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UPS Warehouse (KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)

A "warehouse" by any other name

María Paula Rubiano A. - Grist
Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, April 7, 2017. (Getty/Jim Watson)

Trump falls behind China in tech war

Dilip Hiro - TomDispatch.com
Children get excited by the artificial snow spewing from the "World's Tallest live-cut Christmas Tree," standing 115 feet and decorated with some 18,000 multi-colored LED lights, at the Citadel Outlets shopping plaza in Los Angeles, California on December 17, 2019. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

The Amazon Prime effect

Grant Alexander Wilson - The Conversation
FILE- In this Dec. 19, 2018, file photo packages await delivery inside of a UPS truck in Baltimore. United Parcel Service Inc. reports financial results Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Trump tariffs are create jobs—for Canada

Lydia DePillis - ProPublica
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Under-skin microchips: Future of work?

Nicole Karlis
Mary Meeker (Getty/Mike Windle)

How Silicon Valley thinks: A primer

Keith A. Spencer
(AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

"Slavery gets s**t done" tees on Amazon

Gabriel Bell
(AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Threats to the world economy stablity

Deborah James - Alternet
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Shop till you flop

Angelo Young
(Constantine Pankin/Shutterstock)

Girl Scout cookies go digital

Lindsay Abrams
In this May 21, 2012 file photo, men walk past the corporate logo at the headquarters compound of Alibaba Group in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Alibaba Group is aiming to raise $1 billion in a long-awaited IPO likely to have ripple effects across the Internet. ((AP Photo/File))

Sarah Gray
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Richard Phillips - The Globalist
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Barbara Ortutay