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Nicky Loh / Reuters Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising transcendence and community, but failing to deliver.
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Karen Matthews / AP Amazon Got Exactly What It Deserved—And So Did New York
Trillion-dollar companies going shopping for billion-dollar subsidies should be publicly shamed.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters How Globalization Saved the World and Damned the West
A dispatch from Davos on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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Jessica Kourkounis / Reuters The Super Bowl’s Base Is Eroding Rapidly
The game faces two broad threats: a declining audience and a new advertising culture.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters Why Flying Cars Are an Impossible Dream
The air taxi is the Godot of technology: always on its way, never here.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has the Better Tax Argument
A 70 percent marginal rate could help, not hurt, innovation.
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Jason Lee / Reuters The Attention Economy Is a Malthusian Trap
Big tech companies now trade at one of the smallest premiums in history.
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Steve Marcus / Reuters America’s Housing Crisis Could Imperil Trump’s Presidency
Many of the administration’s most famous policies are impediments to affordable construction.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Political Question of the Future: But Are They Real?
What happens when live-streams become the new fireside chat
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters The Media’s Post-Advertising Future Is Also Its Past
Why the news is going back to the 19th century
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Americans Should Be ‘Screaming Mad’ About Amazon’s Free Money
America has an absurd—and dangerous—obsession with corporate subsidies, such as those given to Jeff Bezos’s trillion-dollar company.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters I Used Gmail Auto-Complete, and Now I Know I’m Worthless
The feature’s predictive powers make me feel … predictable, robotic, and un-singular.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Does It Matter Where You Go to College?
Research suggests that elite colleges don’t really help rich white guys. But they can have a big effect if you’re not rich, not white, or not a guy.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials.
The American system has thrown them into debt, depressed their wages, kept them from buying homes—and then blamed them for everything.
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Lisa Poole / AP What’s Really Happening to Retail?
Manhattan’s shuttered storefronts tell a larger American story: Only Amazon-proof businesses can now survive in brick and mortar.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Is a Recession Coming?
If you’re going to worry about the economy, tumbling stocks are the least of America’s financial troubles right now.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Lies Are a Virus, and News Organizations Are the Host
Journalists have become complicit in spreading the president’s falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Here’s how they can do better.
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Pascal Rossignol / Reuters Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Isn’t Just Shameful—It Should Be Illegal
Each year, local governments spend nearly $100 billion to move headquarters and factories between states. It’s a wasteful exercise that requires a national solution.
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AI Project / Reuters American Meritocracy Is Killing Youth Sports
Expensive travel leagues siphon off talented young athletes from well-off families—and leave everyone else behind.
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Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Everything You Wear Is Athleisure
Yoga pants, tennis shoes, and the 100-year history of how sports changed the way Americans dress
