Math Men, Heiko Maas, Disappear Online, Mass Shootings, Defense Work - Five Things - Issue #207

Ken Auletta on how the targeted advertising of tech companies like Google and Facebook have supplanted more traditional marketing, and what this shift means for the future of data privacy.

Heiko Maas, the new foreign minister, is a diplomacy novice. That hasn’t stopped him from revolutionizing his country’s foreign policy.

Worried about what’s out there a…