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Great piece in the newsletter today by the one and only @seamus-malekafzali.com on media cowardice in the aftermath of the American power grab in Venezuela
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When the media is less honest than Trump
On coverage of the Maduro kidnapping
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January 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Great piece in the newsletter today by the one and only @seamus-malekafzali.com on media cowardice in the aftermath of the American power grab in Venezuela
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Even as “Trump has dropped almost all pretenses regarding the United States’s real designs, the media seems determined to keep the consent-manufacturing machine running.” Read @seamus-malekafzali.com on media coverage of the Maduro kidnapping:
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When the media is less honest than Trump
On coverage of the Maduro kidnapping
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January 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Even as “Trump has dropped almost all pretenses regarding the United States’s real designs, the media seems determined to keep the consent-manufacturing machine running.” Read @seamus-malekafzali.com on media coverage of the Maduro kidnapping:
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Our Issue Sixteen party is one week away! Featuring readings by @andycawley.bsky.social, Daniel Yadin, Elisa Gonzalez, @erikmbaker.bsky.social, @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social, Katie Way, Max Hancock, Mimi Diamond, Pranay Somayajula, @seamus-malekafzali.com, and Yoni Gelernter.
January 7, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Hope to see you in New York next week!
Our Issue Sixteen party is one week away! Featuring readings by @andycawley.bsky.social, Daniel Yadin, Elisa Gonzalez, @erikmbaker.bsky.social, @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social, Katie Way, Max Hancock, Mimi Diamond, Pranay Somayajula, @seamus-malekafzali.com, and Yoni Gelernter.
January 7, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Our Issue Sixteen party is one week away! Featuring readings by @andycawley.bsky.social, Daniel Yadin, Elisa Gonzalez, @erikmbaker.bsky.social, @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social, Katie Way, Max Hancock, Mimi Diamond, Pranay Somayajula, @seamus-malekafzali.com, and Yoni Gelernter.
“Aphrodite’s like sigh what now / Sappho, what’s your crazy heart / want now?”
Read “Domme Song 5” by @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social in Issue Sixteen.
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Read “Domme Song 5” by @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social in Issue Sixteen.
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Domme Song 5
Poetry
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January 6, 2026 at 4:03 PM
“Aphrodite’s like sigh what now / Sappho, what’s your crazy heart / want now?”
Read “Domme Song 5” by @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social in Issue Sixteen.
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Read “Domme Song 5” by @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social in Issue Sixteen.
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In the West Bank, Jasper Nathaniel writes in today’s newsletter, the “Israeli occupation bars Palestinians from maintaining their own heritage sites, then cites the resulting deterioration as justification for taking them.”
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Israel's archaeological apartheid: an update
A new report from Jasper Nathaniel
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December 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In the West Bank, Jasper Nathaniel writes in today’s newsletter, the “Israeli occupation bars Palestinians from maintaining their own heritage sites, then cites the resulting deterioration as justification for taking them.”
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We’re grateful to everyone who spent time with our work this year. Don’t miss our most-read pieces of 2025!
December 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We’re grateful to everyone who spent time with our work this year. Don’t miss our most-read pieces of 2025!
Save the date: join us on January 14 to celebrate Issue Sixteen!
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Save the date: join us on January 14 to celebrate Issue Sixteen!
In today’s newsletter, James Wood charts the course of the political year in thirty insults:
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The Year in Thirty Insults
The following insults loosely chart the course of the political year.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In today’s newsletter, James Wood charts the course of the political year in thirty insults:
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This year, we were proud to publish eleven short stories. In the newsletter today, we reflect on the writers and editors who make our fiction section possible. We hope you’ll read or revisit our 2025 fiction, and consider donating to our magazine.
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The year in Drift fiction
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December 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This year, we were proud to publish eleven short stories. In the newsletter today, we reflect on the writers and editors who make our fiction section possible. We hope you’ll read or revisit our 2025 fiction, and consider donating to our magazine.
