The Enshittification of American Power
Plus: Alien life and the last words of a dying glacier (#537)
Plus: Alien life and the last words of a dying glacier (#537)
Plus: Feminist exhaustion, the invention of the wheel and behind the scenes with an intimacy coördinator (#536)
+ Fun new laws to create chaos, and how we'll lose control of AI (#535)
Plus: Why we need more taste and less cynicism (#534)
Special books issue, curated by you.
Plus: 30 minutes with a stranger and how artificial intelligence will make us better humans (#533)
Plus: Questions worth asking in uncertain times. (#532)
Plus: The power of empathy and the tragedy of prevention (#531)
What's a book you wished you discovered sooner?
Plus: The value of moral ambition and why you're more likely to die on your birthday (#530)
Plus: Being grateful for grief, Emojis in court and China's falling emissions (#529)
Plus: Understanding the Iberian blackout, India-Pakistan tensions, and 48 Things Women Hear In A Lifetime (#528)
Plus: intensive parenting, global ambitions, and scaffolding for future thinking (#527)
Also: You should open this newsletter right now, I'll explain why (#526)
State terror and how to find work you love (#525)
Plus: borrowed beats, loaned lyrics, and the little hand that is everywhere. (#524)
AI, DEI and why you shouldn't get surgery today. (#523)
Plus: A great new podcast series on the secret plot to invade Ukraine (#522)
Plus: the hidden power of introverts, and how AI is polluting the web (#221)
Plus: A tour of Disney's secret test lab (#220)
Elections, the authoritarian playbook, and an ode to the hardest working font in Manhattan (#519)
Also: Grief, microplastics and a recipe against right-wing populism. (#518)
Plus: Dishonest charts, regime change, and what it means to be a gardener. (#517)
And why every organisation needs a keeper of the truth. (#516)