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Vanity Fair: “This Could Be the End of Facebook” 2018

November 06, 2017

Vanity Fair: “This Could Be the End of Facebook” 2018

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It’s worth recalling, of course, that it wasn’t the makers of Tylenol who put cyanide in the pills that killed seven innocent people; nevert...

The Guardian: “Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace” 2018

October 15, 2017

The Guardian: “Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace” 2018

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The real explanation for the past decades of failed peace negotiations is not mistaken tactics or imperfect circumstances, but that no strat...

Ars Technica: “Finding North America’s lost medieval city” 2018

October 01, 2017

Ars Technica: “Finding North America’s lost medieval city” 2018

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My first find was a slab of red pottery that crumbled to dust in my fingers. “Don’t worry about that,” Baires assured me. “It’s just unfired...

Politico Magazine: “The Trade Deal we just Threw Overboard” 2018

Politico Magazine: “The Trade Deal we just Threw Overboard” 2018

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Similarly, in the original NAFTA talks, Canada had refused to even consider opening up its heavily protected dairy, poultry and egg markets ...

The Atlantic: “Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria” 2018

The Atlantic: “Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria” 2018

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By 2002, it seemed to Page like the time might be ripe to come back to books. With that 40-minute number in mind, he approached the Universi...

The New Yorker: “Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War” 2018

The New Yorker: “Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War” 2018

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The level of tension has alarmed experienced hands on both sides. What we have is a situation in which the strong leader of a relatively wea...

Vanity Fair: “The Inside Story of the Kushner-Bannon Civil War” 2018

Vanity Fair: “The Inside Story of the Kushner-Bannon Civil War” 2018

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As everyone knows, the president himself is inordinately engaged with cable news, and his roots as an entertainer lie in reality television....

The Los Angeles Review of Books: “America, America” 2018

The Los Angeles Review of Books: “America, America” 2018

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One of the most alarming aspects of the rise of Trump is (or should have been) his embrace of the Orwellian lie. This also cannot be normali...

The Atlantic: “The American Leader in the Islamic State” 2018

February 27, 2017

The Atlantic: “The American Leader in the Islamic State” 2018

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The Yahya Tim described to me was a sad figure, a sheep who had strayed into a wicked flock. Above all, he was easily manipulated. This, fo...

The New York Times: “A Tax Overhaul would be Great in Theory. Here’s why it’s so hard in Practice” 2018

February 16, 2017

The New York Times: “A Tax Overhaul would be Great in Theory. Here’s why it’s so hard in Practice” 2018

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A short list of the plan’s potential benefits looks awesome: It would give companies more incentive to keep jobs in the United States, less...

The Guardian: “Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy” 2018

February 13, 2017

The Guardian: “Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy” 2018

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Trump’s incessant repetition of the phrase has led many writers since the election to argue that the secret to his victory was a backlash a...

Lawfare: “It’s Not Foreigners who are plotting here: What the Data really show” 2018

February 10, 2017

Lawfare: “It’s Not Foreigners who are plotting here: What the Data really show” 2018

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Since January 2015, the FBI has also arrested more anti-immigrant American citizens plotting violent attacks on Muslims within the U.S. tha...

The New York Times: “‘A Conservative Climate Solution’: Republican Group calls for Carbon Tax” 2018

February 10, 2017

The New York Times: “‘A Conservative Climate Solution’: Republican Group calls for Carbon Tax” 2018

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In an interview, Mr. Baker said that the plan followed classic conservative principles of free-market solutions and small government. He su...

The Independent: “Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’” 2018

February 07, 2017

The Independent: “Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’” 2018

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We wanted to unite all the people who were writers, who were musicians, who were artists, to demonstrate that the West and the United State...

SFist: “Wildly Inaccurate Muni Wait Time Predictions will continue for weeks in Major Glitch” 2018

February 04, 2017

SFist: “Wildly Inaccurate Muni Wait Time Predictions will continue for weeks in Major Glitch” 2018

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Muni officials wrote to the SFMTA blog to explain the problem: NextMuni, which is a customized name for the third-party vehicle tracking s...

The New Yorker: “Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency” 2018

December 17, 2016

The New Yorker: “Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency” 2018

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The new media ecosystem “means everything is true and nothing is true,” Obama told me later. “An explanation of climate change from a Nobel...

Politico Magazine: ‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’ 2018

November 26, 2016

Politico Magazine: ‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’ 2018

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Ari Fleischer : As we were flying out of Sarasota, we were able to get some TV reception. They broke for commercial. I couldn’t believe it....

The New York Times: “The Right Way to Resist Trump” 2018

November 21, 2016

The New York Times: “The Right Way to Resist Trump” 2018

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Mr. Berlusconi was able to govern Italy for as long as he did mostly thanks to the incompetence of his opposition. It was so rabidly obsess...

Michael Moore: “5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win” 2018

November 13, 2016

Michael Moore: “5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win” 2018

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Never in my life have I wanted to be proven wrong more than I do right now. I can see what you’re doing right now. You’re shaking your hea...

The Atlantic: “The Obama Doctrine” 2018

October 07, 2016

The Atlantic: “The Obama Doctrine” 2018

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Obama has come to a number of dovetailing conclusions about the world, and about America’s role in it. The first is that the Middle East is...