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Alec MacGillis

Alec MacGillis

@AlecMacGillis

alecmacgillis.com

Reporter @ProPublica. FULFILLMENT: Winning and Losing in One-Click America. 'Like Leadbelly says, no use for the bourgeois towns.' alec.macgillis@propublica.org

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Lens Rankings

Journalism

#202 0.000744 The Information
#216 0.000650 The Dispatch
#251 0.000637 Foreign Policy
#305 0.000378 The Atlantic
#398 0.000302 New Yorker
#486 0.000283 Recode
#545 0.000224 Ars Technica
#673 0.000251 Wall Street Journal
#764 0.000195 The Intercept
#825 0.000221 The New York Times
#892 0.000102 The Daily Beast
#915 0.000107 Washington Post
#1453 0.000094 The Los Angeles Times
#1499 0.000088 Bloomberg Opinion
#1528 0.000014 Reuters
#1658 0.000001 Newsmax
#1661 0.000001 OANN
#1732 0.000018 The Economist
#1793 0.000052 The New York Post
#1894 0.000002 Stat News
#2249 0.000002 The Verge
#2303 0.000008 Techcrunch
#2925 0.000027 Wired
#3454 0.000002 CNBC
#4723 0.000002 Financial Times
#5425 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5656 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6909 0.000002 VICE

Think Tanks

#251 0.000637 Niskanen Center
#308 0.000438 American Enterprise Institute
#308 0.000438 National Bureau of Economic Research
#970 0.000167 Mercatus Center
#1416 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1470 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1488 0.000101 Brookings
#1546 0.000114 Earth Institute
#1591 0.000097 Center for American Progress
#1669 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1867 0.000068 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1898 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2354 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2525 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2622 0.000016 Hudson Institute
#3387 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4004 0.000022 Hoover Institution
#4166 0.000020 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#4256 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6690 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7669 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#8329 0.000011 Council on Foreign Relations

Culture and Political Economy

#226 0.000427 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#250 0.000636 Bismark Analysis
#748 0.000210 Moderate Conservatism
#945 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#993 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1111 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1138 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1177 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1230 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1247 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1269 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1313 0.000062 Harper's Open Letter
#1492 0.000002 350.org
#1677 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1922 0.000052 Persuasion Community
#2214 0.000043 Rationality
#2361 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2794 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#2798 0.000021 Social Epistemology
#2958 0.000038 Ecomodernists
#3006 0.000037 Progress Studies
#3269 0.000023 The Long Now Foundation
#3401 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3672 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#3725 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4096 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4516 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4557 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5233 0.000001 EFF
#5358 0.000011 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#5751 0.000001 Anarachists
#7301 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7799 0.000001 Degrowth

Venture Capital

#872 0.000224 Homebrew
#975 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1043 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1484 0.000002 Accel
#1590 0.000079 Village Global
#1887 0.000002 Sequioa
#2393 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2406 0.000001 Bessemer
#2617 0.000042 Initialized Capital
#2850 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#2939 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3063 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3453 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#3722 0.000014 Khosla Ventures
#7439 0.000009 A16Z

system

#870 0.000167 Baseline
#1306 0.000094 Reality-Based Community
#2681 0.000051 Think Tanks

Science

#1441 0.000125 ClimateTwitter
#1540 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1912 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3725 0.000010 Epidemiology Journalism
#3729 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#7931 0.000005 EconTwitter
#8255 0.000001 Biotech

Informal Community

#8969 0.000012 Founders

Crypto

#991 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1121 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1178 0.000002 Polkadot
#1980 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2972 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3079 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3124 0.000001 Cosmos
#3802 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#3899 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5123 0.000001 Ethereum
#5531 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6134 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8115 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#8607 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#1119 0.000002 Rust
#1823 0.000001 Zig

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