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December 18, 2022

Required Reading for Political Compulsives

1.The ‘Twitter Files’ Is What It Claims to Expose The purported exposé of Twitter’s political bias is itself an attempt to weaponize control of Twitter for political purposes. By Eric Levitz

2.England Is Over Harry and Meghan The couple’s new Netflix documentary is evidence that everyone is ready to move on. By Geoffrey Wheatcroft

3.7 Great Things About Trump’s Incredibly Dumb NFT Announcement NFTs are the least harmful thing Trump could have revealed, and his infomercial-style promo video is a delight. By Margaret Hartmann

4.Helping Trans Kids Means Admitting What We Don’t Know Trying to enforce a nonexistent scientific consensus is a dead end. By Jonathan Chait

5.Brittney Griner’s Hollow Homecoming It’s a relief she’s back. Now free the others. By Zak Cheney-Rice

6.The Republicans’ Problem Isn’t ‘Candidate Quality,’ It’s Crazy People Being sane isn’t a messaging choice. By Jonathan Chait

7.The Indictment of Sam Bankman-Fried Is a Bombshell Federal prosecutors have broken new ground with the shockingly fast arrest of the former king of crypto. By Ankush Khardori

8.Is Elon Musk Setting Himself Up to Lose Tesla? The hidden danger of trying to fund Twitter by selling off the true source of his wealth and power. By Kevin T. Dugan

9.Why Capitalism Needs Sick People The grim reality of the health-care industry has prompted a radical rethinking of how to change it. By Malcolm Harris

10.Elon Musk’s Politics Are About As Complicated As Trump’s Both Musk and Trump sought subsidies from the Democrats, and then adoration from consumers of conservative media. By Eric Levitz

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