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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.

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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.

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    Jan 1

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

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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
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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.

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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. 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.

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    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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  15. Retweeted
    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. 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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  18. 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. 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

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