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ALEXIS MADRIGAL
Senior editor at The Atlantic, author of the forthcoming book, Powering the Dream, @alexismadrigal, & UC Berkeley visiting scholar.
Out March 29 (Da Capo).
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Senior editor at The Atlantic, author of the forthcoming book, Powering the Dream, @alexismadrigal, & UC Berkeley visiting scholar.
Out March 29 (Da Capo).
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"And in disaster after disaster, at least since the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, those in power, those with guns and the force of law behind them, are too often more concerned for property than human life. In an emergency, people can, and do, die from those priorities. Or they get gunned down for minor thefts or imagined thefts. The media not only endorses such outcomes, but regularly, repeatedly, helps prepare the way for, and then eggs on, such a reaction."
