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It's asymmetric warfare out there.
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People are realizing that the Arsenal of Democracy is gone
Bringing it back isn't impossible, but it will be difficult.
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The U.S. must not ignore Indonesia
We have the opportunity to befriend an Asian country with a huge population, a large and growing economy, and a strategic location.
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Americans are angry about immigration
It's time to face this difficult fact, understand why it's happening, and deal with it.
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At least five things for your Thanksgiving weekend (#20)
The OpenAI coup, "deaths of despair", Japan's stagnation, solar panel waste, and the Inequality Wars
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Feeling strangely optimistic about Egypt
It has many of the building blocks for a successful industrialization story.
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Three years of Noahpinion
What happened to the world in 2023, and what I wrote about it
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Politicized science inevitably tends toward pseudoscience
Researchers shouldn't just make stuff up.
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