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Inside NYC’s Anti-Tech Luddite Renaissance Movement

Inside NYC’s Anti-Tech Luddite Renaissance Movement

You won’t find much about the modern Luddite movement online. By design, those embracing it are ditching smartphones and deleting their social media accounts. My editors, however, spotted a Substack post that mentioned a coming rally and dispatched me to learn more about this offline movement the only way you should: IRL. And so I found myself on a sunny …

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The tech antitrust renaissance may already be over

The tech antitrust renaissance may already be over

Around six years ago, a new rallying cry rippled through Washington: “Break Up Big Tech.” It was a slogan emblazoned on campaign posters, uttered at congressional hearings, and beginning, it seemed, to echo through the halls of the nation’s antitrust enforcers. Momentum in the legislatures eventually petered out, but the enforcers at the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission remained …

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Trump is promising a US manufacturing renaissance. Many experts are dubious | Trump tariffs

Trump is promising a US manufacturing renaissance. Many experts are dubious | Trump tariffs

Donald Trump’s hugely disruptive trade war is setting the stage for a manufacturing renaissance in the US, administration officials say. Outside the White House, many economists are skeptical. Global trade experts point to many reasons they believe the president’s tariffs will fail to bring about a major resurgence of manufacturing, among them: Trump’s erratic, constantly changing policies, his unfocused, across-the-board …

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