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- The false promise of anti-racism books (The Atlantic).
- Trump has brought America’s dirty wars home (The New Republic).
- How a star professor built a distance-learning empire (The New Yorker).
- Trump’s COVID performance is sinking his Presidency (National Review).
- The new age of autocrats (New Statesman).
- Beyond the Open Skies Treaty (Duck of Minerva).
- We need dystopian fiction more than ever (Slate).
- How will COVID be remembered? (Wired).
- Deadly terrorist threats (RAND Corporation).
- Alarm signals of our authoritarian age (Financial Times).
- Economic competition in the 21st century (RAND Corporation).
- The only person who’s figured out how to interview Trump (The New Republic).
- The stranded babies of the pandemic (The New Yorker).
- The dangerous world of COVID conspiracy theories (Slate).
- How NASA launched a revolution in biology (The Atlantic).
- The race for a COVID-19 vaccine (New Statesman).
- China’s tech ambitions and the internet (American Enterprise Institute).
- Does Warren still have a shot at V.P.? (Vanity Fair).
- Buying your local newspaper out of a chain (Poynter).
- America needs another bailout (New York Magazine).
- John Lewis was an American founder (The Atlantic).
- The forever war over war literature (The New Republic).
- What is distance learning for? (The New Yorker).
- How the second wave broke (The Saturday Paper).
- Sir Martin Franklin of Mariposa Capital speaks (Ritholtz).
- Distortions in the fabric of deterrence (War on the Rocks).
- US society is on hold (New Statesman).
- With fear and favour (The Nation).
- Could war with Iran be an October surprise? (New York Magazine).
- Why the UK banned Huawei (Council on Foreign Relations).
- A second coronavirus death surge is coming (The Atlantic).
- Disney, Apple are pawns of China says US Attorney-General (Bloomberg).
- Nuclear tests have changed but they never really stopped (Wired).
- Trump’s losing; will Republicans abandon him? (The New Yorker).
- Could movie theaters stay shut until 2021? (Vanity Fair).
- COVID, economy, politics (Ritholtz).
- The big hack keeps getting stranger and stranger (Slate).
- Cities are becoming climate death traps (The New Republic).
- The effect of students loans on college persistence (National Bureau of Economic Research).
- Lies through which we tell the truth (War on the Rocks).
- Russia’s trolls and Campaign 2020 (RAND Corporation).
- The 1968 Washington civil disturbance (American Enterprise Institute).
- America should prepare for a double pandemic (The Atlantic).
- How food media created monsters in the kitchen (The New Republic).
- How much is a college campus worth? (Bloomberg).
- The Palace Letters solve a 45-year-old Australian mystery (Slate).
- Llamas and fighting COVID-19 (Wired).
- Racial justice is everyone’s work (Tricycle).
- How Pompeo’s focus on religion could recast US rights policy (Christian Science Monitor).
- Philippe Sands on the Uighurs (New Statesman).
- The United States needs a new foreign policy (The Atlantic).
- How to plan a space mission (The New Yorker).
- It’s time to tell a new story about coronavirus (The Nation).
- QAnon’s dark obsessions are merging with mainstream conservatism (The New Republic).
- How Sweden screwed up (Slate).
- The impact of Victoria’s second wave (The Saturday Paper).
- Poker and the psychology of uncertainty (Wired).
- The virus in the digital domain (Duck of Minerva).
- Why did the New York Times seek to silence Bari Weiss? (National Interest).
- End of the golden decade (New Statesman).
- Slouching toward a U.S.-China trade deal (Council on Foreign Relations).
- The Supreme Court brings the Presidency back from a lawless brink (The New Republic).
- Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s war against the media (The New Yorker).
- How a history book would describe 2020 so far (The Atlantic Monthly).
- Protest and survive! (The Nation).
- Will we recognise life on Mars when we see it? (Wired).
- The political genius of John Roberts (Slate).
- Navigating uncertainty (Christian Science Monitor).
- Rachel’s story: close to home (Demos).
- Wormhole escalation in the new nuclear age (Texas National Security Review).
- What happens if President Trump contracts COVID-19? (Brookings Institution).
- Testing the “China shock” (Cato Institute).
- Pylon: America’s best rock band (Slate).
- The obscure treaty that could kill a global green recovery (The New Republic).
- Mary Trump and me: the source who got away (MotherJones).
- End of the golden decade (New Statesman).
- What does gravity weigh? (New Scientist).
- The media monsters in the national dialog (Wired).
- Where are US-Russia relations headed? (National Interest).
- How coronavirus is blowing up American higher education (Vanity Fair).
- The American obsession with conspiracy theories, explained (The New Republic).
- Why China wants Trump to win (The Atlantic Monthly).
- How not to be an academic asshole during COVID (The Thesis Whisperer).
- Can our ballots be both secret and secure? (The New Yorker).
- Between war and capitulation (American Enterprise Institute).
- How Steve Reich made music out of white complicity (MotherJones).
- Meritocracy without meeting (The National Review).
- A mathematician’s guide to how contagion spreads (Wired).
- Cooperative ownership (The Nation).
- The remaking of Comedy Central (New York Magazine).
- China and money laundering loophole (Hudson Institute).
- The economy is not going back to normal (Slate).
- Americans are living in an alternative history (The Atlantic).
- The people killed the pipelines (The New Republic).
- The epic Siberian journey to solve a mass extinction mystery (Wired).
- The West’s internationalism and China (New Statesman).
- A different kind of Wall Street deal (Vanity Fair).
- What Facebook and the oil industry have in common (The New Yorker).
- A shattered nation isn’t buying Trump’s angry nationalism (The Nation).
- ICE tells foreign students to leave the country if their schools are going online-only (MotherJones).