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- The archives of an unfulfilled genius (The New Yorker).
- The blinding clarity of John Le Carre (The Nation).
- Labour power is the key to racial equity (The New Republic).
- The most influential Americans over 80 (Slate).
- The worst hacks of 2020, a surreal pandemic year (Wired).
- Visualising 2021 (Council on Foreign Relations).
- Five things to watch in 2021 (CSIS).
- Command and control in U.S. naval competition with China (RAND Corporation).
- Nina Turner’s vision (Vanity Fair).
- The DC political monopoly just doesn’t get it (Counterpunch).
- Michael Cohen forecasts Trump’s future (Vanity Fair).
- Dr Fauci, Straussian (Marginal Revolution).
- The movies that mattered in 2020 (The New Yorker).
- The dumbest moments of the Trump Presidency (Slate).
- The 20 most underrated movies of the last 20 years (Wired).
- We’re outsourcing our self-awareness to Silicon Valley (The New Republic).
- The cyber balancing act (Council on Foreign Relations).
- Five things to watch in 2021 (CSIS).
- After the Taliban (Hudson Institute).
- Teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights educational inequity (RAND Corporation).
- The year of living COVIDly (The Thesis Whisperer).
- How Leonora Carrington feminised surrealism (The New Yorker).
- Where nationalism has no answers (The Atlantic).
- Make media small again (The New Republic).
- How misinformation is distorting COVID policies and behaviours (Brookings Institution).
- Multilateralism and U.S. policy in the Middle East (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).
- Could carbon dioxide be turned into jet fuel? (Wired).
- Writing about violence during the pandemic (Duck of Minerva).
- After the pandemic, a pile of IOUs (Bloomberg).
- Joe Biden discovers Russia (American Enterprise Institute).
- China’s rebel historians (The Atlantic).
- When a virus is the cure (The New Yorker).
- Republican senators have finally congratulated Joe Biden – but it’s too little, too late (New Statesman).
- A new way to manage the growing global refugee situation (RAND Corporation).
- Major US companies lobby to get their workers vaccinated early (SFGate).
- These recent hacks look really bad. How should America respond? (MotherJones).
- Re privacy wars, sue for peace (Overcoming Bias).
- Six paths to a more resilient world (Council on Foreign Relations).
- Facebook/Apple spat (Ritholtz).
- Global forecast 2021 (CSIS).
- The most American religion (The Atlantic).
- Reconstructing a pandemic (The New Yorker).
- How science scrambled to decipher the coronavirus (New Scientist).
- How oddsmakers make a killing off gullible Trump supporters (Slate).
- Russia’s hack wasn’t cyberwar: that complicates US strategy (Wired).
- The 8 types of people you meet at the Trump hotel (MotherJones).
- The sources of Chinese conduct: a debate (The National Interest).
- Autonomous vehicles and the future of auto insurance (RAND Corporation).
- The 5 stories that shaped the streaming industry this year (New York Magazine).
- Time: the history and future of everything (Ritholtz).
- Are IPO price pops signs of market irrationality? (Marginal Revolution).
- Russia’s hacking frenzy is a reckoning (Wired).
- Despite its challenges, remote learning is here to stay (RAND Corporation).
- Risky (housing) business (Brookings Institution).
- How will Biden handle the Middle East? (Council on Foreign Relations).
- A stock trader’s guide to the global COVID vaccine rollout (Bloomberg).
- What if you could do it all over? (The New Yorker).
- Mutual aid can’t do it alone (The Nation).
- The future of towns (Demos).
- Goodbye 2020, hello 2021 (CSIS).
- Just before COVID-19, American migration hit a 73-year low (Brookings Institution).
- How Cyberpunk 2077 sold a promise – and then rigged the system (Wired).
- Inelastic demand (Marginal Revolution).
- Being a Democrat on China’s doorstep (The Atlantic).
- Can America leave this abusive relationship? (Slate).
- The year that killed the native mascot (The New Republic).
- COVID-19 vaccination: expect the unexpected (RAND Corporation).
- Trump’s coup attempt isn’t over (The New Yorker).
- What Biden can do to boost the economy without any help from Congress (Reason).
- How 2020 shaped US-China relations (Council on Foreign Relations).
- John le Carre knew England’s secrets (The Atlantic).
- John le Carre missed nothing (The New Yorker).
- The streaming wars could finally end in 2021 (Wired).
- Trump handed a medical pardon to Rudy Giuliani (Slate).
- The Electoral College won’t stop the lunatic right (Vanity Fair).
- What if scientists already know how to prevent the next pandemic? (The Nation).
- Collective action problems with testing and vaccines (Marginal Revolution).
- How Biden distributes the vaccine will define his Presidency (The New Republic).
- Tiny four-bit computers are all you need now to train AI (MIT Technology Review).
- Hollywood still can’t figure out how to adapt The Stand (Reason).
- The vaccine is here. Now for the hard part (The Atlantic).
- The American fetish for elderly elites (The New Republic).
- Remembering John le Carre (The New Yorker).
- I read all 23 John le Carre novels (Slate).
- Watch the first COVID-19 shipments leave the warehouse (MotherJones).
- Why the EU would prefer a no-deal Brexit to a deal that undermines its social model (New Statesman).
- Remote work impact on ending the Great Stagnation? (Marginal Revolution).
- Social proof, but of what? (Overcoming Bias).
- A new era for U.S. alliances (CSIS).
- Why Biden’s climate envoy will matter (Council on Foreign Relations).
- Fox News is in trouble (The New Republic).
- What will Joe Biden’s China strategy look like? (The National Interest).
- The dark side of Big Tech’s funding for AI research (Wired).
- Will Biden give in to the Hydroxy Effect (National Review).
- Do we need to abolish Child Protection Services? (MotherJones).
- So when can I get the COVID vaccine? (The Nation).
- Ancient humans may have hibernated to survive brutal glacial winters (New Scientist).
- Who won the Presidency, America? (Slate).
- A political obituary for Donald Trump (The Atlantic).
- How is Biden’s presidential transition going? (Brookings Institution).