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Jon Skolnik’s Biography

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Jon Skolnik is a staff writer at Salon. His work has appeared in Current Affairs, The Baffler, The New York Daily News, and more.

Before this, Jon was a Reporting Intern with The New York Daily News, covering court, crime, politics, and human interest.

He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2019.

Jon Skolnik’s Journalist Portfolio

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How Self-Care Is Turning Into Self-Indulgence

How Self-Care Is Turning Into Self-Indulgence

Self-care began as a movement of ideas concerned with individual health and wellness. However, it is radicall…

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MR Online | Hollywood and the Pentagon are cheating on the American public

MR Online | Hollywood and the Pentagon are cheating on the American public

Most propaganda machines are not observable to the naked eye, but the military-entertainment complex hides in…

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The Art of the Lucrative Con in Right-Wing Celebrities

The Art of the Lucrative Con in Right-Wing Celebrities

Remember John Stossel, that slender mustachioed man whose shrill, facetious voice you were forced to endure l…

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Virtue by the Numbers

Virtue by the Numbers

If you were to randomly sample the websites of a hundred different multinational companies and guess which we…

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Teen stabbed, wounded in neck, during Brooklyn cellphone robbery

Teen stabbed, wounded in neck, during Brooklyn cellphone robbery

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck by a mugger who snatched his cellphone in Brooklyn early Tuesday, o…

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The teen, who is expected to recover, was walking on Atlantic Ave. near Euclid Ave. in East New York when the…

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The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into

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By Jon Skolnik
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BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. The general idea behind universal basic income (UBI) is almost as old as America itself. You can trace it back to 1797, when Thomas Paine argued for guaranteed payments in his political treatise “Agrarian Justice.” Fast forward to 2020, and Andrew Yang revived the idea with a “Freedom Dividend” during his failed presidential campaign.
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Sam’s Club: Inside Altman’s AI World, Featuring Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Peter Thiel

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By Jon Skolnik
| Vanity Fair Verified
Sam Altman really wants to be liked. “That is his superpower,” says Keach Hagey. “He’s very good at doing favors for people—getting people to see his vision. But he’s bad at telling people no.” That’s what the Wall Street Journal reporter has taken away from years of covering the tech innovator’s career and the rise of ChatGPT.
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Donald Trump, Silicon Valley, and the Neoliberal Roots of an Unlikely Alliance

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By Jon Skolnik
| Vanity Fair Verified
The story everyone’s heard about the Cold War is that capitalism won out. The fall of the Berlin Wall, it goes, extinguished the last embers of communism, while the flames of neoliberalism blazed on. But that’s not the story that all neoliberals actually believed, according to Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, a rousing relitigation of the 1990s’ ideological scorecard.
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