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Meera Clark • A Religious Realignment
Technology companies drove the survivors into a mindset of engineered efficiency—the belief that data tells you everything of value. “Just like the tech companies, journalism has come to fetishize data. And this data has come to corrupt journalism,” Franklin Foer writes in World Without Mind. “Once journalists come to know what works, which stories
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
If the altered demographic profile of the two parties in the 2016 election—almost perfectly replicated in the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections—is signaling America’s newest political realignment, it would be the first since the Nixon-Reagan elections of 1968 to 1980, roughly forty to fifty years earlier. By Walter Dean Burnham’s count (as we saw in C
... See moreNeil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
It wasn’t until 2014 that the Internet was accessible in 80 percent of U.S. homes, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
William Arruda • Digital You: Real Personal Branding in the Virtual Age
Axios • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
The only institution to gain trust in the most recent survey? Newspapers,
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
How tech lost Gen Z
global opinion polls, which exhibit collapsing affection for democratic ideals.