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“Paw Patrol”, a children’s cartoon about a pack of do-gooder dogs, seems innocuous at a glance (if you can stand the grating music). But its detractors call it neoliberal pawpaganda. Our Back Story columnist argues that the debate is about more than culture-war nonsense.
Elsewhere, artificial intelligence is increasingly capable of doing the sorts of customer-support tasks often handled by offshore workers. But in the Philippines—the world’s call-centre capital—business has held up better than expected. Why?
Finally, something owned by Elon Musk crashed this week (and we’re not talking about his SpaceX shares). What was it? Test your knowledge of the headlines with our news quiz. | 
