The Enshittification of American Power
Plus: Alien life and the last words of a dying glacier (#537)
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Plus: Feminist exhaustion, the invention of the wheel and behind the scenes with an intimacy coördinator (#536)
See the dark world
+ Fun new laws to create chaos, and how we'll lose control of AI (#535)
4.5 Million Children
Plus: Why we need more taste and less cynicism (#534)
44 books curious minds wished they'd discovered sooner
Special books issue, curated by you.
The Fascist Playbook
Plus: 30 minutes with a stranger and how artificial intelligence will make us better humans (#533)
Yet weirdly, life goes on
Plus: Questions worth asking in uncertain times. (#532)
An ode to craft
Plus: The power of empathy and the tragedy of prevention (#531)
Special Books Edition
What's a book you wished you discovered sooner?
Welcome to the deeply bizarre now-now-soon
Plus: The value of moral ambition and why you're more likely to die on your birthday (#530)
Say the word
Plus: Being grateful for grief, Emojis in court and China's falling emissions (#529)
Facts and Egopinions
Plus: Understanding the Iberian blackout, India-Pakistan tensions, and 48 Things Women Hear In A Lifetime (#528)
The voices of 30 survivors
Plus: intensive parenting, global ambitions, and scaffolding for future thinking (#527)
Ready to go out into the big wide world
Also: You should open this newsletter right now, I'll explain why (#526)
What the comfort class doesn't get
State terror and how to find work you love (#525)
Back from the dead 🐺
Plus: borrowed beats, loaned lyrics, and the little hand that is everywhere. (#524)
Manosphere meets atmosphere
AI, DEI and why you shouldn't get surgery today. (#523)
Adolescence
Plus: A great new podcast series on the secret plot to invade Ukraine (#522)
Lonely but beautiful actions
Plus: the hidden power of introverts, and how AI is polluting the web (#221)
Yes, we can (improve lives with money)
Plus: A tour of Disney's secret test lab (#220)
You will not feel pain. We will be okay.
Elections, the authoritarian playbook, and an ode to the hardest working font in Manhattan (#519)
Hope is a performative emotion
Also: Grief, microplastics and a recipe against right-wing populism. (#518)
10 ways to think about these «peace negotiations»
Plus: Dishonest charts, regime change, and what it means to be a gardener. (#517)
Meditations in an Emergency
And why every organisation needs a keeper of the truth. (#516)