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Tony Wagner

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Tony Wagner is Marketplace's newsletter editor. He writes the daily email newsletter and edits several others, including Marketplace's Crash Courses. Previously he was a digital producer who helped launch “Make Me Smart,” “The Uncertain Hour” and “This Is Uncomfortable.” After eight years at Marketplace headquarters in LA, he recently relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Latest from Tony Wagner

  • Jun 18, 2019

    What’s in a face?

    A live demonstration uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition in dense crowd spatial-temporal technology at the Horizon Robotics exhibit at the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES 2019 in January.
    DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images

    San Francisco banned government agencies from using facial recognition last month, citing civil liberty concerns. It’s a baby step in regulating technology that could make some aspects of life safer and more convenient, but comes with a host of unintended consequences for surveillance, profiling, discrimination and so on. But the recognition tech is already out […]

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  • Jun 11, 2019

    The internet as we know it rests on 26 words from 1996

    The internet as we know it rests on 26 words from 1996
    ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/Getty Images

    Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act established that online platforms are not responsible for what users post on them. Can that stand today?

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  • Jun 4, 2019

    Your crash course on the Indian economy

    An Indian supporter of Bharatiya Janata Party jumps in the air as he celebrates along with others on the vote results day for India's general election in Siliguri on May 23, 2019.
    DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/Getty Images

    Newly reelected Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces significant challenges, including the highest unemployment in 45 years and losing special trade status with the U.S.

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  • May 28, 2019

    Huawei and the tech cold war

    A Huawei engineer displays parts in the research and development area of the Bantian campus on April 12, 2019 in Shenzhen, China.
    Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

    The fight over Chinese tech could change the race for 5G and rewire the global economy.

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  • May 21, 2019

    Antitrust the process

    Employees stand in an Apple retail store in Grand Central Terminal, January 3, 2019 in New York City.
    Drew Angerer/Getty Images

    The conversation around antitrust is expanding, and tech giants could get caught up in it.

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  • May 14, 2019

    How to survive climate change

    A man on a rooftop looks at approaching flames as the Springs fire continues to grow on May 3, 2013, near Camarillo, California.
    David McNew/Getty Images

    It may be too late to avoid the worst consequences of our warming planet. But we could still adapt to them.

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  • May 8, 2019

    What. The. Fed.

    WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 28: Chairman of the Federal Reserve nominee Jerome Powell testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee November 28, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Powell will succeed Janet Yellen to be the next Federal Reserve Board chairman if confirmed by the Senate. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

    Seriously … what’s a central bank to do? The Federal Reserve’s got quite the puzzle on its hands.

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  • Apr 30, 2019

    CRISPR for beginners

    CRISPR for beginners
    Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

    The gene-editing tool is ushering in a biotech revolution. Here's what you need to know.

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  • Apr 23, 2019

    What does “Medicare for all” actually look like?

    U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a health care rally at the 2017 Convention of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee on September 22, 2017 in San Francisco, California. 
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    As the idea inches toward the mainstream, we unpack how it could affect the economy.

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  • Apr 18, 2019

    Kicking the habit

    Nurse Joie Cantrell checks the Naloxone supply in December at the Virginia Department of Health in Wise. Every participant of the needle exchange program is offered Naloxone, which can reverse an overdose.
    Julia Rendleman for Marketplace

    Many people in Wise County agree that they can’t jail their way out of a drug epidemic, but there’s a lot less agreement on what to do instead. And we find out what happened to Joey Ballard.

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