The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz

What you do online can help elect a president.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/the-secret-agenda-of-a-facebook-quiz.html?source=Snapzu

These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers

The economists are leveraging their academic prestige with secret reports justifying corporate concentration. Their predictions are often wrong and consumers pay the price.
Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/these-professors-make-more-than-thousand-bucks-hour-peddling-mega-mergers?source=Snapzu

The Physicist Who Sees Crime Networks

A lone Japanese scientist is discovering the shady ties that connect companies engaged in illegal trade. By Mark Harris.
Read more: https://backchannel.com/the-physicist-who-sees-crime-networks-fb6478536e8f#.lyzkk6g2a?source=Snapzu

A Secretive Billionaire’s Dreams of Creating America’s Foremost Guns Empire

There had been Big Pharma, and Big Oil, but never Big Gun. Stephen Feinberg’s Cerberus Capital set out to create it. By Stephen Witt.
Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/a-billionaires-dreams-of-creating-a-guns-empire.html?source=Snapzu

How to Fix the Art World, Part 1

Back in August my staff and I embarked on an epic project: we wanted to know what inhabitants of the art world think is wrong with it and how they would fix it. In the ensuing months we spoke with more than 50 individuals—artists and curators, critics and historians, art dealers and an art fair director—to gather a range of perspectives...
Read more: http://www.artnews.com/2016/11/18/how-to-fix-the-art-world-part-1/?source=Snapzu

Trump poised to violate Constitution his first day in office, George W. Bush’s ethics lawyer says

The Constitution doesn’t allow presidents to seek gifts from foreign agents.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-poised-to-violate-constitution-his-first-day-in-office-george-w-bushs-ethics-lawyer-says-73e14789a935#.dpltvc5ed?source=Snapzu

China and Sri Lanka: Between a Dream and a Nightmare

Colombo is realizing the unintended strategic consequences of closer ties with Beijing. By Jeff M. Smith.
Read more: http://thediplomat.com/2016/11/china-and-sri-lanka-between-a-dream-and-a-nightmare/?source=Snapzu