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1. The Players on the Eve of Destruction

"And so across the sea, the old stormclouds gather again."

From Noah Smith .

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-players-on-the-eve-of-destruction


2. Does Morality Do Us Any Good?

Does real moral progress can come only if we give up on moralism??It's not so easy.

From Nikhil Krishnan.

https://archive.md/MdX2w


3. The Dawn of the Anti-Woke Era

The American, and other, electorates, are undergoing a social and demographic revolution.

From Christopher Caldwell (note: with whom I disagree on everything).

https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2024/12/dawn-anti-woke-era


4. Congo Sues Apple Over Blood Minerals

The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple and its French and Belgian subsidiaries for using conflict minerals in its supply chain.

https://africanstream.media/congo-sues-apple-over-blood-minerals/


5. Philanthropy by the Numbers

"What happens to our capacity for meaningful collective action when we think of civic life in such depersonalized and quantified terms?"

From Aaron Horvath .

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/in-need-of-repair/articles/philanthropy-by-the-numbers


6. Stealing Success: How IP Theft Built Nations

On how industrial espionage, IP laws, and development strategies shape economic power

From Yaw Asamoah .

https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/stealing-success-how-ip-theft-built


7. Ford and Musk. They Made Cars. They Backed Fascists.

"Time was when a comparison of Henry Ford and Elon Musk would have focused on their respective roles in revolutionizing automaking."

From Harold Meyerson .

https://prospect.org/power/2025-01-06-ford-musk-made-cars-backed-fascists/


8. One Of You.

Remembering Aaron Swartz.

From Pablo Peniche .

https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/01/03/one-of-you/


9. A Mom Asked for Public School Board Records. They Charged Her $33 Million.

Parents are suing schools to find out what their kids are learning. Schools are suing parents to shut them up. How did we get here?

From Josh Code and Frannie Block .

https://www.thefp.com/p/mom-asks-for-public-school-records-33-million-foia


10. Lonely Graves, Scattered Bones.

"The bones lie scattered across the desert floor, close to the beach. Along with some tattered clothes, a single banknote and a sun-bleached identity card, they are the only remains of a young Ethiopian man who risked everything for the chance of a better life in Saudi Arabia. Wearing a surgical mask, Dr Youssouf Moussa, from the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), gathers them into a bundle that he buries in a makeshift grave."

From Fred Harter .

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/10/migration-eastern-corridor-ethiopia-saudi-arabia-yemen-murder-kidnap-migrants-fastest-growing-route

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