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...troubling development. The growing strength and pervasiveness of these platforms means their owners have significant power to impose their visions of what it means to be a citizen or worker in cities across the globe. [An honesty box selling jams and pickles by the side of a road] Can we trust an unregulated sharing economy? Airbnb, for example, seems free to distort...

...trouble attracting party heavyweights to Cleveland, many of the other speakers at conventions are rising stars being offered one of their earliest national platforms. Some have gone on to run for president and to win; there are few better examples than Barack Obama, whose remarkable 2004 speech launched him as a national figure. Transcript Bill Clinton, on the other hand,...