Editor's Letter
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Editor's Letter
feature My good friends, I’m running for president. Let me enumerate just a few of the many reasons why I deserve your vote. I am, above all, the candidate of change, much more so than my opponents; indeed, if elected, I will change everything that you, the Ameri
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Editor's Letter
feature This election season has produced a strange disconnect. On the one hand, we’ve had the media narrative, propelled by breathless talk of “momentum” and “inevitability” and “collapses.” Then there are the voters. Remember last spring, when we were told that
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Editor's Letter
feature The world is coming to an end. Chicken Little was correct about this, if a bit premature; the only relevant questions are how, and when. The current conventional wisdom is that Doomsday will occur no later than 2 billion years hence, when the sun expands,
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feature Think about the upcoming Olympic Games in China, and you’re bound to think of Tibet. Pro-Tibetan activists have succeeded in making the Buddhist region, occupied by China since 1950, part of any conversation about the Beijing Olympics. Some of this global
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feature It’s harder than ever to find a spot on Earth that hasn’t been turned into a marketing opportunity. Everything from park benches to high school gymnasiums now comes with commercial sponsors, and ads have been popping up in restaurant bathrooms and even at
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Editor's Letter: Our chaotic times
feature I lifted my hand to wave, but her head was fixed straight ahead. All I could do was stand and watch as the ground beneath me registered a subtle quake.
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Editor's Letter: Online ads and precise optimization
feature Marketers are starting to employ a new technology, dubbed real-time bidding, that enables them to target messages based on what we’re doing online at that very moment.
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Editor's Letter: Human fallibility
feature Let us not put too much trust in those who navigate this world with smug certainty; the truly wise concede their fallibility up front, and keep learning from their mistakes.
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Editor's Letter: The upside to creative destruction
feature For music fans, there is an upside to creative destruction. On a Woodstock stage recently, I watched a friend stretch her lungs in some of the open space left by the industry’s retreat.
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feature Barack Obama and generational transcendence
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Editor's Letter: Some perspective on the word "mastermind"
feature Why are we calling thugs, zealots, and swindlers masterminds?
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feature Exoticism is in the beholder’s eye.
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Editor's Letter: The information consumer
feature May the new year bring us all more wisdom, and not quite so many zettabytes.
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Editor's Letter: Political swordsmanship
feature National politics, always a rough game, has devolved into something meaner, more personal—a blood feud. The primary agenda now is to score points, and to damage the other party whenever possible.
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