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  1. 9 hours ago

    I don't know if that's true. But it's a form of social brittleness I hadn't considered before, and given the nature of modern communications, and how much more we can know (and fear) about something that hasn't even happened to us yet, it seems plausible.

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  2. 9 hours ago

    He notes that the black death would wipe out half a town's population and people would somehow keep going. Now, he says, "there would be catastrophic social disruption long before the number of cases reached 1%." The panic "would spread instantly and be impossible to contain."

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  3. 9 hours ago

    This interview with Martin Rees, Britain's royal astronomer, really fascinating. Particularly his idea that human society has become more vulnerable to panic.

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  4. 10 hours ago

    It's not all grim out there! Hell, it's not even mostly grim out there, at least not compared to the past.

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    12 hours ago

    1/ Ever wish you could give us a story assignment? Now you can. We’re launching a new show with Originals, and it’s unlike anything we’ve done before. We want your questions to drive our reporting:

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  6. 12 hours ago

    Excellent explainer on the Trump administration's leaked plan to take civil rights protections away from transgender people, and the legal and regulatory backdrop that makes it possible:

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  7. 13 hours ago

    Trump's enemy isn't the media. It's the truth.

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  8. 13 hours ago

    New pod with ! We talk election forecasts, what the House would look like without gerrymandering, what the midterms would look like if Hillary Clinton was president, and much more:

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  9. 14 hours ago

    This piece is great on the problem with political typology reports. What people say when asked a lot of questions about political values is not a good guide to how they act when their coalitions, identities, and interests are threatened.

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  10. 17 hours ago

    There’s a lot of great journalism being done right now, but I worry the media, as a whole, is making American politics worse, not better. We’re being used to fracture American democracy, and I don’t think we know how to stop. and I discuss:

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  11. 17 hours ago

    Cory Booker wants to close the wealth gap by giving lower-income kids up to $50,000 to use towards wealth-building purchases like a down payment on a home or college tuition:

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  12. 17 hours ago

    "Since the height of the crack cocaine epidemic and all of the racism associated with it in the 1980s, anti-black discrimination in hiring does not appear to have changed."

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  13. Oct 21

    "At every point, Gandhi still upends modern assumptions, insisting on the primacy of self-sacrifice over self-interest, individual obligations over individual rights, renunciation over consumption, and dying over killing."

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  14. Oct 21

    I had no idea how much Saudi money was sloshing around Silicon Valley:

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  15. Oct 21

    How does McKinsey justify helping authoritarian regimes identify dissidents to target? How do the people who work for McKinsey justify continuing to do so after learning that this is something their employer does?

    . helped the Saudi government identify some of their most vocal Twitter critics. What happened next will not surprise you.
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  16. Oct 21

    Right now, a normal administration would be bragging about its economic record. The Trump administration, with weeks to go before the election, wants a fight over whether trensgender people deserve civil rights protection.

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  17. Oct 20

    Appreciate both the kind words and fair critique! One recommendation in response: the latest episode of the Reckonings podcast has a great discussion with journalist on whether "objectivity" is just the subjectivity of the powerful:

    I'm gonna be a little troll-ish here but I gotta say 1. this episode of the show with was one of my favorites. If I were 22 years old now I'd be headed to a graduate program in media studies after listening to it. But.
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  18. Oct 19

    Imagine telling a Democrat in 2000 or 2004 about the 2020 primary. It's easy to miss how far Dems have moved.

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    Oct 19

    THREAD: 1/ I spent about a month speaking with over a dozen top nuclear experts about the real risks of nuclear war—and how one might kill us all. That culminated in long piece for Here’s what I learned:

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    Oct 19

    The joke about news in 2018 just being Madlibs is old but I still didn’t see “Jesse Jackson ‘88 shirts are now wildly popular in South Korea” coming

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