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Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of "World Without Mind" and "How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization."
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What Big Tech Wants Out of the Pandemic

The firms are all too eager to help the government manage the coronavirus crisis.

  • Franklin Foer, The Atlantic
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Putin Is Well on His Way to Stealing the Next Election

RIP democracy.

  • Franklin Foer, The Atlantic
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The Amazon Fires Reveal the Dysfunction of the Global Community

The case for territorial incursion in the Amazon is far stronger than the justifications for most war.

  • Franklin Foer, The Atlantic
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Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America

When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost.

  • Franklin Foer, The Atlantic
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How Trump Radicalized ICE

A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.

  • Franklin Foer, The Atlantic