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The Other Side of the Border Fight

Before President Trump flew to McAllen, Texas, to cast the border as a hellscape of criminals frothing to illegally enter the United States, his Mexican counterpart visited the region. Last Saturday in Ciudad Juarez, Andrés Manuel López Obrador laid out his vision to create jobs, cut corporate taxes and raise …

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Streaming Was Heavily Concentrated (Again) in 2018

The 2017 year-end report published by the data company BuzzAngle, which tracks music consumption, contained a disturbing statistic tucked away in the report: The most popular 10 percent of songs accounted for 99 percent of all audio streams. While the lucky 10 percent of tracks still encompassed a lot of …

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