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Good Authority’s mission is to bring insights from political science to a broader audience. Here, political scientists draw on their expertise and the discipline’s research to provide in-depth analysis, illuminate the news, and inform the political conver

A non-profit R&D lab building the tools for collective intelligence and collective progress.

In business, culture eats strategy. In government, culture eats policy. Here we'll talk about the problems of state capacity (government's ability to achieve its policy goals) and how to fix them. From the author of Recoding America.

finding meaning in life through literature, art, design, and culture ✦✧ through weekly posts and enthusiastic conversations

Finance, Crime, and Global Economic Governance

I write about interesting new developments in AI.

arg min: a blog of minimum value. on the history, foundations, and validity of "optimally" automated decision making.

Researching the Communist Party of China is my day job. Here I write long reads on international politics, ancient history, and American conservatism.

A Substack on the connections between politics and the economy from the author of Why Politics Fails.

A bunch of unedited stuff about international relations, American politics, political economy, the marketplace of ideas, and popular culture written by this Drezner guy

A newsletter from author Steven Johnson exploring where good ideas come from—and how to keep them from turning against us.

Improving the quality of government, public policy, reducing administrative burdens

A newsletter that mixes insights from the history of the digital future (#WIREDarchive) with observations and rants about the state of politics today. Basically a blog for your inbox.

Global inequality and More 3.0

Notes on economics and more

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A not-so-dismal substack about the dismal science

A newsletter, podcast, & community focused on the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization. In your inbox once or twice a week.

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

the junk shop of history

Max Gladstone Writing about Reading and Writing and Hopefully Liberation

literally how can we understand what the internet is doing to us

One of the best ways to learn to make sense of money, work, communication, production, distribution, and more. Betting that in the course of human things the future must resemble even if it does not reflect the past, people being much the same over time.

John Naughton's online diary

Janky, wobbly models of everything from philosophy to technology and everything in-between.

an anthropology of disruption 📍 sf & beyond

Deep coverage of technology, China, and US policy. We feature original analysis alongside interviews with leading thinkers and policymakers.

A newsletter of quiet contrarianism, slow analysis and ambient ideas

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