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- International Society of Political Psychology.
- My current reading for this week.
- The troubled history of psychiatry (The New Yorker).
- Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton on President Donald Trump (Writers Against Trump).
- George Orwell and the road to revolution (New Statesman).
- The late psychiatrist Jerrold M. Post on President Donald Trump (C-SPAN).
- The accused fraudster behind the Bitcoin boom (The New Republic).
- Pandemic year two (The Atlantic).
- Congress and control of the military (Brookings Institution).
- A guide to wokespeak (The National Review).
- The plague year (The New Yorker).
- The best songs of 2020, in one playlist (Slate).
- How your digital trail ends up in the police’s hands (Wired).
- The ground-breaking honesty of Joe Sacco’s comic journalism (The Nation).
- The way we were (Marginal Revolution).
- Requiem for a dream (Vanity Fair).
- Does the international liberal order have a future? (National Interest).
- What did we learn in 2020? (Reason).
- A Biden Presidency: global reactions (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).
- The urgent case for shrinking the economy (The New Republic).
- 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).
- Fauci on his hopes for post-vaccine life (Slate).
- A massive fraud operation stole millions from online accounts (Wired).
- Some notes on funniness (The New Yorker).
- What to do with your spare cash (Marginal Revolution).
- George Orwell and the road to revolution (New Statesman).
- The case for giving workers ownership rights (The New Republic).
- The most popular RAND research of 2020 (RAND Corporation).
- How Biden can take the high road on misinformation (Brookings Institution).
- Assessing China’s digital Silk Road (Council on Foreign Relations).
- Left of launch: artificial intelligence at the nuclear nexus (CSIS).
- 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).