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America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral
As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.
This by @edyong209 is excellent.
https://t.co/RLV2WPreBO
Engels August 26 1870
MacMahon's plan is not that of "a strategist, but of an “Algérien,” used to fight irregulars; not of a soldier, but of a political and military adventurer … It is the Second Empire all over. To keep up appearances, to hide defeat"
https://t.co/335es6umdw
Remarkable report by @BuzzFeed
On the prison camp complex built by China in Xinjiang: 260 structures built since 2017 and bearing the hallmarks of fortified detention compounds
https://t.co/iqdU6Mgp0c
Remarkable report by @BuzzFeed
On the prison camp complex built by China in Xinjiang: 260 structures built since 2017 and bearing the hallmarks of fortified detention compounds
https://t.co/iqdU6Mgp0c
"Underlying much of UAE MBZ’s regional policy is suspicion of mass politics. Arab spring, seen from Abu Dhabi, brought chaos not hope.”
Egypt is test case. How can "Dubai formula" work in a lower middle-income nation of 100 m? Good by @TheEconomist
https://t.co/OOeTDZeeKW
I just learned from reading Daniel Yergin’s latest (sic) that Santa Rita is the patron saint of impossible, hopeless cases - what a fantastic idea. Apparently St Jude caters to the same crowd.
https://t.co/KsfOHHNHRl.
"Turkey is coming “about as close as it gets” to a “classic first generation emerging market financial crisis”.” Something will have to give. Will it be depreciation or credit crunch? @Brad_Setser anchors a great piece by @laurapitel
https://t.co/uyfUai2dKX
"The EU’s foreign policy is a botched Kevin Costner project: they built it, but nobody came. An eu foreign policy exists only so far as member states allow it”. Nice from Charlemagne.
https://t.co/xAwdKqy1Gi
“Stalin murdered nine million people, while Yale’s Art History Department is offering four, rather than two, 100-level courses. The parallel is imprecise, to say the least.”
One thing I REALLY miss about Yale is having Tim Barringer as a colleague!
https://t.co/mqUi8Bkw7x