March 8, 2022
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“One of the reasons it is hard to predict what the future looks like is because much of the future is movable. The thing we are trying to forecast is changed by…”
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Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels
“Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels This fall, Knopf will publish two interlinked books that are a thematic and…”
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“The Rise Of Z For the first week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there has been some general head-scratching from the international community, wondering where…”
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How are the Big Sanctions hurting Russia so far?
“We’re less than a week into the Big Sanctions , and already we’re starting to see considerable effects on the Russian economy and way of life. I’ll go through…”
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“1) De-escalation Pathways for the Ukrainian War, and How Big a Task this Will be for Negotiators: a 🧵 by a peace negotiator (long): 2) Nuclear conflict experts…”
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Russia’s impending doom of censorship and sanctions meant I had no choice but to flee
“Ukraine war – featured articles As I queued at a cash machine with another dozen disorientated Russians in Tbilisi, Georgia, a local man stopped, whistled at…”
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Russia, Blocked From the Global Internet, Plunges Into Digital Isolation
“Russian authorities and multinational companies have erected a digital barricade between the country and the West, erasing the last remnants of independent…”
March 5, 2022
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How Russians think, and why they do what they do
“Jyri sent me this 2018 lecture in Finnish (subtitled in English), given by a former Colonel working in military intelligence, with expertise in Russian…”
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The Russian Elite Can’t Stand the Sanctions
“The United States, United Kingdom, and European Union had barely announced sanctions on overseas Russian wealth when the oligarchs began to whine and protest.…”
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The Weapon the West Used Against Putin
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine looks like a horrific Cold War throwback. Once again, a strongman rules in Moscow, Russian tanks are rolling across borders, and a…”
March 3, 2022
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Why Do We Watch the Weather on TV While It Is Happening Just Outside?
“Screenland The strange allure of watching someone else stand in the blizzard. Credit… Photo illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban By March 2, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET…”
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Opinion | The ‘Disney’ for Boomers Puts Hedonism on Full Display
“Credit… Damon Winter/The New York Times Opinion The ‘Disney’ for Boomers Puts Hedonism on Full Display Credit… Damon Winter/The New York Times By Ms. Cottle…”
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“This is a free edition of Peacefield, a newsletter about the survival of liberal democracy in the United States, plus contrary, often curmudgeonly takes about…”
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The Ugly, Embarrassing Spectacle of ‘Milling’ Around Online
“No surprise, casual social-media chatter about the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been unhinged. I mean that almost literally: It’s as if an important door has…”
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Online, Americans Nuke Themselves
“Welcome to Galaxy Brain—a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology, media, culture, and big ideas. You can read what this is all about here . If you like…”
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Nuclear weapons: Why reducing the risk of nuclear war should be a key concern of our generation
“The consequences of nuclear war would be devastating. Much more should – and can – be done to reduce the risk that humanity will ever fight such a war. March…”
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Ukraine, Not the Ukraine: The Significance of Three Little Letters
“U.S. President Barack Obama stood at a local elementary school in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to tout his new budget proposal. But after his opening remarks ,…”
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“On Friday, as the world was waking up to the second day of the Ukrainian invasion, I found myself discussing the events in a text thread with an old friend.…”
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Russia Blocks Its Last Independent Television Channel
“Whenever TV Rain , Russia’s last independent television channel, was broadcasting live, the lights in its vast loft were dimmed and conversations were hushed,…”
March 2, 2022
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‘Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes
“Magazine Putin is trying to take down the entire world order, Fiona Hill said in an interview. But there are ways even ordinary Americans can fight back. Putin…”
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‘The damage is done’: Russians face economic point of no return
“As markets opened in a panic on Monday , many Russians rushed to local cashpoints in Moscow to retrieve their savings before the damage got any worse. “It said…”
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The Impossible Suddenly Became Possible
“History has accelerated ; the impossible has become possible. Shifts that no one imagined two weeks ago are unfolding with incredible speed. As it turns out,…”
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“Anti-war protesters gather in St. Petersburg against the invasion of Ukraine, February 27, 2022 Anton Vaganov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA On February 24, Russia…”
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Russia’s Looming Economic Collapse
“The war in Ukraine is being fought on two battlefields. The first battlefield is geographic. It is the land Russia is tearing up with tank treads and pounding…”
February 26, 2022
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My 13 Favorite Locked Room Mysteries
“As promised in my recent essay on locked room mysteries , I’m sharing a list of my 13 favorite examples of this subgenre. They are described below—in…”
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Volodymyr Zelensky’s astonishing transition from TV comic to wartime leader
“In a video posted to his Facebook page on Feb. 25 Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, says “we are all here” as he stands near the presidency building in…”
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Zelenskyy’s unlikely journey from comedy to Ukrainian hero
“WARSAW, Poland (AP) — When Volodymyr Zelenskyy was growing up in southeastern Ukraine, his Jewish family spoke Russian and his father once forbade the younger…”
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Experience: I’m a musician who became allergic to music
“I went to my GP, who said I had a small hole in my eardrum and prescribed antibiotics. The hole healed, but afterwards I began to find certain everyday noises…”
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A Medical Mystery Posed by Blurred Lanes
“David A. Kaplan faced a medical mystery over double vision. Credit… Al J. Thompson for The New York Times As I was driving during a cross-country road trip,…”
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Vladimir Putin, Russia’s resentful leader takes the world to war
“Growing up in a communal apartment in Leningrad, a young Vladimir Putin liked to chase rats across the stairwell with sticks. One day, he spotted a particularly…”