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Brad Feld: The Tech Community Needs To Be Humble to Survive With What Will Be a "Challenging" 2023
Beezy Marsh: Remembering a London of 1946 in Which Fearsome Female Gangsters Ran the Show
Leigh Goodmark on the Case for Abolition Feminism: Why We Need to Decriminalize Domestic Violence
Frank Smyth: Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Messenger: Why the Bad 2022 News About Gun Proliferation and Violence in America Will Probably Only Get Worse in 2023
Peter Pomerantsev: Why the "Evil" Russian Invasion of Ukraine Will Only End When the West Arms Ukraine With Missiles That Can Reach Russian Cities
Kevin Boyle: How to Escape the Culture-War Paranoia That Has Infected American Politics Since the Sixties
William Deresiewicz: Why 2022 Was a Good Year For American Liberals Fighting Against the Fundamentalism of Both Left- and Right-Wing Intolerance
Chris Schroeder: How to Read 100 Books in 2023 Without Going to Live in a Library or a Bookstore
Rick Wartzman: How Joe Biden Has Done More For Labor Unions Than Any President Since FDR and What to Hope For in 2023 to Maintain This Progress
Jenny Kleeman on Humanity's Fate in 2022: Have We All Become Frogs Being Slowly Boiled Alive in the Pot of Technological "Progress"?
Soli Özel on the Middle East in 2022: Iran, Israel, Turkey, the Gulf, and the Other Asymmetries of a Multi-Polar Region
Gary Gerstle: How Liz Truss, The Russian Invasion of Ukraine, and Joe Biden's Economic Policies Have All Contributed to the Decline, and Perhaps Even Death, of Neo-Liberalism in 2022