Regulation alone won’t fix the social web, @ibogost writes. But limiting how much people can talk on it could.
Author: Jim
****** [The Washington Post] The ‘one-legged stools’ holding up a fragile economy
The U.S. economy is growing, but its reliance on a few industries, including health care and consumer spending, raises concerns about its fragility.
NYTimes: I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/opinion/spain-migrants-europe.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
NYTimes: Where Is A.I. Taking Us? Eight Leading Thinkers Share Their Visions.
Where Is A.I. Taking Us? Eight Leading Thinkers Share Their Visions. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/02/02/opinion/ai-future-leading-thinkers-survey.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFA.oqSP.KJuK2gv10u_S&smid=nytcore-android-share
How Crypto Is Used for Political Corruption
In the new episode of “Autocracy in America,” Molly White talks to Anne Applebaum about how the crypto industry is shaping our politics and facilitating corruption within our government. Listen:
The Levers Trump Isn’t Using
Trump has “worked around the formal powers of the presidency more than through them, and his goal often seems to have been not so much to govern as to show force,” Yuval Levin argues:
The Rise of the Tech Hamiltonians
“The Gilded Age saw an eruption of scandal and corruption that accompanied” and “enabled the transformation of the American economy alongside explosive changes in technology. Donald Trump’s Washington looks like the Gilded Age on steroids,” @wrmead writes:
Michael Sandel: How the Left Paved the Way for Trump | The Agenda
Michael Sandel: How the Left Paved the Way for Trump | The Agenda
How the Bernie Goetz Shootings Explain the Trump Era
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/bernie-goetz-shooting-racial-resentment/685726/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYTuJgl1Gm9nMjgXNc1B9TdY
How the Bernie Goetz Shootings Explain the Trump Era
A notorious event in 1984 divided New Yorkers in ways that feel extremely familiar four decades later.
By Heather Ann Thompson