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Broad Band

Dylan Schleicher Porchlight Book Company
A "computer" used to be a job description, not just a machine. At the time, most computers were women. Dylan Schleicher reviews a fascinating history of how "computers" helped make the computer networks that are so interwoven into contemporary life.

What’s Been Stopping the Left?

Dani Rodrik Project Syndicate
If progressive political parties had pursued a bolder agenda in the face of widening inequality and deepening economic anxiety, perhaps the rise of right-wing, nativist political movements might have been averted. So why didn't they?

Media Bits and Bytes - Sugar Mountain Edition

Portside
Media monopolization in a nutshell; Zuckerberg’s forked tongue; Fighting the strip mining of journalism; How old? That old; Privacy Badger; Righter than right