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The collapse of the news industry is not an inevitable consequence of technology or market forces. It’s the result of policy mistakes over the past 40 years that the Biden administration is already taking measures to fix.

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The Russian leader has convinced his countrymen that Russia and Ukraine were always one, laying the rhetorical groundwork for a forever war.  

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