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The Year in How Things Work • We're a good team, you and me.
The Year in How Things Work
We're a good team, you and me.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The Year in How Things Work • We're a good team, you and me.
Abominations of Capital • Forcing a price on priceless things.
Abominations of Capital
Forcing a price on priceless things.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Abominations of Capital • Forcing a price on priceless things.
If He Builds It, Tear It Down • Pendulums must swing.
If He Builds It, Tear It Down
Pendulums must swing.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If He Builds It, Tear It Down • Pendulums must swing.
Culture Wars Are For Cowards • And most people don't like bullies.
Culture Wars Are For Cowards
And most people don't like bullies.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Culture Wars Are For Cowards • And most people don't like bullies.
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party • We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party
We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party • We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
America Is Becoming Dallas • Part One: The Lord of Plano.
America Is Becoming Dallas
Part One: The Lord of Plano.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
America Is Becoming Dallas • Part One: The Lord of Plano.
The DSA Candidate Who Won Down South • An interview with newly elected Atlanta City Council member Kelsea Bond
The DSA Candidate Who Won Down South
An interview with newly elected Atlanta City Council member Kelsea Bond
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The DSA Candidate Who Won Down South • An interview with newly elected Atlanta City Council member Kelsea Bond
Stocks Aren't Salvation • Political consequences of the ownership society
Stocks Aren't Salvation
Political consequences of the ownership society
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Stocks Aren't Salvation • Political consequences of the ownership society
Do What You Believe In • How to navigate a complex political world.
Do What You Believe In
How to navigate a complex political world.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Do What You Believe In • How to navigate a complex political world.
A Brief Biannual Update on the Publication You Are Reading • How Things Work.
A Brief Biannual Update on the Publication You Are Reading
How Things Work.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A Brief Biannual Update on the Publication You Are Reading • How Things Work.
Local Paper Opines on Mayor's Race • The Wall Street Journal's incredible Zohran obsession.
Local Paper Opines on Mayor's Race
The Wall Street Journal's incredible Zohran obsession.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Local Paper Opines on Mayor's Race • The Wall Street Journal's incredible Zohran obsession.
Eugene Debs and All Of Us • In Terre Haute with the keepers of the flame.
Eugene Debs and All Of Us
In Terre Haute with the keepers of the flame.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Eugene Debs and All Of Us • In Terre Haute with the keepers of the flame.
ICE vs. NYC • The feds will not have a good time here.
ICE vs. NYC
The feds will not have a good time here.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
ICE vs. NYC • The feds will not have a good time here.
The Time That Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Almost Assassinated in St. Augustine, Florida • A little known incident that could have changed history.
The Time That Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Almost Assassinated in St. Augustine, Florida
A little known incident that could have changed history.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The Time That Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Almost Assassinated in St. Augustine, Florida • A little known incident that could have changed history.
Shift Change at the Wheel Reinvention Factory • Even David Brooks is welcome in our movement.
Shift Change at the Wheel Reinvention Factory
Even David Brooks is welcome in our movement.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Shift Change at the Wheel Reinvention Factory • Even David Brooks is welcome in our movement.
Fragility Is Getting Scary • The opposite of risk management.
Fragility Is Getting Scary
The opposite of risk management.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Fragility Is Getting Scary • The opposite of risk management.
Thinking of AI as a Social Problem • No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.
Thinking of AI as a Social Problem
No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Thinking of AI as a Social Problem • No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.
Brad Lander Wants New York City to Resist • The NYC Comptroller talks ICE, Trump, Zohran, and Brooklyn.
Brad Lander Wants New York City to Resist
The NYC Comptroller talks ICE, Trump, Zohran, and Brooklyn.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Brad Lander Wants New York City to Resist • The NYC Comptroller talks ICE, Trump, Zohran, and Brooklyn.
Leave the Military Now • What does courage demand?
Leave the Military Now
What does courage demand?
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Leave the Military Now • What does courage demand?
We Are All Domestic Terrorists Now • Here comes the iron fist.
We Are All Domestic Terrorists Now
Here comes the iron fist.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We Are All Domestic Terrorists Now • Here comes the iron fist.
Anti-Religious Politics • One party needs to stand against god in public policy.
Anti-Religious Politics
One party needs to stand against god in public policy.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Anti-Religious Politics • One party needs to stand against god in public policy.
Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses • The defining experience of fascism.
Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses
The defining experience of fascism.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses • The defining experience of fascism.
New York Socialist City • Where taking care of everyone is common sense.
New York Socialist City
Where taking care of everyone is common sense.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New York Socialist City • Where taking care of everyone is common sense.