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- How Zambia Approved an HIV Drug in 12 Days
- The Destruction of the Scottish Canon
- After Work, We’ll Have Each Other
- What To Expect When You’re Expecting (A World of Multi-Agent Systems)
- Why We Like Things
- How Diplomats See the World
- Beware the Permanent Periphery
- All Work and No Play
- Rust and Boll
- Saving Academics from Themselves
- The Unacknowledgeable Work of Pastors’ Wives
- In Praise of Observational Evidence
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Where it sits in Ideas & Longform
- #25 Mada Masr73
- #26 Sinocism73
- #27 Asterisk72.5
- #28 Harper's Magazine72.5
- #29 Palladium Magazine72.5
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