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  1. Issue · Sep 2, 2026

    August 2026 - Money Almost Won, Human Reserved, Inflammation & The Last Shift (opens the original)

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    “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”— Frederick Douglass, excerpt from a speech on “West India Emancipation,” August 4, 1857Abdul Wins the PrimaryThis was the first election watch party I had ever attended. It was an amazing evening, and an anxious one. Abdul’s lead shrank from 15 points to 12, then to 3, then to 1, and by the time people started leaving, nobody knew w

  2. Issue · Aug 1, 2026

    July 2026 - Money versus many, Lamine Yamal & Cockroaches in India (opens the original)

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    “For if we should perish, the ruthlessness of the foe would be only the secondary cause of the disaster. The primary cause would be that the strength of a giant nation was directed by eyes too blind to see all the hazards of the struggle; and the blindness would be induced not by some accident of nature or history but by hatred and vainglory.”—Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History, 1952I’m currently reading Going to Tehran by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, a must-read book o

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