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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (April 1–April 7)

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This week in political economy.       Facebook acknowledged this week that the Cambridge Analytica data breach affected 87 million users (reportedly including 2.7 million Europeans)—37...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 24-March 31)

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This week in political economy.       Still mired in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook’s terrible month became worse this week after BuzzFeed published a 2016...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 17-March 24)

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This week in political economy.     The “techlash” against digital platforms went into hyperdrive this week, as Facebook became increasingly embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 10-March 17)

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This week in political economy.     A federal appeals court voided the Department of Labor's “fiduciary rule,” an Obama-era rule that instructed financial professionals like...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 3-March 10)

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This week in political economy.     ProPublica has created a searchable database of 2,475 political appointees by the Trump administration, the result of “a year...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 24–March 3)

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This week in political economy.       Italy’s elections are on Sunday, and with the polls being inconclusive and the reemergence of former PM Silvio Berlusconi...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 17–Feb. 24)

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This week in political economy.     Is the US economy being strangled by a lack of competition? In the Harvard Business Review, David Wessel provides...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 10–Feb. 17)

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This week in political economy. Yesterday's New York Times editorial: “The terror that has gripped their elected officials … is fear of the wealthy gun...
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Case 2000: How Netanyahu and Israel’s Most Powerful Media Mogul Planned to Subvert the Market for News and Ideas

Guy Rolnik
It doesn’t involve a high-profile American billionaire, and yet of the two cases on which the police recommended indicting Israel’s prime minister, “Case 2000”...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 2–Feb. 10)

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This week in political economy.     India’s competition authority imposed a 1.36 billion rupees ($21.1 million) fine on Google after it found the company guilty...
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