to get a loan from me, I would have had to look at your file, and…

— Franklin Foer

“But in the end, the hackers were misunderstood figures. They wanted nothing more than to belong, to subsume their brilliant selves in an even…

— Franklin Foer

Not even Trump's father's wealth, nor his father's faith in his son's destiny, could save Trump from incessant discipline. At the age of 13,…

— Franklin Foer

If I'm reading my Facebook feed, it's using algorithms, procedures, and methods to give me what I want, or what it thinks that I…

— Franklin Foer

Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places…

— Franklin Foer

“More than any previous coterie of corporations, the tech monopolies aspire to mold humanity into their desired image of it. They believe that they…

— Franklin Foer

In mid-2014, 51 percent of American Republicans viewed Putin very unfavorably. Two years later, 14 percent did. By January, 75 percent of Republicans said…

— Franklin Foer

Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such a character…

— Franklin Foer

“There's a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although they've gotten…

— Franklin Foer

Google's ability to pick winners and losers in the information world is a menace. These companies have the ability to determine which media companies…

— Franklin Foer

One of Trump's vulnerabilities is that he doesn't always vet his people, whether it's business partners, the dubious characters he retweets, or the foreign…

— Franklin Foer

“The dream of stitching the world into a global village has been embodied in the nomenclature of modern technology—the net is interconnected, the Web…

— Franklin Foer