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- Obituary for a failed Presidency (The New Yorker).
- The Presidency is a bad job (The New Republic).
- Why Trump’s “1776 Report” is dangerous (Slate).
- Let’s not venerate or expand the post-9/11 response (Reason).
- The ongoing collapse of the world’s aquifers (Wired).
- It all began with Russia (MotherJones).
- Farewell to a monster (The Nation).
- A rising tide of violence (New York Review of Books).
- Trump pardons Steve Bannon, dozens of others (San Francisco Chronicle).
- Writing off Afghanistan: does Biden have a choice? (CSIS).
- The long prologue to the Capitol Hill riot (The New Yorker).
- Phil Spector transformed pop music and destroyed lives (Slate).
- Trump and ‘the cyber’ (Wired).
- Deirdre McCloskey has a new economics book coming out (Marginal Revolution).
- Trump failed to erase Obama’s legacy (New York Magazine).
- Biden and climate change (MotherJones).
- How can corporate leaders defend democracy? (Council on Foreign Relations).
- COVID-19 and US global partnership (Brookings Institution).
- QAnon is destroying the GOP from within (The Atlantic).
- MLK/FBI offers insights about Martin Luther King Jr (Vanity Fair).
- MLK/FBI – a powerful new film about Dr Martin Luther King and the FBI.
- Capitol siege video from The New Yorker reporter Luke Mogelson.
- The Republican plot to rig the 2024 election (The New Republic).
- The coronavirus is evolving before our eyes (The Atlantic).
- Climate change needs an Operation Warp Speed (Wired).
- Karl Rove: Trump more likely to be convicted if Giuliani defends him (Slate).
- Economist Tyler Cowen: what I’ve been reading (Marginal Revolution).
- Why Trump isn’t a fascist (New Statesman).
- What Madison Cawthorn saw at the Insurrection (New York Magazine).
- After Trump, is American democracy doomed by populism (Council on Foreign Relations).
- Trump’s been umplugged. Now what? (The New Yorker).
- Is there any chance the Senate will convict? (Slate).
- This impeachment is different (The Atlantic).
- TikTok and Sea Chanteys (Wired).
- Biden will inherit healthy Indo-Pacific alliances (RAND Corporation).
- They’ve been calling for bloodshed the whole time (New York Magazine).
- Addressing white supremacy in political science (Duck of Minerva).
- The Capitol, fortified (The Nation).
- Conflicts to watch in 2021 (Council on Foreign Relations).
- How Edward Hopper became an artist for the pandemic age (New Statesman).
- Tyler Cowen: the volatility of events is correlated (and not in a good way) (Bloomberg).
- Trump’s second impeachment was just as awful as the original (The New Yorker).
- An important book that I’m using for a Postdoc proposal in 2021.
- The War on Terror only created more terror in America (The New Republic).
- Europeans recognise Trumpism for what it is (The Atlantic).
- Who dies for Donald Trump? (New York Magazine).
- Republicans still don’t get it (Slate).
- Scientists have sequenced dire wolf DNA (Wired).
- The other attack inside the Capitol that we need to talk about (Fast Company).
- Bury me furious (The Nation).
- What’s wrong with the way we work (The New Yorker).
- Fred Kaplan: are we ready for the next round of insurrection? (Slate).
- The undoing of China’s economic miracle (The Atlantic).
- Trump made the stupidest possible argument on Mike Pence (New York Magazine).
- Don’t forget who the pre-attack rally sponsors were (MotherJones).
- Trump still has cable news (The New Republic).
- Social networks and economic mobility (Brookings Institution).
- What the Biden Presidency means for US economic policy (Hoover Institution).
- The Battle of Capitol Hill (RAND Corporation).
- Profound rebuilding needed to shore up U.S. democracy (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).
- Trump can’t be allowed to escape justice again (The New Yorker).
- The Democrats’ stark, historic choice (The New Republic).
- What new details tell us about the Capitol rioters’ plans (Slate).
- The alien among us: searching for the meaning of David Bowie (New Statesman).
- Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has tested positive for COVID (New York Magazine).
- If you are going to survive, you must prepare to fail (Wired).
- COVID-19 saved Morrison, but climate is the real test (The Saturday Paper).
- Did optics beat out Capitol security? (Vanity Fair).
- Lana Del Ray talks about new album, Capitol riots, haters (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
- I’m fine with it, but economist Tyler Cowen asks: Should Twitter have banned Donald Trump? (Marginal Revolution).
- We need more than deplatforming (Mozilla Foundation).
- The populists finally break with Trump (The Atlantic).
- The case for removing Donald Trump (The New Yorker).
- D.C. put up with strict security for 20 years. It did nothing (Slate).
- Natural disasters cost the U.S. a record $22 billion in 2020 (Fast Company).
- Tyler Cowen: what I’ve been reading (Marginal Revolution).
- Nancy Pelosi outlines plan to remove Trump (MotherJones).
- The silence of the damned (New York Magazine).
- My book reading this week.
- Collusion with the far right is not unique to US Republicans (New Statesman).
- Congress confirms Biden’s win, defying mob attack (The New York Times).
- What I saw inside the Capitol riot (Slate).
- Trump’s reckoning – and America’s (The New Yorker).
- Is this how greatness ends? (The Atlantic).
- Climate change is turning cities into ovens (Wired).
- America and the politics of pain (New Statesman).
- Donald Trump is now a terrorist leader (MotherJones).
- How Biden can save the USPS (The Nation).
- How the Government can make life better in 2021 (Reason).
- A dark day in America (The National Review).
- A 2018 OECD brief on social mobility.
- The United States faces barriers to intergenerational social mobility.
- Why social mobility matters in Australia.
- How much social mobility do people really want?
- The mutated virus is a ticking time bomb (The Atlantic).
- Trump’s alarming call to battle in Georgia (The New Yorker).
- Making sense of the Facebook menace (The New Republic).
- Trump will get away with it and leave us with the mess (Slate).
- A 25-year old bet comes due: has tech destroyed society? (Wired).
- Net Assessment goes to the movies (War on the Rocks).