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Alexis Madrigal

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What Trump means for food activists

Alexis Madrigal
11/23/16 3:01pm
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As the shock grenade of his electoral college victory begins to wear off, the Donald Trump administration is now coming into focus. Rightfully, much of the emphasis has been on whether he'll follow through on the nastiest, most racist campaign promises he made.

A portrait of media venality in the Donald Trump era

Alexis Madrigal
11/10/16 2:53pm
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If you're an editor of a publication, the most important job you have is protecting and advocating for your people. That's the alpha and omega, the most important thing, the cherished principle of the guild.

Donald Trump has won. Come process with us next week in Oakland.

Alexis Madrigal
11/09/16 4:21pm
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Donald Trump won. Donald Trump won slinging invective at the very people that Real Future has addressed itself to: the diverse coalition of people who see a bright future for an inclusive America. Donald Trump won by dominating Twitter and Facebook, tools once thought to be the province of young liberals. Donald Trump…

How'd the polling go so, so, so wrong?

Alexis Madrigal
11/09/16 3:30pm
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If you looked at the forecasts from across the media (and even the RNC's own model) when polls closed Tuesday, Hillary Clinton had nothing to worry about. Many poll aggregators, like the Princeton Electoral Forecast and the HuffPollster, showed Clinton win probabilities of 98-99%.

When we look back at 2016, we'll see it was the year immigrants won, once and for all

Alexis Madrigal
11/08/16 1:06pm
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What an ugly year, no? Trumpism begetting Trumptakes on how the country was being ripped apart by the toxic American bundle of born-again nativism, old-school white racism, and "economic anxiety."

What if Twitter's future is becoming Facebook's live media app?

Alexis Madrigal
11/02/16 8:05am
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The suitors fell one by one. Disney. Alphabet. Salesforce.

Forget drones and spaceships: The Snapchat dogface filter is the future

Alexis Madrigal
11/01/16 7:55am
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So, Snap Inc. is going to be the next great tech IPO. Rumor has it that the company formerly known as Snapchat will raise $4 billion dollars from the public markets at a valuation of $25-35 billion.

A mesmerizing new short film about the ridiculousness of Trump's border wall

Alexis Madrigal
10/26/16 1:52pm
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The U.S.-Mexico border stretches 1,954 miles. Walking, I've covered a couple miles of it. Driving, maybe two dozen. Flying, about 50. Still, the size of it remains incomprehensible.

What I learned from a week at the Mexico border wall

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10/20/16 1:05pm
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It was not until our pilot grabbed the Cessna 172 by the propeller and pulled it to the gas pump at the tiny airfield that I started to get nervous about flying low along the US-Mexico border wall.

The inspirational faces of the RiseUp AS ONE concert at the Mexico border

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10/15/16 8:44pm
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Today, on the border here in San Diego just across from Tijuana, Univision and Fusion put on a massive concert for unity, featuring Andra Day, Juanes, Tigres del Norte, and many more. In a 2016 that’s seen rhetoric ranging from the merely divisive to the outright racist, we gathered here today to remind ourselves that…

Donald Trump and the truth about race and real estate in America

Alexis Madrigal
9/28/16 2:45pm
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Watching Donald Trump sputter and free associate through Monday's "debate" with Hillary Clinton, I was reminded of the two leading theories about his rise.

I got a magnet implanted into my finger for science, and it was amazingly weird

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4/06/16 5:43pm
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This is Episode 14 of Real Future, Fusion’s documentary series about technology and society. More episodes available at realfuture.tv.

Predictive Policing: the future of crime-fighting, or the future of racial profiling?

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3/24/16 7:19pm
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This is Episode 12 of Real Future, Fusion’s documentary series about technology and society. More episodes available at realfuture.tv.

I finally fixed my @$#@% Wifi. Here's how.

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3/11/16 2:27pm
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For years—literally years—I have struggled with the wifi in my house. It's not a big house, nor is it multi-level, nor is it made of some exotic material. And yet until last month, it had proven absolutely impossible to get consistent wifi if you moved from one spot to another.

His name is Zoltan, he wants to live forever, and he’s running for president

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2/03/16 4:17pm
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This is Episode 5 of Real Future, Fusion’s new documentary series about technology and society. Previous episodes available at realfuture.tv.

How drones saved this woman's life

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1/14/16 3:57pm
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This is Episode 2 of Real Future, Fusion's new documentary series about technology and society. (See Episode 1 here.) To be notified about new episodes, like Real Future on Facebook, or subscribe to the Real Future newsletter below.

Barack Obama, Technologist in Chief

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1/13/16 12:49am
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2016 must be a strange time to be the President of the United States. As with previous U.S. presidents, President Obama has at his disposal the awesome powers of the most formidable nation in history. His decisions have consequences for millions of people. He is loved, and he is hated.

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