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Call It the End

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By Patrick Iber, Yangyang Cheng, Gary Gerstle
| Dissent Magazine Verified
Call It the End Introducing our Summer 2026 issue on America at 250. Illustration by Tabitha Arnold No president of the United States will ever say it, but we know it to be true: at 250, the state of the union is not good. The semiquincentennial celebrations planned by the White House will not be a demonstration of unity. They will celebrate the domination of one part of the country over the other.
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How Taiwan Became the Chipmaker for the World

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By Yangyang Cheng
| The Nation Verified
Books & the Arts / January 19, 2026 Silicon Island How Taiwan became the chipmaker for the world How Taiwan Became the Chipmaker for the World A new book tells the story of the island-nation’s transformation into a central hub for technological development and manufacturing. Ad Policy (Hwa Cheng / Getty) This article appears in the February 2026 issue. When Donald Trump nominated Elbridge Colby as the undersecretary of defense for policy, the news stirred headlines in Taiwan.
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Complementarities, Network Effects, and the Antitrust Puzzle of Platform M&A

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By Yangyang Cheng, Daniel K Sokol, Carmelo Cennamo
| PYMNTS Verified
Network effects are central to both the success of digital platforms and the competition concerns. Large platforms have relied on mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) to expand their ecosystems, integrate technologies, and consolidate user bases. While such deals may accelerate innovation and improve services, they may also lock in end and business users to incumbents’ ecosystems and stifle competition. We argue that network effects are not monolithic, and link five types of complementarit ...
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