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It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: About Benevolent Country Democracy Democratic Elites Ever Fact Had Like Matter Nice Nice Things Often Our Over Perfect Power Representative Ruling Say Set System Terrible Things Very

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When you're staring at your phone to navigate and being led places, you do become less aware of your environment, and the journey becomes kind of automated. There is an aliveness that comes with having to puzzle out directions for yourself. And you have to ask other people for help, which creates opportunity for social connection.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Ask Aware Become Becomes Being Connection Creates Directions Environment Having Help Journey Kind Led Less Navigate Opportunity Other Out People Phone Places Puzzle Social Staring Which You Your Yourself

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The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Exists Greatest Internet Miracle Persists Second

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Hunting for malware requires highly specialized knowledge of the intricacies of the domain name system - the protocol that allows us to type email addresses and website names to initiate communication. DNS enables our words to set in motion a chain of connections between servers, which in turn delivers the results we desire.

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Topics: Address Between Chain Communication Connections Desire Domain Email Enables Highly Hunting Initiate Knowledge Motion Name Names Our Protocol Requires Results Set Specialized System Turn Type Us Website Which Words

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Computer scientists have built a set of massive DNS databases, which provide fragmentary histories of communications flows, in part to create an archive of malware: a kind of catalog of the tricks bad actors have tried to pull, which often involve masquerading as legitimate actors.

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Topics: Actor Bad Built Catalog Communications Computer Create Databases Flows Histories Involve Kind Legitimate Massive Often Part Provide Pull Scientists Set Tricks Tried Which

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I'd actually argue that the best thing to happen to the 'Washington Post' was hiring Marty Baron, maybe the greatest newspaper editor of his generation.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Actually Argue Best Editor Generation Greatest Happen Hiring His Marty Maybe Newspaper Post Thing Washington Washington Post

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The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get chopped up into ever-smaller parcels.

~Franklin Foer

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Self-publishing is fine. But in a world of self-publishing, where everything is about what you get on the back end, there's a serious disincentive from embarking on really important, vital projects.

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Topics: About Back End Everything Fine Get Important Projects Really Serious Vital Where World You

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I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes to nonfiction, because writing a book of investigative journalism is an expensive endeavor, and the system works best if you have publishers making bets on authors.

~Franklin Foer

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Donald Trump's interest in Russia dates back to Soviet times. In fact, there's extraordinary footage of him shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev. It comes from 1988, the peak of perestroika and Gorbachev's efforts to charm the American public.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: American American Public Back Charm Dates Donald Efforts Extraordinary Fact Footage Gorbachev Hands Him In Fact Interest Peak Public Russia Shaking Soviet Times Trump

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 20th, 1974

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