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Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . Or just read on… Last week I wrote about how the Trump administration, spurred by Senato

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Photo by guenterguni / Getty Images . Medieval monks had a terrible time concentrating. And concentration was their lifelong work! Their tech was obviously different from ours. But their anxiety about

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Writer Milan Kundera has had Czech citizenship restored, 40 years after it was revoked and his books banned. Kundera is seen here in 2010 in Paris, where he has lived since leaving Czechoslovakia in 1

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For the past year, I've been on the trail of the secret life of our data. What happens when you put your iPhone to sleep at night? Does Amazon's Alexa eavesdrop on your family? Who gets to know where