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1. Facebook should pay all of us.
By Tim Wu in the New Yorker
2. Could Google could rig the 2016 election?
By Robert Epstein in Politico
3. Don’t be shocked. Amazon’s culture is the American workplace.
By Michael Cohen in the Boston Globe
4. For Putin, Crimea went from long lost relative to problem child.
By Carol Matlack in Bloomberg Business
5. Are Americans losing their right to walk?
By Antonia Malchik in Aeon
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