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Corporations far beyond Starbucks want to keep baristas out of unions. The ongoing barista strike also represents something much broader: a pitched battle against an executive and governance regime interlocked with a wider network of corporate power

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Thanks to YouTube, an idea discredited thousands of years ago attracts die-hards, grifters, and trolls. They even have their own convention.

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