Hackernews posts about AmEx

1. How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack (krebsonsecurity.com)
   1176 points by todsacerdoti 23 days ago | 917 comments
2. America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back (www.molsonhart.com)
   816 points by putzdown 7 days ago | 977 comments
3. Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers (prospect.org)
   451 points by leotravis10 5 days ago | 227 comments
4. The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans (www.rollingstone.com)
   327 points by Avshalom 18 days ago | 193 comments
5. When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed (www.theguardian.com)
   267 points by giuliomagnifico 24 days ago | 257 comments
6. American Disruption (stratechery.com)
   239 points by shishy 13 days ago | 200 comments
7. Hacking the call records of millions of Americans (evanconnelly.github.io)
   156 points by voxadam 20 days ago | 33 comments
8. America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era (www.theatlantic.com)
   151 points by pmags 12 days ago | 198 comments
9. North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover (www.jsg.utexas.edu)
   144 points by jandrewrogers 17 days ago | 36 comments
10. Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans (arstechnica.com)
    120 points by zdw 18 days ago | 84 comments
11. Scammers Steal $1T a Year – Mostly from Americans (www.wired.com)
    107 points by vinni2 24 days ago | 90 comments
12. Why America now eats a crazy number of avocados (www.wsj.com)
    90 points by fortran77 24 days ago | 109 comments
13. Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories (2018) (www.nytimes.com)
    89 points by perihelions 15 days ago | 43 comments
14. Private Equity Is Coming for America's $12T in Retirement Savings (www.bloomberg.com)
    87 points by mooreds 23 days ago | 103 comments
15. The Columbian Orator taught nineteenth-century Americans how to speak (www.neh.gov)
    86 points by samclemens 13 days ago | 19 comments
16. Buffett: America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out from Under Us [pdf] (2003) (www.berkshirehathaway.com)
    81 points by yeknoda 16 days ago | 83 comments
17. France's new high-speed train has Americans asking: Why can't we have that? (grist.org)
    80 points by devonnull 12 days ago | 143 comments
18. University of Toronto Snags Yale Professors as Canada Raids American Brain Trust (deanblundell.substack.com)
    79 points by newaccountlol 26 days ago | 52 comments
19. How the American Medical Association Screws Doctors (www.thebignewsletter.com)
    74 points by toomuchtodo 26 days ago | 90 comments
20. "Adulting" courses in America (www.economist.com)
    73 points by helsinkiandrew 9 days ago | 74 comments
21. It's the hottest car company. You can't buy one in America (www.cnn.com)
    70 points by rvnx 23 days ago | 78 comments
22. America's financial system came close to the brink (www.economist.com)
    68 points by iancmceachern 11 days ago | 50 comments
23. China Can Have It All – China is currently winner of America's self-sabotage (minnalander.substack.com)
    63 points by INGELRII 3 days ago | 29 comments
24. Small Town America vs. Big Box Stores (www.strongtowns.org)
    58 points by spking 13 days ago | 73 comments
25. The loneliest people (and places) in America (www.washingtonpost.com)
    57 points by wallflower 28 days ago | 58 comments
26. U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia (www.nbcnews.com)
    57 points by shitter 5 days ago | 25 comments
27. Ames Shovel and Tool Catalog of Shovels, Spades and Scoops (1926) [pdf] (stonehill-website.s3.amazonaws.com)
    52 points by NaOH 13 days ago | 17 comments
28. Are Americans Still Welcome in Europe? (blog.ricksteves.com)
    51 points by ranit 12 days ago | 96 comments
29. America's astonishing act of self-harm (www.ft.com)
    48 points by mooreds 18 days ago | 24 comments
30. Orphan tsunami of 1700–Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in America (2015) (pubs.usgs.gov)
    48 points by Tomte 25 days ago | 13 comments