Derek Thompson
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Why Is Everyone So Bad At Giving Gifts?
Some much-needed, if unsolicited, advice on gift-giving for the holidays.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters This Is the Long Game of Republican Economics
Corporate tax cuts are just the first step.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Bitcoin Is a Delusion That Could Conquer the World
The cryptocurrency’s current price is completely unreal. Then again, so is money.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters How to Survive the Media Apocalypse
Pivot to readers.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Why the GOP Tax Bill Is So Unpopular
The public seems to be against the plan precisely because they know what’s in it.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Why the Trump Administration Is Suing to Block the AT&T–Time Warner Merger
The lawsuit may pit AT&T and Time Warner against the Justice Department. But it's the tech industry that might suffer the most.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Republican War on College
For the cost of cutting corporate income taxes, the U.S. could provide universal pre-K and make tuition free at public colleges for nonaffluent students.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The 4 Reasons Why 2017 Is a Tipping Point for Retail
“Five years from now, we won’t be debating whether ‘e-tailers’ are taking share from brick-and-mortar retailers, because they are all the same.”
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bandita / Flickr Why Amazon Just Spent a Fortune to Turn Lord of the Rings Into TV
There is no “Moneyball” for media. In entertainment, overkill is underrated.
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Richard T. Nowitz / Getty The Very Bad Arguments for Killing the Estate Tax
It’s minuscule, cumbersome, and easily avoided. It's also a symbol of Washington’s approach to dynastic wealth and the American Dream.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why the GOP’s Dream of Tax Reform Is (Probably) Doomed
Republicans are screwing up their big tax cut. They can still salvage it. But they have to think small.
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Alan Diaz / AP Is Donald Trump Using the DOJ to Crush CNN?
Or is the Department of Justice finally cracking down on corporate mergers?
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Reed Saxon / AP A Disney-21st Century Fox Merger Would Be Invincible
It would be an enormous movie-and-television company. And an enormous antitrust headache.
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Darren Abate / AP Mass Shootings in America Are Spreading Like a Disease
If it seems like the shootings are becoming more frequent, it might be because mass murder can catch on like an epidemic.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Original Sin of the GOP Tax Plan
How did a proposal to simplify the tax code become such a mess? Blame its first principles.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Donald Trump Jr.'s Hilariously Bad Tweet
So much revealed in one not-very-funny joke
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Donald Trump Is Incredibly Lucky to Have This Economy
The most unpopular president in modern history presides over economic conditions that would otherwise predict strong approval for the typical commander in chief.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Google's Profits Are Exploding Because the Web Is Massive
The company's global ad business is now larger than that of Facebook, Alibaba, Baidu, Twitter, Amazon, and Snap, combined.
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Joe Raedle / Getty Why Nerds and Nurses Are Taking Over the U.S. Economy
A blockbuster report from government economists forecasts the workforce of 2026—a world of robot cashiers, well-paid math nerds, and so (so, so, so) many healthcare workers.
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Doom Loop of Modern Liberalism
Diversity and equality seem tragically incompatible in the world today. Here’s why.
