Trump, Kindle, Nation-States, NYC Subway, TV - Five Things - Issue #226

As the president prepares for nuclear talks, he lacks a close adviser with nuclear expertise. It’s one example of a marginalization of science in shaping federal policy.

In the Chinese city of Hengyang, we find a fatigued, disposable workforce assembling gadgets for Amazon, owned by the world’s richest man.

Nation-states came late to history, and there’s plenty of evidence to suggest they won’t make it to the end of the century.

American obsession with individual traffic.

This is huge.

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