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How diplomats see the world
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A few years into my Foreign Service career, a colleague leaked a falsehood to the press. I couldn’t fig...
What should we do about all this AI money?
Hundreds of billions in AI wealth will soon become liquid, marking what we hope will be the beginning of the biggest wave of tech philanthropy yet. This spring, a widely shared essay by Nan Ransohoff outlined the work that lies ahead: With...
What happens to countries that don't build frontier AI?
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Fear of AI disruption spreads in concentric circles. Outright frenzy inside the labs becomes intense distr...
How two socialist brothers helped automate America’s hardest job
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Demonstration of the cotton picker at the Delta Experiment Station, Mississippi, 31 August 19...
The politics of foreign aid
Julianne Weis worked at USAID for nearly eight years. When the agency effectively closed in 2025, she went to the Hill to start advocating for foreign aid. Julianne and Clara discuss:
- The current political situation of foreign aid...
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A magazine dedicated to clear writing and clear thinking, published from inside the worlds shaping the Bay Area. Subscribe in print: https://store.asteriskmag.com/.
The gradual supplanting of the natural by the just.
I'm the author of The Dignity of Dependence, as a well as Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. My substack, Other Feminisms, is about how to advocate for women as women in a world that treats us like defective men.
AI researcher turned lawyer trying to make AI go well. Prev: Harvard Law, Schwarzman Scholar, Microsoft Research, Princeton CS
Staff writer at The Economist. Previously in China, Harvard
Editor in Chief of Asterisk Magazine
I write about the political economy of advanced AI.
senior policy advocate @publicknowledge
A writer in DC
Writing about US-China AI, to one day not write about US-China AI.
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What if we understood more things? Freelance Research Analyst @ North Sea Analytics
I write about economics, housing, and whatever interests me at the moment.
I am writing a book about the NYC subway and a hopeful historical tale about outsiders who helped put the trains back on track.
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