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Omni-American, staff writer at The Atlantic, founding editor of The Best of Journalism–subscribe here:

Joined February 2008
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  1. Jan 2

    Just don't go on to invade Mexico, that would be icing.

    If the next presidential election reveals the U.S. hurtling toward possible violence and autocracy, should Canada try to intervene?
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  2. Jan 2

    And so it came to be that the strategic maple syrup reserve was poured onto the steps of the U.S. Capitol in 2024, making them too slippery to ascend as electoral votes were certified inside.

    If the next presidential election reveals the U.S. hurtling toward possible violence and autocracy, should Canada try to intervene?
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    Jan 1

    The Intercept names Moderna and BioNTech executives on its list of the year’s worst Americans. Speechless.

    The pandemic has turned nine pharma executives and investors into billionaires. This has only been possible thanks to a massive government intervention in the market via monopoly patent protection — for vaccines largely developed via government funding.
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  4. Jan 2

    Resolved: Joe Biden should announce an Operation Warp Speed for a pan-coronavirus vaccine. Thoughts?

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  5. Jan 2

    Loosing dogs on protesters is bad.

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    A police officer exerts little effort to restrain his police dog as it mauls a protester in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where tens of thousands have come out to protest the new lockdown that was put in place despite a full vaccination rate over 75%.
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  6. Jan 2

    No, we want property owners to be permitted to build on them rather than being forced to stop.

    Replying to @cafedujord
    And what turns people "YIMBY"? It's the lust for other people's property. (YIMBYS don't actually own backyards, they want to force people to build on them).
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    Jan 2

    This is the most extraordinary piece I’ve read in a long time, terrifying and fearless and beautiful and otherworldly, with OUTSTANDING visuals. I’ll link it this week on but do enjoy it now too. h/t

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  8. Jan 1

    From the Economist: "The first reliable records of an official mission from Japan to China date to 238ad, when a Japanese queen dispatched a delegation to China’s Wei kingdom, offering as tribute ten slaves." Depressing to ponder how long humans practiced slavery.

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  9. Dec 31

    Feliz 2022 is winning

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  10. Dec 31

    NYE TV is so comically bad! Is it like this every year?

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  11. Dec 31

    Happy 2022, Back Easters.

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  12. Dec 31

    Betty White, who just died, was born the same year as Doris Day, Jack Kerouac, and Charles Mingus.

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  13. 31 Dec 2021

    The success of individualist countries versus non-individualist countries in producing effective vaccines suggests that the analysis below significantly underrates the benefits of that comportment.

    The real problem? Covid ignited a public health crisis in a country drunk on the myth of individualism when only collective effort and selflessness can win the day. Differences in risk tolerance is a part of this. But the heart of it is the lie that we are only individuals.
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    31 Dec 2021

    New piece on the way the FDA's institutional biases left us with a shortage of rapid Covid tests that also cost far more than they should.

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    30 Dec 2021

    I saw the phrase "a constant impulse to overleap the process of becoming genuinely sure of something to get to the part where you're smug about it" somewhere and can't stop thinking about it.

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  16. 30 Dec 2021

    I'm grateful to for the kind mention—and I'm also impressed, year after year, that he finds great stuff I never saw, despite my surveying the web weekly for great fodder. Never miss his Sidney Awards:

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  17. 30 Dec 2021

    Easily my best article from the last year:

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  18. 29 Dec 2021

    Note that this is a discussion about the Omicron variant, not Covid-19 generally. Obviously, New Zealand outperformed the U.S. w/r/t Alpha and Delta variants.

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  19. 29 Dec 2021

    For all of you missing the point of this correct Tweet: look at New Zealand's general record on Covid-19, geographic isolation and restrictions. If Omicron turns out to run through their population, it suggests stopping its spread in e.g. the U.S. was always hopeless.

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    29 Dec 2021

    wow amazing to see that there is literally no mistake from history too dumb to mindlessly repeat

    We have a powerful weapon to fight inflation: price controls. It’s time we use it | Isabella Weber
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