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May 31

15m 41s

Senator Chris Murphy Wants You to Join a...

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch

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Chris Murphy’s book, Crisis of the Common Good, is out now

-Murphy opens his book by dunking on his son’s NHL prospects

-Pitching the common good

-Trump is not the disease. He’s the symptom

-Buy more stuff, feel worse, repeat until democracy collapses

-Kids, phones and the algorithmic hell machine

-Congress wants to regulate tech. Congress may want to log on first

-Can In…

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