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Analysis of geopolitics, economy, and society, mostly by Dan Perry, former Cairo-based Mideast Editor and London-based Europe-Africa Editor of the Associated Press. Supporting reason, culture and the liberal order now beset from all sides.
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The Age of Exhaustion (opens the original)
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Hello from New York City! In today’s episode of Critical Conditions, Claire and I talk about political exhaustion, the strange mood in America a month before the midterms, and whether people have become so overwhelmed by the daily barrage from the Trump administration that they have simply begun tuning it out.And a reminder: Our two-for-one subscription offer expires today. If you’ve been thinking about subscribing, this is your last chance to get two subscriptions for the price of one. So click
September in Review — and a Two-for-One Offer (opens the original)
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Calling AI “Superintelligence” Is Authentically Dumb (opens the original)
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Herzog’s Pardon of Killer Crystallizes Eisenkot-Netanyahu Choice (opens the original)
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All Xi Wrote? (opens the original)
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The multi-event, multi-day weekend summit between Xi Jinping and Trump is about considerably more than tariffs, rare earths, semiconductors or the usual choreography of great-power diplomacy. It brings together the leaders of the world’s two most consequential powers at a moment when they are competing not only for economic and technological supremacy, but over rival visions of how societies should be organized. China offers authoritarian control coupled with rising prosperity; the United States
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