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America’s Outrage Machine Is Spinning Us Into a Death Spiral
NO GOING BACK
Used to be, we could turn the outrage machine off after work. Now, technology and social media have made it inescapable. Is it destroying democracy?
Matt Lewis
Senior Columnist
Published
Jul. 12 2019
5:16AM EDT
opinion
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Matt Lewis
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