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November 23, 2025

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

This power elite was already used to ignoring the powerless. Redeeming a disgraced sex offender was a logical next step.
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Published on November 23, 2025 06:01

September 29, 2024

Book Review: ���Revenge of the Tipping Point,��� by Malcolm Gladwell

In ���Revenge of the Tipping Point,��� the best-selling author looks back at his old theories.
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Published on September 29, 2024 02:01

November 19, 2022

Musk, Bezos, Bankman-Fried, Trump: It Was a Bad Week for Billionaires

Musk, Bezos, Bankman-Fried, Trump: some of our most prominent billionaires laid waste to their carefully cultivated image as benevolent saviors.
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Published on November 19, 2022 13:55

October 17, 2022

A New Playbook for Saving Democracy, Defeating Fascism and Winning Elections

In the longer contest to tell the better story about America and draw people into that story, there is a great worry among organizers that the left is badly falling short.
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Published on October 17, 2022 07:53

Giridharadas Democracy Crisis Midterm

In the longer contest to tell the better story about America and draw people into that story, there is a great worry among organizers that the left is badly falling short.
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Published on October 17, 2022 02:00

April 26, 2022

Elon Musk Is a Problem Masquerading as a Solution

What happens when the incarnation of a problem buys the right to decide what the problem is and how to fix it?
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Published on April 26, 2022 02:00

September 9, 2021

Book Review: ���The Family Roe,��� by Joshua Prager

���The Family Roe,��� by Joshua Prager, is a nuanced, deeply reported portrait of Norma McCorvey, known to most Americans as Jane Roe, the plaintiff in the case that won abortion rights for U.S. women.
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Published on September 09, 2021 09:00

June 13, 2021

Warren Buffett and the Myth of the ���Good Billionaire���

There is no way to be a billionaire in America without taking advantage of a system predicated on cruelty.
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Published on June 13, 2021 08:00

January 26, 2021

Book Review: ���Let the Lord Sort Them,��� by Maurice Chammah

���Let the Lord Sort Them,��� by Maurice Chammah, relates the history of capital punishment in America, and why it is on its way out.
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Published on January 26, 2021 02:00

November 9, 2020

What Joe Biden Can Do as President

He has the power to make transformational progress look like ���C���mon Man��� common sense. Will he use it?
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Published on November 09, 2020 09:43