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Slow Boring
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Halina Bennet
Just another photo from Washington. Read more
Read 5 hours ago·Jun 13, 2026
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Construction Physics
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Brian Potter
Homes being built on top of libraries, Patriot missile manufacturing, an effort to construct new US coal plants, a tunnel between the US and Russia, and more.
Read 10 hours ago·Jun 13, 2026
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Stratechery
2026.24: Hey Siri, Tell Me a Fable
Ben Thompson
The best Stratechery content from the week of June 8, 2026, including Apple finally shipping Intelligence, Anthropic's fable, and the future of European industry.
Read yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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Hudson Institute Research
Trump Cancels Strikes on Iran
acabral-sanchez@hudson.org
Trump Cancels Strikes on Iran acabral-sanche… Fri, 06/12/2026 - 12:13 SVG Commentary Jun 11, 2026 Fox Business Trump Cancels Strikes on Iran Rebeccah L. Heinrichs Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative Rebeccah L. Heinrichs Commentary Caption (Screenshot via Fox…
Read yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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Hudson Institute Research
Trump’s Iran Deal
acabral-sanchez@hudson.org
Trump’s Iran Deal acabral-sanche… Fri, 06/12/2026 - 12:11 SVG In the Media Jun 12, 2026 Fox News Trump’s Iran Deal Rebeccah L. Heinrichs Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative Rebeccah L. Heinrichs In the Media Caption (Screenshot via Fox News) Toggle Table of C…
Read yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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Hudson Institute Research
Prospects for US-Iran Deal
acabral-sanchez@hudson.org
Prospects for US-Iran Deal acabral-sanche… Fri, 06/12/2026 - 12:04 SVG In the Media Jun 12, 2026 PBS NewsHour Prospects for US-Iran Deal Joel Rayburn Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Joel Rayburn In the Media Caption (Screenshot via PBS NewsHour) T…
Read yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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Hudson Institute Research
American Presence in Eastern Europe Remains Irreplaceable
acabral-sanchez@hudson.org
American Presence in Eastern Europe Remains Irreplaceable acabral-sanche… Fri, 06/12/2026 - 11:52 SVG Commentary Jun 12, 2026 Washington Examiner American Presence in Eastern Europe Remains Irreplaceable Daniel Kochis Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia Daniel Kochis Com…
Read yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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Hudson Institute Research
NATO Can No Longer Treat the Arctic as a Peripheral Concern
acabral-sanchez@hudson.org
NATO Can No Longer Treat the Arctic as a Peripheral Concern acabral-sanche… Fri, 06/12/2026 - 11:46 SVG Commentary Jun 12, 2026 Arab News NATO Can No Longer Treat the Arctic as a Peripheral Concern Luke Coffey Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia Luke Coffey Commentary Ca…
Read yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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Not Boring
Weekly Dose of Optimism #197
Packy McCormick
La Sagrada Família, Life Bio Trial, Saronic, Doudna CRISPR, Standard Bots + Science Breakthroughs + Extra Doses
Read yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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Slow Boring
Hard work is good
Matthew Yglesias
Plus an Ike-less America, the case for Alex Bores, and basketball globalization
Read yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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The Daily Upside
The Social Security Trustees Report Looks Gloomy. Don’t Let Clients Panic
John Manganaro
There’s plenty to be concerned about in the 2026 report, but advocates believe reforms are coming. The post The Social Security Trustees Report Looks Gloomy. Don’t Let Clients Panic appeared first on The Daily Upside .
Read 2 days ago·Jun 12, 2026
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The Daily Upside
When Mom and Dad Retire, and Kids Still Need Financial Help
Griffin Kelly
Advisors must balance helping parents protect assets without making them feel they’re abandoning their children. The post When Mom and Dad Retire, and Kids Still Need Financial Help appeared first on The Daily Upside .
Read 2 days ago·Jun 12, 2026
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The Daily Upside
The White House, Again, Says the Iran War Will Soon End as the US Stakes a Bigger Claim in Global Energy Exports
Sean Craig
Experts, officials, and executives have warned that, even if the US and Iran patch things up, oil markets will take until 2027 to normalize. The post The White House, Again, Says the Iran War Will Soon End as the US Stakes a Bigger Claim in Global Energy Exports appeared first o…
Read 2 days ago·Jun 12, 2026
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The Daily Upside
Can KKR Outmaneuver One of the Biggest AI Infrastructure Bottlenecks?
Brian Boyle
The big money firm is teaming up with Nvidia, Kuwait's sovereign wealth fund, and Texas energy producer Vistra to build data centers. The post Can KKR Outmaneuver One of the Biggest AI Infrastructure Bottlenecks? appeared first on The Daily Upside .
Read 2 days ago·Jun 12, 2026
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The Daily Upside
SpaceX Draws Hordes of Investors, Some Unlikely or Unknowing
Jamie Wilde
SpaceX is expected to set aside 20% of its shares for retail buyers who’ve placed bids for more than $100 billion worth of shares. The post SpaceX Draws Hordes of Investors, Some Unlikely or Unknowing appeared first on The Daily Upside .
Read 2 days ago·Jun 12, 2026
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The Daily Upside
LPL Lawsuit Raises Questions About Annuity Monitoring
John Manganaro
However the lawsuit shakes out, many retirement experts think advisors should be monitoring policies they’ve sold in the past. The post LPL Lawsuit Raises Questions About Annuity Monitoring appeared first on The Daily Upside .
