Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026)

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Trump and the unmighty dollar: "Flipping the table over in a poker game rigged in your favor because you resent having to pretend to play the game at all."
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Object permanence: H2G2 v BBC; Anti-capitalist bank rave; Narrative and magic; It's still censorship; Boss politics antitrust; Game library; Gamers 6-65; Google Cache; "Probiotics" aren't; "Starve"; Uptown Funk mashup; Not a crime if we do it with an app; Gibson on Stuxnet; Gates sells Tank Man pic to China; Paul Allen's yacht destroys a reef; Mass surveillance in Anaheim.
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Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism": How many $TRUMP coins should your company buy?
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Object permanence: NZ doesn't want US-style copyright; Tron: Reloaded; Mass shootings and gun profits; Descartes God has failed; "The Big Fix."
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MAGA crackup: Not just Epstein (but also Epstein).
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Object permanence: Postapocalyptic Disney World, UK schools' "anti-radicalization" software; Blueleaks, EU kills US data-sharing
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Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity: Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops.
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Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2020, 2024
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Winning coalitions aren't always governing coalitions: You can take power by making promises, but wielding power means breaking them.
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This day in history: 2005, 2020
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Trumpism's healthcare fracture-lines: How public health can win the Battle of the Cranks.
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Expert agencies and elected legislatures: Legislatures are entitled to their own (political) opinions but not their own facts.
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Working class Dems who campaign on economics beat Trumpists in elections: But they rarely beat the Dem establishment in primaries.
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