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Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.

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  The US war on Iran ended up delivering Osama bin Laden's original strategic goal of ending American military presence in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula

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  Osama bin Laden's one concrete strategic goal was to end the American military presence in the Gulf and on the Arabian Peninsula. A generation later, Donald Trump's war on Iran has apparently delivered it for him

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Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.

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  Providing people with stable, home-like housing makes real progress toward ending homelessness, while cutting that spending drives homelessness back up

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  Finland made great progress towards eliminating homelessness by giving people houses which they could feel was home. Alas, right-wing government has cut some of the spending and is driving homelessness back up.

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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Choosing Pulley to encourage competition with Carta still results in ending up with Carta.

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  Pick Pulley to encourage competition to Carta. End up with Carta anyways.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  The United States needs general disengagement from the Middle East, including ending military adventures, dialing back support for allies including Israel, and rejecting Middle Eastern issues in domestic politics.

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  What the United States needs, now more than ever, is general disengagement from the Middle East — an end to military adventures, a dialing back of support for Middle Eastern “allies” (including Israel), and a forceful rejection of Middle Eastern issues in American domestic politics.

  Get the Middle East out of my politics!noahpinion.blog

Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.

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  A government's debt dynamics are a household's or a company's, except that it can print money and tax -- and those two powers are what change the ending.

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  The debt dynamics work the same for a central government as they do for a person or a company, except that a central government has a central bank that can print money (which devalues it) and it can take money away from people via taxes.

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Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.

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  A shift toward faster media formats changes how people read rather than ending reading altogether

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  Faster formats don't automatically destroy reading. They change it.

  Is the Age of Reading Actually Over?annhandley.com

Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.

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  Ending a temporary immigration status overnight, after people have built lives in reliance on it, does real harm to them and to their communities.

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  To shout “temporary” and pull the plug essentially overnight after immigrants have relied on the government’s representations that they should put their efforts and future into establishing a life in the United States wreaks unfair havoc on the lives of immigrants as well as the welfare of their communities.

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Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.

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  A human life has no overall narrative arc, so nothing is lost by refusing to see it as a story that needs an ending.

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  But there’s no overall narrative arc—it’s just been one thing after another.

  Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actuallysmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net

Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Software developer salaries reached stupidly high levels because of a scarcity of people who could build things, and that scarcity is ending.

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  there was a lack of intelligence, if you s- if you see it like that, of people building things, and that's why salaries of software developers reached stupidly high amounts and then will go away. There will still be a lot of demand for people that understand how to build things.

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Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.

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  Ending USAID is a humanitarian disaster that still does not doom growth in poor countries, because the flows were always far too small to drive it.

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  The potential end of USAID is an unfolding public health and humanitarian disaster, but it does not permanently doom the task of growth—in large part because these aid flows were far too small to begin with.

  A World Without Aid?global-developments.org

Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.

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  For what it is worth, this is the only one of his 25 odd novels Joe Pickett novels that left me disappointed in the ending. See what you think.

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President of Argentina since December 2023; economist and self-described libertarian.

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  Free-enterprise capitalism is not the cause of poverty but the only tool there is for ending hunger and poverty anywhere on earth.

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  La conclusión es obvia: lejos de ser la causa de nuestros problemas, el capitalismo de libre empresa, como sistema económico, es la única herramienta que tenemos para terminar con el hambre, la pobreza y la indigencia, a lo largo y a lo ancho de todo el planeta.

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.

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  Chip War

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  Great history of the semiconductor industry, starting in Silicon Valley and ending in Asia.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  Coda

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  Comic book mind candy fantasy. Superficially, this is a cynical, post-apocalyptic subversion of the Matter of Middle Earth. In fact, the hard-bitten surface merely conceals a core which actually believes in epic fantasy, both in the content and in the classical form (a trilogy ending in a eucatastrophe).

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