Month: September 2020

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Tuesday Links

  1. The Amy Coney Barrett discourse is a trap (The New Republic).
  2. The Fox News powder keg (The Atlantic).
  3. The students left behind by remote learning (The New Yorker).
  4. Decoupling: separation or divorce? (CSIS).
  5. Donald Trump’s taxes: will the $750 revelation matter? (New Statesman).
  6. Trump’s tax situation (Ritholtz).
  7. The most brazen trick Trump tried to pull on his taxes (Slate).
  8. The wealthy are the real welfare queens and Donald Trump is their king (MotherJones).
  9. Is Trump’s TikTok vendetta misplaced? (Vanity Fair).
  10. What’s going on with Brexit (Council on Foreign Relations).

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Monday Links

  1. Trump’s taxes show chronic losses and years of tax avoidance (New York Times).
  2. No other Western democracy allows this (The Atlantic).
  3. The unbearable realism of The Comey Rule (The New Republic).
  4. Would Biden or Trump end America’s forever wars? (New Statesman).
  5. Was the identity of Q really just revealed? Everything we know (Slate).
  6. Stacey Abrams on how we’ll beat back voter suppression (Wired).
  7. How corporations pillaged the free market (Ritholtz).
  8. The Magnus Carlsen slide deck (Twitter).
  9. The digital divide and COVID-19 (RAND Corporation).
  10. Inside the Outpost (CSIS).
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Friday Links

  1. Trump’s September outrages are testing the limits of shock (The New Yorker).
  2. Dumplings unwrapped (New Statesman).
  3. Bill Gates: the pandemic has erased years of progress (The Atlantic).
  4. How not to ruin your mail-in ballot (Slate).
  5. Solve for the Seattle equilibrium (Marginal Revolution).
  6. The forgotten feminists of the backlash decade (The New Republic).
  7. An Oscar contender considers the white working class (National Review).
  8. Justice, finally, for a war crime in El Salvador (The Nation).
  9. Trump is trashing the Constitution to stay in power (MotherJones).
  10. Mapping the U.S. pivot in Europe (Council on Foreign Relations).
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Thursday Links

  1. Freedom Day, 1963: A lost interview with James Baldwin (The New Yorker).
  2. The case for calling climate change “genocide” (The New Republic).
  3. The election that could break America (The Atlantic).
  4. Impeach Bill Barr (Slate).
  5. The 10 most useless phrases in financial markets (Ritholtz).
  6. Household net worth explodes: what are your thoughts? (The Reformed Broker).
  7. How close is a coronavirus vaccine? (Financial Times).
  8. Early pandemic bets paid off big for handful of Asia hedge funds (Bloomberg).
  9. Our nation of immigrants: the economics of immigration (Brookings Institution).
  10. Reset the table: food security (CSIS).
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Wednesday Links

  1. Is this how Biden blows it? (The Atlantic).
  2. We’ll never know the pandemic’s true toll on the working class (The New Republic).
  3. What should the Democrats do now? (Slate).
  4. A dangerous moment for the Supreme Court (The New Yorker).
  5. Where was the battery at Tesla’s battery day? (Wired).
  6. Why did I think she wouldn’t die? (New York Magazine).
  7. Future of the middle class (Brookings Institution).
  8. Key trends in the global economy through 2030 (CSIS).
  9. Rising hunger: facing a food-insecure world (Council on Foreign Relations).
  10. The day after: navigating a post-pandemic world (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).
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Tuesday Links

  1. The Nikola scandal is a cautionary tale (The New Republic).
  2. If you care about the court, don’t talk about it (The Atlantic).
  3. It’s not hypocrisy (Slate).
  4. How should America regulate TikTok and other Chinese tech companies? (Marginal Revolution).
  5. The cheating scandal that ripped the poker world apart (Wired).
  6. The human cost of the WeChat ban (MIT Technology Review).
  7. The legal fight awaiting us after the election (The New Yorker).
  8. McMaster on America’s enemies (Ritholtz).
  9. On publishing and open access (Duck of Minerva).
  10. Yanis Varoufakis’s diary (New Statesman).
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Monday Links

  1. The mighty Ruth Bader Ginsburg (The New Republic).
  2. McConnell is inventing excuses to grab RBG’s seat (Slate).
  3. 200,000 Americans are dead (The New Yorker).
  4. In search of a US beyond coronavirus (New Statesman).
  5. When the Republican Party was sane (Ritholtz).
  6. The U.S. is on the path to destruction (The Atlantic).
  7. Automation, training, and the middle class (Brookings Institution).
  8. My favourite new investing app on Earth (The Reformed Broker).
  9. Scenes from the Supreme Court vigil (New York Magazine).
  10. Deportation nation (New York Review of Books).
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Friday Links

  1. Corporate America and QAnon’s joint mission to let the world burn (The New Republic).
  2. Is Biden blowing it with Latino voters? (Slate).
  3. The Facebook defectors turning Trump’s strategy against him (Wired).
  4. Zoom fatigue and the new ways to party (The New Yorker).
  5. Noam Chomsky: the world is at the most dangerous moment in human history (New Statesman).
  6. Why U.S. wildfires will only get worse (Council on Foreign Relations).
  7. Affirming American leadership: a call to action (CSIS).
  8. The international game theory of vaccines (Marginal Revolution).
  9. The day after: navigating a post-pandemic world (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).
  10. Introducing the RAND space enterprise initiative (RAND Corporation).
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Thursday Links

  1. The recurring trauma of California’s wildfires (The New Yorker).
  2. The great British humbling (The Atlantic).
  3. A diversity of terrible bosses (The New Republic).
  4. The voting bloc most likely to make Trump a one-term President (Slate).
  5. Netflix’s Reed Hastings on broadening your horizons (Wired).
  6. U.S. trade and economic leadership in the next decade (CSIS).
  7. Trump wouldn’t change a thing (Vanity Fair).
  8. We need to go to Venus as soon as possible (MIT Technology Review).
  9. Live from New York once again (New York Magazine).
  10. Incentives matter, high school college football divorce edition (Marginal Revolution).
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Wednesday Links

  1. Broadcasting Joe Biden’s economic program (The New Yorker).
  2. The bunker magnates hate to say they told you so (The Atlantic).
  3. What really led to the collapse of Australia’s aged-care system (The Saturday Paper).
  4. The phrase that explains why the pandemic has been so devastating (Slate).
  5. The significance of the Israel-UAE deal (CSIS).
  6. How to make the UN relevant again (Council on Foreign Relations).
  7. Early Oscar buzz from a very strange season (Vanity Fair).
  8. Bill Gates on the pandemic (New York Magazine).
  9. Green vs. green: whose side are you on? (Marginal Revolution).
  10. The most hysterical worst-case election scenario (The New Republic).