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Tony Wagner

Newsletter Editor

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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.

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Trump's situation isn't new — presidential conflicts of interest date back to George Washington

by Tony Wagner
Sep 26, 2018
A closer look at Washington's finances, slaves and the conflicts of interest that came with them.
First U.S. President George Washington and 45th President Donald Trump
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10 things you didn't know were in the Library of Congress

by Tony Wagner
Sep 25, 2018
You don't have to go to D.C. to explore one of the biggest libraries in the world.
You don't have to dig around in the archives to explore the Library of Congress.
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The Clinton impeachment: Where are they now?

by Tony Wagner
Aug 7, 2018
Introducing, or reintroducing, some of the characters you'll meet on season two of "Slow Burn."
Reporters in a press room in the U.S. Capitol watch as the videotaped testimony of Monica Lewinsky is played in the Senate during the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton on Feb. 6, 1999.
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How Wisconsin became the ginseng state — and part of the trade war

by Tony Wagner
Jul 31, 2018
Almost all the ginseng grown in America comes from the state, and the majority of that crop gets exported to China. It's the perfect target for retaliatory tariffs.
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Five things to know about the World Trade Organization

by Tony Wagner
Jul 16, 2018
The U.S. and China have both brought new complaints to the WTO.
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How to be a Lego designer

by Eliza Mills and Tony Wagner
Jun 29, 2018
The company's vice president of design left fashion for his "ultimate childhood dream" of working with the plastic bricks.
Husband and wife Annie and Ed Diment put the final bricks in place on their 400,000-piece "Ice Age" display at a Lego exhibition in London in 2015. The woolly mammoth took nine weeks to build.
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Let's do the numbers on the Paralympic Games

by Tony Wagner
Mar 9, 2018
They're hard to find on cable or streaming, but worth watching.
Joe Howard of the United States celebrates a gold-medal win against Norway in sledge hockey during the Salt Lake City Winter Paralympic Games in Utah in 2002.
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Why aren't falconers allowed in the movies anymore?

by Tony Wagner
Mar 1, 2018
Technically, they never were.
A still from "The Royal Tenenbaums," which isn't about falconry, but features a falcon as a major plot point.
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Counting pages of regulations is a waste of time (and paper)

by Tony Wagner
Jan 19, 2018
Politicians on both sides of the aisle will use page counts to demonstrate regulatory burden. It's not an exact science.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell points to a stack of papers representing what he said are the regulations associated with former President Barack Obama's health care reform as he speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, in 2013.
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"Star Wars" economics: What it takes to turn a planet into an insane superweapon

by Tony Wagner
Dec 15, 2017
Let's do the numbers on Starkiller Base.
Starkiller Base, in all its sun-extinguishing, planet-destroying glory.
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