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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 leaders who show up at his door.

~Franklin Foer

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An article in the 'Moscow Times' described Trump as the city's first grand builder since Stalin.

~Franklin Foer

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There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't wholly wrong. High-profile devotees of Ayn Rand can be found there.

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Google helps us sort the Internet by providing a sense of hierarchy to information. Facebook uses its algorithms and its intricate understanding of our social circles to filter the news we encounter. Amazon bestrides book publishing with its overwhelming hold on that market.

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Topics: Amazon Book Circles Encounter Facebook Filter Google Helps Hierarchy Hold Information Internet Intricate Market News Our Overwhelming Providing Publishing Sense Social Sort Understanding Us Uses

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Privacy won't survive the present trajectory of technology - and with the sense of being perpetually watched, humans will behave more cautiously, less subversively. Our ideas about the competitive marketplace are at risk.

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Topics: About Behave Being Competitive Humans Ideas Less Marketplace More Our Perpetually Present Privacy Risk Sense Survive Technology Trajectory Watched Will

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My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.

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I have really no desire to go back into management ever again.

~Franklin Foer

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Brazil is a country largely resistant to ideology. This is a strange fact given its founding by followers of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, who inscribed an epigram from his philosophy of positivism in the national flag: Order and Progress.

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When the mayor of Sao Paulo wanted to increase bus fare by 21 centavos in 2013, the country erupted in the largest mass protests in its history. It wasn't a dramatic hike - just nine cents - but a perfect symbol of the increasing burdens on the working poor, forced to fend with an inadequate system, insensitive to their plight.

~Franklin Foer

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Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajectory of the global economy. This wasn't state-of-the art industrial policy. The projects seemed curiously nostalgic.

~Franklin Foer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 20th, 1974

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