May 2018 – Page 5 – Echo Chamber 2016

NYTimes: How to Be a Prophet of Doom

How to Be a Prophet of Doom nyti.ms/2G6N5Wb

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NYTimes: Is the United States Too Big to Govern?

Is the United States Too Big to Govern? nyti.ms/2G84b5U

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NYTimes: How California Could Bust Up the Two-Party System

How California Could Bust Up the Two-Party System nyti.ms/2IbbUGm

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NYTimes: How Did Our Sports Get So Divisive?

How Did Our Sports Get So Divisive? nyti.ms/2GaEyBs

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NYTimes: Which Side Are You On?

Which Side Are You On? nyti.ms/2G1vPRS

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NYTimes: The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio

The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio nyti.ms/2I0e2AE

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‘It Was Very Natural.’ The Story Behind the Viral Photo of 4 Former Presidents and First Ladies

time.com/5250307/barbara-bush-obama-clinton-trump-funeral-photo/

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NYTimes: Why Are So Many Democracies Breaking Down?

Why Are So Many Democracies Breaking Down? nyti.ms/2FUhhUj

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NYTimes: The Future of the American Left

The Future of the American Left nyti.ms/2FE0WD6

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******* NYTimes: Industrial Revolutions Are Political Wrecking Balls

Industrial Revolutions Are Political Wrecking Balls nyti.ms/2HLUMa0

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***** A Good Country’s Bad Choice
“Perhaps Americans require, every once in a while, to be jolted out of the complacency learned from their mostly fortunate history,” writes @davidfrum: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/good-country-bad-choice/680743/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYSECrhdn_SOyTlOTmKCc0rU&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
America’s Lonely Future
In Trump’s second term, the U.S. could become a global bully. @davidfrum on America’s lonely future: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/trump-foreign-policy-isolation/680754/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYbU2plvZ5TiV-ZxxIiDsRUU&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
The End of Democratic Delusions The Trump Reaction and what comes next By George Packer
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/trump-reelection-voter-demographic-change/680752/
**** NYTimes.com: In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails
In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails The Democratic Party needs to rethink what it means to be the party of institutions. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jennifer-pahlka-steven-teles.html?smid=em-share
NYTimes.com: This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time Wolfgang Streeck has a convincing theory of what has gone wrong with globalization. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/opinion/wolfgang-streeck-populism.html?smid=em-share
Why Are You Still Cooking With That?
Why Are You Still Cooking With That? https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/11/why-are-you-still-cooking-with-that/680816/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYQ4MnRkbDD0wGRCplZTDGw8&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
**** The Rise and Fall of the Word ‘Monopoly’ in American Life
The word “monopoly” was once a fixture of political discourse, writes @stacyfmitchell. Where has it gone? https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/word-monopoly-antitrust/530169/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYaBGHyT6gv5MFwlHOONEUsA&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
****** Why Judges Let Monopolists Off the Hook
“If Americans want to protect the economy from Goliaths that trample all over workers and small businesses, Congress and the states are going to have to pass new laws that make it easier to bring, and win, antitrust cases,” @ZephyrTeachout writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/antitrust-facebook-congress-sherman-act/620539/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYYXtpu8vagUyUwCaGiuLcmQ&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
The Great Grocery Squeeze
Food deserts “didn’t materialize around the country for no reason,” @stacyfmitchell writes. “Something happened. That something was a specific federal policy change in the 1980s.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYZHF6lsh3gwbKjT04v0Dyvo&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
FW: Check this out on Amazon Neoliberalism books I have read
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism https://a.co/d/0rJJ7NX The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era https://a.co/d/irt7p79