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Oct
16

Who’s Going to Win the Election? Or, Politics in an Age of Collapse

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6 min read
Oct
14

The Vibe Gap, or Why the Election’s So Close

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7 min read
Oct
12

How I Feel About the Election

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9 min read
Oct
11

How I Feel Watching My Predictions Come True

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7 min read
Oct
09

Living at the Edge of Civilizational Risk

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6 min read
Oct
07

The Minimum Viable Future (Or How We Ended Up Here)

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7 min read
Oct
04

How to Keep a Democracy

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6 min read
Oct
03

The Election’s Central Question Is Here

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8 min read
Oct
02

The Debate, Why the Democrats Aren’t Winning, and Leadership in the 21st Century

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6 min read
Sep
30

What I Want (and Why)

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8 min read