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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...
The gender equality paradox that wasn't
Spend enough time in online spaces, and you may come across a compelling — and counterintuitive — narrative: Sexism and repressive gender norms aren’t to blame for women being underrepresented in STEM fields relative to their population sha...
What's the state of PEPFAR now?
It’s been a year since the Trump administration dismantled USAID and severely disrupted the operations of PEPFAR, the global health program that prevented millions from dying of HIV and AIDS.
Dr. mike Reid served as PEPFAR’s Chief Science...
The case against randomized controlled trials
This article originally appeared in Issue 14: Risk. Subscribe to the print magazine by this Friday to receive our next issue, Work.
By Lennart Finke
In 1710, Scottish doctor John Arbuthnot presented a new proof for the existence of...
What is it like to live in a world you believe is about to end?
This article originally appeared in Issue 14: Risk. Subscribe to the print magazine by June 30th to receive our next issue, Work.
I opened my interviews for this article with a simple question: “How long do we have?”
Five years, or...
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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
Was a philosophy PhD student, left to work at AI Impacts, then Center on Long-Term Risk, then OpenAI. Quit OpenAI due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI. Now executive director of the AI Futures Project.
Editor in Chief of Asterisk Magazine
I write about global development, technological progress and AI. The other me writes fiction and criticism.
senior policy advocate @publicknowledge
Executive Director at the Breakthrough Institute. Ecomodernist. Promethean Hamiltonian Schumpeterian meliorist.
Writing about US-China AI, to one day not write about US-China AI.
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Co-founder and CEO of California YIMBY
What if we understood more things? Freelance Research Analyst @ North Sea Analytics
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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