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The President is Equal Parts Moron and Monster

As we head towards the midterms, the president’s closing argument has mostly been about various people’s posteriors, but he has also taken the time to make several, um, substantive points.

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Elections should not be this important

This data on deforestation comes from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, but the invaluable Hannah Ritchie has overlaid them to show who was Brazil’s president at the time. Read her account here

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Are the peace movement and the climate movement the same thing?

It struck me the other day that ‘peace’ is a word we’re not using much at present. Our war in Iran is unpopular, for sure, but there’s not really a ‘peace movement’ to end it (though the midterm elections are in some measure a proxy for tha...

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Making the Decent the Enemy of the Desperate

A federal worker felling trees in DC with no environmental permit this weekend, in order to expand a golf course President Trump wants to use for holding championships.

I got a slightly queasy feeling the other day when someone sent me a...

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From Bad to Better

I have been open about feeling a little exhausted and despairing of late (if by open, one means publishing an essay about it on the Sunday oped page of the Times). Part of it is the ever-growing sense that AI is out-of-control (listen to Ez...

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