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Government & state capacity
All topicsBill Gates's Blunt Warning on A.I.September 29, 2026
Jensen Huang vs. the A.I. DoomersSeptember 23, 2026
The ‘But China!’ Dilemma Driving the A.I. RaceSeptember 15, 2026
Francis Fukuyama on Trump, China and the Legacy of 9/11September 11, 2026
Francis Fukuyama on Trump, China and the Legacy of 9/11September 11, 2026
What ‘Hyperpolitics’ Explains About This EraSeptember 8, 2026
This Is Why People Hate the GovernmentAugust 25, 2026
This Is Why People Hate the GovernmentAugust 25, 2026
The A.I.s Are Already Out of ControlAugust 18, 2026
The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for ThisAugust 4, 2026
What is the Democratic Party? What Could It Be?July 28, 2026
What Xi Jinping WantsJuly 14, 2026
What Worries Me Most About 'Abundance'April 28, 2026
What Worries Me Most About 'Abundance'April 28, 2026
Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores?April 21, 2026
Our Tax System Should Make You FuriousApril 17, 2026
I Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This WarMarch 10, 2026
Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy AnthropicMarch 6, 2026
Has Trump Achieved a Lot Less Than It Seems?January 16, 2026
How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?October 15, 2025
What the Shutdown Is Really AboutOctober 8, 2025
What the Shutdown Is Really AboutOctober 8, 2025
Trump Is Building the Blue ScareSeptember 24, 2025
The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump’s Power GrabSeptember 2, 2025
Is Decarbonization Dead?July 25, 2025
Is Decarbonization Dead?July 25, 2025
Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘And’May 30, 2025
Abundance and the LeftApril 29, 2025
What Is DOGE’s Real Goal?March 25, 2025
The Government Knows AGI is ComingMarch 4, 2025
The Government Knows AGI is ComingMarch 4, 2025
A Theory of Media That Explains 15 Years of PoliticsFebruary 25, 2025
What if Trump Just Ignores the Courts?February 11, 2025
The Breaking of the Constitutional OrderFebruary 5, 2025
Let’s Get to the Marrow of What Trump Just DidJanuary 25, 2025
Let’s Get to the Marrow of What Trump Just DidJanuary 25, 2025
Yes, Biden's Green Future Can Still Happen Under TrumpDecember 20, 2024
It's the Corruption, StupidDecember 3, 2024
In This House, We're Angry When Government FailsNovember 22, 2024
In This House, We're Angry When Government FailsNovember 22, 2024
'We Have Created the Scarcity on Purpose'August 6, 2024
'We Have Created the Scarcity on Purpose'August 6, 2024
A $1.7 Million Toilet and Liberalism's Failure to BuildApril 16, 2024
A $1.7 Million Toilet and Liberalism's Failure to BuildApril 16, 2024
What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.?April 12, 2024
The Deep Conflict Between Our Work and Parenting IdealsMarch 22, 2024
Birthrates Are Plummeting Worldwide. Why?March 19, 2024
What a Second Biden Term Would Look LikeMarch 12, 2024
Building the Palestinian State With Salam FayyadFebruary 9, 2024
If Not This, Then What Should Israel Do?October 31, 2023
Two Attorneys Rank the Severity of Trump’s IndictmentsSeptember 26, 2023
What the Heck Is Going on With These U.F.O. Stories?June 20, 2023
The Book I Wish Every Policymaker Would ReadJune 6, 2023
The Book I Wish Every Policymaker Would ReadJune 6, 2023
A Libertarian and I Debate the Debt CeilingMay 16, 2023
Matthew Desmond on America’s Addiction to PovertyApril 21, 2023
What Biden’s Top A.I. Thinker Concluded We Should DoApril 11, 2023
A Radical Way of Thinking About MoneyMarch 24, 2023
Why Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed — And What Comes NextMarch 16, 2023
How Liberals — Yes, Liberals — Are Hobbling GovernmentFebruary 7, 2023
How Liberals — Yes, Liberals — Are Hobbling GovernmentFebruary 7, 2023
There’s Been a Revolution in How China Is GovernedJanuary 24, 2023
How Right-Wing Media Ate the Republican PartyJanuary 20, 2023
There's Been a Massive Change in Where American Policy Gets MadeDecember 6, 2022
There's Been a Massive Change in Where American Policy Gets MadeDecember 6, 2022
Bill McKibben on the Power That Could Save the PlanetNovember 15, 2022
We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity ProsperSeptember 27, 2022
The Single Best Guide to Decarbonization I've HeardSeptember 20, 2022
Now All Biden Has to Do Is Build ItSeptember 16, 2022
Is Climate Change a Reason to Avoid Having Children? and Other Listener Questions AnsweredJune 14, 2022
I Keep Hoping Larry Summers Is Wrong. What if He's Not?March 29, 2022
The Pandemic Lessons We Clearly Haven't LearnedJanuary 18, 2022
Covid Showed Us What Keynes Always KnewSeptember 17, 2021
This Isn’t Your Grandpa’s Joe BidenSeptember 3, 2021
How Blue Cities Became So Outrageously AffordableJuly 23, 2021
Michael Lewis Is Asking the Right QuestionMay 11, 2021
How Chuck Schumer Plans to Win Over Trump VotersApril 30, 2021
Andrew Cuomo and the Performance of PowerMarch 19, 2021
How America’s Covid-19 Nightmare EndsMarch 12, 2021
What Does Toxic Stress Do to Children?March 9, 2021
A Radical Proposal for True DemocracyFebruary 23, 2021
The Senate Is Making a Mockery of ItselfFebruary 12, 2021