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Valued Users of America: “We are adding a lot of features no one asked for that will make your experience worse and also cost a lot of money!” @petridishes writes on the end of America’s free-trial period. “Want rule of law? That’s premium.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/america-free-trial-services/684072/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYXCX3XUIv1Mj7go6x57dOec&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

America’s meritocracy is broken, @nytdavidbrooks writes. Here’s how to fix it:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYR1A7U-3WJkW8ceHjJ0vXD0&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Anne Applebaum on the Trump revolution

https://youtu.be/AyUgoHZC7_M?si=_f4byz_Nk6QOOhNg

122,408 views Aug 27, 2025

Pulitzer-winning historian Anne Applebaum is releasing a paperback edition of her book Autocracy Inc., on the autocrats who are eroding democratic freedoms around the world. Her timing is impeccable: she says Donald Trump is moving the United States closer to autocracy. In this week’s episode she discusses all the ways Trump is undermining democratic norms, and explains why his attempts to stop the Ukraine war are coming up short.