Read 2 days ago·Jun 12, 2026
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Slow Boring
Thursday discussion post
Halina Bennet
Your own personal timeline
Read 2 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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Hudson Institute Research
AI and the American Dream: Promoting Innovation, Affordability, and American Dominance
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AI and the American Dream: Promoting Innovation, Affordability, and American Dominance acabral-sanche… Thu, 06/11/2026 - 14:34 SVG Testimony Jun 11, 2026 Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs AI and the American Dream: Promoting Innovation, Affordability, and American…
Read 2 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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Construction Physics
Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition
Brian Potter
A few weeks ago we looked at a simulation of technological evolution by economist Brian Arthur, in which he was able to start with simple building blocks (such as a NAND gate) and evolve surprisingly complex circuits (such as a 12-way AND gate or a 4-bit adder) by randomly combi…
Read 2 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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Slow Boring
Can we retire “public safety”?
Matthew Yglesias
Just talk about crime.
Read 2 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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Stratechery
An Interview with Ben Bajarin About Apple, AI, and Compute
Ben Thompson
An interview with Ben Bajarin about WWDC and the status of the AI compute industry.
Read 2 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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Slow Boring
Matt and Jerusalem read “Silent Spring”
Matthew Yglesias
Can a return to the classic text save environmentalism?
Read 3 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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Noahpinion
Are you finally ready to admit it's the phones?
Noah Smith
We didn't evolve to live our lives as terminals of a digital hive-mind.
Read 3 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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Slow Boring
A market moves, with a crisis unresolved
Halina Bennet
Sales rebound and development continues, yet stalled reforms, shrinking budgets, and flawed affordability targets are leaving the housing shortage largely intact.
Read 3 days ago·Jun 10, 2026
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Not Boring
Return on Tokens (ROT)
Packy McCormick
Markie Wagner Co-Writes A Poetic Essay
Read 3 days ago·Jun 10, 2026
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Stratechery
Fable 5, Anthropic Alignment, AI Tiers
Ben Thompson
Fable 5 is the public version of Mythos, and while it is very capable it sets some troubling new precedents.
Read 3 days ago·Jun 10, 2026
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Noahpinion
Insurers aren't the main villain of the U.S. health care system
Noah Smith
A repost from the Noahpinion archive.
Read 4 days ago·Jun 10, 2026
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Stratechery
The iPhone’s Last Stand
Ben Thompson
Siri isn't state of the art, but as long as it works — and it appears it does — it's good enough for the consumer market.
Read 4 days ago·Jun 9, 2026
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Not Boring
Expanding the Radius of Daily Life
Packy McCormick
How to Make Flying Cars an Everyday Reality
Read 5 days ago·Jun 8, 2026
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Stratechery
Google Buys Compute From SpaceX, Broadcom’s Outlook, Apple’s AI Politics
Ben Thompson
Google's deal with SpaceX, and Broadcom's earnings, both seem bullish for Nvidia. Then, what I'm looking for at WWDC.
Read 5 days ago·Jun 8, 2026
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Doomberg
Party Pooper
Doomberg
The balloons are always the first to go.
Read 6 days ago·Jun 8, 2026
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Noahpinion
Roundup #83: I told you so!
Noah Smith
Piketty gets wacky; Tokenmaxxing fails; Trump, drones, and Ukraine; Tariffs on China, again; India's growth; Borjas again
Read 6 days ago·Jun 8, 2026
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Palladium Magazine
The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence
Duncan Umphrey
Recently, the Vatican and Anthropic have shown a united front on artificial intelligence. But are they actually aligned? The post The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence appeared first on Palladium .
Read last week·Jun 6, 2026
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Stratechery
2026.23: Power Shifts
Ben Thompson
The best Stratechery content from the week of June 1, 2026, including Google and Microsoft, YouTubers taking over Hollywood, and a guide to the NBA Finals.
Read last week·Jun 5, 2026
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Not Boring
Weekly Dose of Optimism #196
Packy McCormick
Antares Goes Critical, NewLimit, BioWeapon Letter, Helion, Alzheimer's x Mushrooms + Extra Doses
Read last week·Jun 5, 2026
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Construction Physics
How Long Does It Take to Plan a Bridge?
Brian Potter
Many folks, including me, have observed that it seems to take much longer to build infrastructure in the US than it used to.
Read last week·Jun 4, 2026
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Live feedAmerican Affairs
Julius Krein
The journal of the post-neoliberal right — industrial policy, finance, and the rebuilding of productive American capacity.
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Live feedAustin Vernon
Austin Vernon
Essays on oil, nuclear, manufacturing, and the engineering economics of rebuilding American heavy industry.
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Live feedConstruction Physics
Brian Potter
The best writing anywhere on why America stopped building and what it would take to build again — construction, factories, and productivity.
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Doomberg
Energy, commodities, and industrial analysis from a chicken in a green visor — required reading for anyone serious about the physical economy.
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Hudson Institute
Policy research on defense, technology competition with China, and the industrial foundations of national power.
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Live feedNoahpinion
Noah Smith
Sharp economic analysis of reindustrialization, the China-US competition, and the policy toolkit for rebuilding America.
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Live feedNot Boring
Packy McCormick
Deep dives on the companies building the next industrial economy — defense tech, energy, semiconductors, and frontier industries.
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Live feedPalladium Magazine
Palladium
Essays on governance futurism, state capacity, and the civilizational stakes of American industrial revival.
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Live feedSlow Boring
Matthew Yglesias
Center-left policy with an abundance lens — housing, energy, manufacturing, and the politics of getting things built.
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Live feedStratechery
Ben Thompson
Strategy analysis across tech and industry — on TSMC, Intel, semiconductors, and the industrial logic of the information age.
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Live feedThe Daily Upside
The Daily Upside
Business news with a preference for the tangible — supply chains, industrials, semiconductors, and capital flows.
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Live feedThe Diff
Byrne Hobart
Finance and strategy essays connecting markets, technology, and the industrial real economy.
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