Notes on the Stories We Tell
Ben Rhodes, Brad Lander, Raw AmericaThe world as it is and the world as it should be. Writing on politics and power, history and travel, books and the people I meet along the way.
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Red State Backlash
As Republicans lurch closer to an election that will be a referendum on Donald’s Trump takeover of their party and the country, they’re dusting off an old playbook. The bromides against trans athletes, migrant caravans, and Communists are g...
The Radiance: Finding Meaning in Troubling Times
What’s happened to America over the last decade escapes the tidy boundaries of political commentary. What we called “the news” feels like a relic from some other place and time, words and pictures that cannot encompass the unraveling around...
Is Anyone in Control of AI?
No one is in control.
At least that is what we are told. The leaders of AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI tell us only the government can slow them down. The government tells us that the market will determine the pace. The market is i...
The World of Security
The first time I wrote about 9/11 I cried.
It was a week or two after the attacks. I was a graduate student in creative writing at NYU, not far from Ground Zero. The air was filled with an acrid smell I will never forget, an odor of death...
Reckoning with War
Ten years ago this month, Barack Obama paid the first visit to Laos by a sitting American president. The visit carried a heavy weight: the United States turned Laos into the most heavily bombed country in the history of the world during the...
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Pod Save the World. New York Times. Author: All We Say, After the Fall, and the World As It Is. Former Obama speechwriter and deputy national security advisor. Knicks and Mets.
Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
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