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"Digital twins are palliatives — they treat the symptoms, not the causes, of flagging productivity growth."
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Model Employees
The Dawn of Digital Twins
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December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"Digital twins are palliatives — they treat the symptoms, not the causes, of flagging productivity growth."
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“Masochistic and even suicidal fantasy has always accompanied Israeli violence,” Yoni Gelertner writes in his Issue Sixteen essay on the mythology of Masada.
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The Masada Option
Zionism’s Death Drive
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December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Masochistic and even suicidal fantasy has always accompanied Israeli violence,” Yoni Gelertner writes in his Issue Sixteen essay on the mythology of Masada.
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In @thedriftmag.com, an interview with @stschrader1.bsky.social on abolition, copaganda, and the porous line between the military and law enforcement.
“Our Diminished Epoch”
Stuart Schrader, Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism at Johns Hopkins University, is a leading scholar ...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In @thedriftmag.com, an interview with @stschrader1.bsky.social on abolition, copaganda, and the porous line between the military and law enforcement.
“I find it ridiculous and inimical to democracy that police have veto power over elected officials’ decisions, and that politicians therefore need to walk on eggshells so as not to offend them.” Read our interview with @stschrader1.bsky.social in Issue Sixteen.
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“Our Diminished Epoch”
Stuart Schrader, Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism at Johns Hopkins University, is a leading scholar ...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“I find it ridiculous and inimical to democracy that police have veto power over elected officials’ decisions, and that politicians therefore need to walk on eggshells so as not to offend them.” Read our interview with @stschrader1.bsky.social in Issue Sixteen.
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The first industrial revolution gave capitalists steam power and mechanization, the second electricity and the assembly line, and the third computers.
"The fourth, apparently, will let middle management play The Sims." Go read Max's brilliant @thedriftmag.com piece on digital twins!
"The fourth, apparently, will let middle management play The Sims." Go read Max's brilliant @thedriftmag.com piece on digital twins!
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The first industrial revolution gave capitalists steam power and mechanization, the second electricity and the assembly line, and the third computers.
"The fourth, apparently, will let middle management play The Sims." Go read Max's brilliant @thedriftmag.com piece on digital twins!
"The fourth, apparently, will let middle management play The Sims." Go read Max's brilliant @thedriftmag.com piece on digital twins!
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Issue 16
Consider the horror. The theater of diplomacy and the drama of deal-making. An event like birth or bike riding. A minor skirmish in the class war.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Issue Sixteen is here! 🧵
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Issue Sixteen is here! 🧵
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Volumeheads: A new Q&A with the one and only Solvej Balle in our newsletter today newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/autumn-cam...
"Autumn came with the idea, somehow"
A Q&A with Solvej Balle, author of On the Calculation of Volume
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December 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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New today: a Q&A with Solvej Balle, author of “On the Calculation of Volume”
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"Autumn came with the idea, somehow"
A Q&A with Solvej Balle, author of On the Calculation of Volume
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December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New today: a Q&A with Solvej Balle, author of “On the Calculation of Volume”
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Both novels we excerpted in Issue Fifteen made the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2025 list. Congrats to Stephanie Wambugu and Solvej Balle!
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Both novels we excerpted in Issue Fifteen made the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2025 list. Congrats to Stephanie Wambugu and Solvej Balle!
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“All toys ‘are essentially a microcosm of the adult world.’” Read associate editor Tarpley Hitt on her new book, “Barbieland: The Unauthorized History,” and grab a ticket to our launch event at McNally Jackson Seaport on December 3.
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Barbies at the Gate
A new book by The Drift's Mentions czar
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November 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“All toys ‘are essentially a microcosm of the adult world.’” Read associate editor Tarpley Hitt on her new book, “Barbieland: The Unauthorized History,” and grab a ticket to our launch event at McNally Jackson Seaport on December 3.
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