- Neighbors
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Cash
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.
- Disenchanted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.
- Opposite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.
- Assembly Line
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- Nov 07, 2020
The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.
- Dismal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020