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Abe Newman (@abenewman.bsky.social)

W/Henry Farrell, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023/Penguin); Georgetown; This is a private account.

) and I have a new piece in [@wired.com](

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WIRED (@wired.com)

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) on the enshittification of American power. It repurposes arguments from our book, Underground Empire [amzn.to/3PbIyqX](https://amzn.to/3PbIyqX ) , and Cory Doctorow's idea of enshittification to explain how the Trump administration is trying to remake the world. [The Enshittification of Americ...](

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The Enshittification of American Power

First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

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