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Wake Up, Europe
The continent must take charge of its own fate.
1 hr ago • Yascha Mounk
Text Is (Still) King
Why the written word will never die.
Jan 29 • Adam Mastroianni
This Week At Persuasion
Atul Gawande on The Good Fight! Plus, Francis Fukuyama on Donald Trump after Davos.
Jan 29 • Leonora Barclay
The American People Fact-Checked Their Government
The response to the killing of Alex Pretti shows the internet at its best.
Jan 28 • Jacob Mchangama
When Ambiguity is No Longer Strategic
Once, this approach prevented conflict between two world heavyweights. No longer.
Jan 28 • Shahn Louis
You Should Read Colleen Hoover
Yes, really.
Jan 27 • Elizabeth Kaye Cook and Melanie Jennings
Atul Gawande on Medicine and Mortality
Yascha Mounk and Atul Gawande discuss how a simple system can improve patient outcomes.
Jan 27 • Yascha Mounk
1:22:10
America Is Now a Family Business
Trump is transforming the constitutional republic into a patrimonial regime before our eyes.
Jan 26 • Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein
Lincoln Would Reject “Heritage America”
He’d ask us to remember what truly makes us American.
Jan 26 • Dhriti Jagadish
They Keep Lying To Us
Two dead Americans, federal agents running amok, and an impending constitutional crisis.
Jan 25 • Sam Kahn
After Davos
Trump chickened out. Now Europe needs to press its advantage.
Jan 24 • Francis Fukuyama
Gašper Beguš on Why Language Doesn’t Make Humans Special
Yascha Mounk and Gašper Beguš also talk about what whale communication and the recent progress on AI tell us about the human brain.
Jan 24 • Yascha Mounk
1:17:34
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