The NewCo Five — Rapacious Capitalism FTL!

Each week NewCo Shift selects the top five stories you can’t miss.

Harare, Zimbabwe

1.Rapacious 20th century capitalism is thriving in the developing world (Michael Hobbes, Foreign Policy)

2. Maybe it’s time for a new map of the United States (Parag Khanna, New York Times)

3. In an age of bots, Silicon Valley needs more poets (Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post)

4. Are tech executives cut out to be statesmen? (Charlie Warzel, Buzzfeed)

5. Welcome to the era of corporations acting like people — people with a point of view about social justice. (James Surowiecki, The New Yorker)