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The Crucial Years

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The Two Horsemen, Riding in Formation

Obviously the story of the moment is the sudden, coordinated bout of cold feet in the AI industry, whose leaders expressed support over the weekend for some kind of effort to slow down the pace of their R&D. This is something that’s never h...

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Facts on the ground

This will be an account of where we stand—mostly with regard to the new and much-touted UN report on climate change. But since it’s Labor Day, traditionally the start of fall campaigning (a quaint and lovely notion that), let’s start with t...

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Two Men

Wendell Berry, who died yesterday at the age of 92, was such a great man that I hardly know where to start. He was on the very short list of the best writers of our time: his essays on rural America were the words that launched ten thousand...

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So, Naomi Klein live today

If I have a skill, it’s writing. But I’ve heard that people are doing podcasts now—indeed, my wife, my daughter, and my son-in-law are all podcast experts. Feeling left out, I was very pleased when the peerless Ayana Johnson asked me if I m...

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The growing rumble

It’s been harder than usual for me to write these past few days, and that’s because the glacier collapse and subsequent calamity along the Tibet-Nepal border hit very hard. As it happens, I’ve stood in that border crossing where you’ve watc...

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