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The Founders Never Intended the U.S. Postal Service to be Managed Like a Business
The mail delivery agency is supposed to serve the public good — not worry about profit.
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Richard R. John
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Made By History
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April 27, 2020
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We Had a Better Social Safety Net. Then We Busted Unions.
COVID-19 has taught us all just how frayed our social safety net has become, and how its holes make us all more vulnerable.
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Lane Windham
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HNN
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April 19, 2020
How the Labor Movement Built New York
A new museum exhibit shows that you cannot understand the city’s history without understanding its workers.
by
Nick Juravich
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The Nation
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December 10, 2019
The Failed Political Promise of Silicon Valley
Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?
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Kim Phillips-Fein
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The New Republic
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September 27, 2019
State of the Unions
What happened to America’s labor movement?
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Caleb Crain
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The New Yorker
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August 26, 2019
The Hidden History of How the Government Kick-Started Silicon Valley
It’s time to move past the tech sector’s creator myths.
by
Margaret O'Mara
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Hope Reese
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OneZero
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July 8, 2019
With Plans for Cities in Space, Jeff Bezos Looks Back to the Future
The Amazon CEO's vision of space settlements draws on 1970s thinking, without adding anything new.
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Fred Scharmen
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CityLab
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May 13, 2019
The Public Costs of Private Growth
Amazon, the Great Depression, and the fiscal history #HQ2 supporters miss.
by
Daniel Wortel-London
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The Metropole
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January 28, 2019
The World’s Most Peculiar Company
How does Hammacher Schlemmer, famous for such eccentric products as the Navigable Water Park, continue to survive in the age of Amazon?
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Nick Greene
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Chicago Magazine
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August 1, 2018
The Dot-Coms Were Better Than Facebook
Twenty years ago, another high-profile tech executive testified before Congress. It was a more innocent time.
by
Ian Bogost
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The Atlantic
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April 13, 2018
How Congress Used the Post Office to Unite the Nation
Trump says Amazon is scamming the USPS. But its low shipping rates were a game changer for rural America.
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Stephen Mihm
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Bloomberg
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April 4, 2018
Amazon or Independence Hall? Development vs. Preservation in the City of Philadelphia
A history of Independence Hall offers an example of how old buildings and open spaces are not always ripe sites for development.
by
Whitney Martinko
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Hindsights
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December 11, 2017
Every Which Way but Regulated: The “Free Market” Trucking Industry
No longer home to the open-road outlaws and concrete cowboys of the ’70s, becoming a trucker is now the equivalent of operating a sweatshop on wheels thanks to deregulation.
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Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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November 25, 2014
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