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Author: Aaron Timms

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Us vs. Him
April 23, 2018
The Bremmer plan is to promote free trade, cut the deficit in the United States, and revive our flagging faith in the private sector to do good: the canon of Davos.

A Metaphor for the Planet
April 19, 2018
David Buckel's memory is dangerous to environmental organizations' more moderate calls for legislative gradualism and personal lifestyle change.

We Don’t Have Elections
April 18, 2018
The truth is that while tech giants act with an authoritarian indifference toward their citizen-consumers, it’s increasingly important they are seen as liberal.

Unexpected Consequences
April 17, 2018
Once it became clear that his congressional interrogation would have all the intensity of a flogging with wet lettuce, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg cleverly shifted the tenor of his remarks. He patiently tutored D.C.’s elected internet virgins in the role he was expecting ...

Syriana
April 16, 2018
“‘Explosion without an objective,’ declared Miles Blundell, ‘is politics in its purest form.’”—Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day   U.S. Imperialism should be a thing again, but some theoretical adjustment is suggested. Scholarly analyses have tied it to narrow ...

The Garbage Man
April 04, 2018
Meet Sidney Torres: New Orleans trash king, private police chief, reality TV star, and, possibly, the next Trump.