Politics
- Europe’s Brexit not-so supremo and EU Draft Guidelines Following U.K.’s Brexit Trigger: Text and May promises ‘jaw-jaw’ with Spain to solve Gibraltar differences
- Trump’s Embarrassing Enthusiasm for Sisi and Netanyahu wants Trump to believe he’s curtailing settlements even as he launches a new one and Steve Bannon’s man in the Middle East
- Emmanuel Macron’s eminence grise and French far-left firebrand’s campaign of revenge
- Vučić claims victory in Serbian presidential vote and Kosovo leader’s military maneuvers
- Why We Need Political Islam
- India, Long at Odds With Pakistan, May Be Rethinking Nuclear First Strikes
- North Korea’s leader is a lot of things — but irrational is not one of them
- Hungary: Parliament to rush bill targeting Soros school
- China’s Xinjiang Crackdown Continues
- This Is What It’s Actually Like To Live In A Surveillance State
- The myth of the ‘lone wolf’ terrorist and How Russians Got Used to Terrorism
- Jonathan Haidt on the Cultural Roots of Campus Rage and The Alt-Right Curriculum
Economics & Finance
- Uncovering the Secret History of Wall Street’s Largest Oil Trade and on the same topic: What I Learned from Losing $200 Million
- Home is where the cartel is (old, and probably a repost, but as relevant as ever, it seems) and Brilliant! This Man Got His Own Home At 30…
- Haldane: A Little More Conversation A Little Less Action and a couple of responses: trust me, I’m an economist … and Plain Speaking
- About becoming poor in old age: Falling and A world without retirement
- About ethnic conflicts, inequality, and rainfall in Africa
- Quantifying the impact of smoke pollution on health in the 19th century
- What the textbooks get wrong when they explain GDP
- Chart of the Week: Slowing Productivity: Why It Matters and What To Do and And Which Productivity Puzzle? and How Many Robots Does It Take to Replace a Human Job? and Understanding US productivity trends from the bottom-up
- Who is Growing and Who is Dying in the Fortune 500?
- Varoufakis’ diaries continue: Europe’s Illiberal Establishment
- Disabled or just desperate?
- Fifty Years Of Growth In American Consumption, Income, And Wages
- The End of the Past (about economic stagnation in late antiquity)
- Illiberal Stagnation and The Demise of the Anatolian Tiger
- How to Handle an Oil Shock
- What’s Really Driving the US Trade Deficit With China
- Is it too late for China to reverse the over-concentration of elite education?
- China Plan to Create New Shenzhen Spurs Speculative Rampage
- Turkmenistan: With Money in Short Supply, Cash-Free Seen as Answer and BOE Risks New Outrage With Fix for Animal Fat in Banknotes
- The Law and Economics of Shadow Banking
- Wall Street’s New Favorite Way to Swap Secrets Is Against the Rules
- Women still miss out on management in finance
- Sarah Tighe, Wife of Tom Hayes, Has Some Words For All You Amazon Reviewers
- Trading places: the rise of the DIY hedge fund
- How attractive analysts make better stock calls
- Harry Potter and the Goblin Bank of Gringotts
Science & Tech
- The Quest for Unity Is Not Something Physics Is Cut Out to Do
- What Makes a Good Landing Site on Mars?
- Lost in space: debris shield bag floats away from astronauts during ISS spacewalk
- The Unbearable Weirdness of CRISPR
- This Cancer Treatment Extends Life Without Pills, Radiation, or Surgery
- A Tiny Fish With Terrifying Fangs and Opioid Venom
- Tyrannosaurus rex was a sensitive lover, new dinosaur discovery suggests
- Yves Meyer, Wavelet Expert, Wins Abel Prize and A retiree discovers an elusive math proof – and nobody notices
- Trees Have Their Own Songs
- This Object Has Been Sprayed With The World’s Blackest Material, And It’s Freaking Us Out
- CSI: Walmart
- The Founding Fathers Encrypted Secret Messages, Too
- A beginner’s guide to the debate over 100% renewable energy
Misc
- A Bizarre SS Expedition to Tibet
- The High Price of Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Life
- The Management Myth
- About trying to “unwrite” the Anarchist Cookbook: Burn After Reading
- A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite – The race to stop one of history’s most bizarre extortion plots.
- For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her
- About the future of Venice: La Serenissima no more?
- Disillusioned with fine dining, one of the world’s great chefs took on fast food. It has been harder than he ever imagined. and Spaghetti doughnuts are Instagram’s latest craze
- At a spa in Japan, you can get a back massage from a cat
- LanguageLog: You’re a cow (also, ‘Banksy of punctuation’ puts full stop to bad grammar in Bristol)
- China’s Hukou Restrictions Now Apply to Graveyards
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