Newsletter / PoliticsThe Presidency as a Pressure InstrumentWhen tariffs, sanctions and names all become leverageAug 27, 2026
Newsletter / Public HealthThe Lettuce Problem Is the Paper TrailCyclospora is unpleasant; missing traceability is worse.Aug 27, 2026
Newsletter / TechnologyThe Model Knows the Logs, Not the PlotAI’s platform layer is consolidating while its causal reasoning remains conspicuously unscalable.Aug 27, 2026
Newsletter / EconomicsThe Tariff Comes Home by DinnerTrade policy is now an aisle-by-aisle exercise in cost transfer.Aug 26, 2026
Newsletter / Climate ResilienceThe Map Before the FirelineResilience begins with knowing what is already there.Aug 26, 2026
Newsletter / GeopoliticsThe War Comes With a Grocery ReceiptIran pressure is becoming an energy, trade and household-cost strategy.Aug 26, 2026
Newsletter / PoliticsThe Republic’s New Terms of ServiceFederal power asks for compliance; states, cameras, and courts supply the fine print.Aug 26, 2026
Newsletter / Public HealthLettuce, Parasites, and the Limits of Farmstand ReassuranceA Cyclospora outbreak is a supply-chain problem, not a personality test for produce.Aug 26, 2026
Newsletter / TechnologyThe Compute Is Local, the Certainty Is NotAI is getting cheaper to run, harder to verify, and very confident about both.Aug 26, 2026
Newsletter / EconomicsThe Tariff Arrives Before the ReceiptA border tax is easy to announce; its costs take the scenic route.Aug 25, 2026
Newsletter / Climate & ResilienceThe River Has No Comment SectionA climate-risk issue about water, power, agriculture, and the perils of arguing from a dashboardAug 25, 2026
Newsletter / GeopoliticsThe Strait, the Dollar, and the Long WarWashington is trying to make Iran economically uninhabitable without discovering what that does to everyone else.Aug 25, 2026