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Teams

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https://www.fastcompany.com/90525132/i-spent-a-year-leading-a-team-in-complete-isolation-in-antarctica-here-are-4-strategies-you-need-right-now

Communication

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As the city grapples with new restrictions on online speech, American tech giants are on the front line of a clash between China and the United States over the internet’s future.

“Is this someone who reads? Someone who likes a story? Operates on visuals?” Sanner said. “You figure out before you go in what that person needs from you.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/06/trump-intelligence-briefer-breaks-silence-349936

Politics

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Detention camps are an abomination,” van Spronsen wrote. “I’m not standing by.”

Whether that’s a legitimate cause, van Spronsen’s words suggest a premeditated attack in service of a political goal — to federal authorities, that makes him a domestic terrorist. And a particularly rare one.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/893533916/i-am-antifa-one-activist-s-violent-death-became-a-symbol-for-the-right-and-left

Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism

https://www.paragkhanna.com/home/2016/10/18/technocracy-in-america

Russia

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/30/russians-us-troops-syria-uproar-trump-345584

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/arts/virus-winds-of-change-podcast

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-taliban-bounty

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-aircraft-intercepted-near-alaska-for-sixth-time-this-month-2020-6

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-bounties-to-taliban-linked-militants-resulted-in-deaths-of-us-troops-according-to-intelligence-assessments/2020/06/28/74ffaec2-b96a-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/politics/russian-bounties-warnings-trump

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-26-2020

Russia – Bounties – US Forces

Biotech

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CRISPR enables scientists to make changes in DNA much more easily than before.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/23/877543610/a-year-in-1st-patient-to-get-gene-editing-for-sickle-cell-disease-is-thriving

Genome editing with CRISPR–Cas nucleases, base editors, transposases and prime editors

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0561-9

Social Physics

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How Revolutions Fail

https://medium.com/better-marketing/screw-your-opinions-give-us-your-analysis-672d92715405

Paul Graham – Four Quadrants

http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html

Greg Satell – Support

Why Innovation Takes More Than Genius

Franklin Templeton – Distorting Language

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/commentaries/2020/07/29/they-blinded-us-from-science

Topol – Church Spread Tweet

https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1292189076431331328-44

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-05-13/only-saving-lives-will-save-livelihoods

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/10/889037310/anatomy-of-a-covid-19-conspiracy-theory

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/nyregion/nyc-barber-shops-coronavirus

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/technology/antifa-local-disinformation

North Korea

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-north-korean-defectors-tale-shows-rotting-military-11593867607

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/06/15/north-koreas-military-threatens-to-reenter-areas-demilitarized-under-inter-korean-agreements/

US Politics

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/28/gohmert-suit-pence-overturn-trumps-defeat-451485

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-overturn/2020/11/28/34f45226-2f47-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/23/us/joe-biden-trump/republicans-caught-between-trumps-wrath-and-reality-have-splintered-into-two-groups

Trump tries to drum out GOP election officials who won’t play his games

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/21/trump-gop-elections-challenge-438938

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/21/culture-wars-latinos-trump-438932

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-uses-power-of-presidency-to-try-to-overturn-the-election-and-stay-in-office/2020/11/19/bc89caa6-2a9f-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/19/trump-election-results-legal-team-438470

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brad-raffensperger-georgia-vote/2020/11/16/6b6cb2f4-283e-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html

https://thebulwark.com/be-alarmed/—44

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/14/giuliani-trump-legal-plans-436475

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/12/shrinking-workforce-can-hurt-biden-436164

https://www.vox.com/2020/11/11/21559082/trump-dispute-election-fraud-electors

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/11/10/most-republicans-dont-yet-dare-to-cross-donald-trump

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/anthony-tata-pentagon-policy-trump-obama-terrorist-b1720677.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-election-press-conference-four-seasons-total-landscaping-philadelphia-pennsylvania-watch-live-stream-today-2020-11-07/

“Networks don’t get to decide elections, courts do,”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/elections/after-trump-accuses-doctors-of-profiteering-medical-professionals-push-back-44

Fearing a ‘Blood Bath,’ Republican Senators Begin to Edge

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/us/politics/republican-senators-trump

https://www.nytimes.com/article/electoral-college-explained

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/10/03/priestly-guidance-on-voting-is-dividing-the-catholic-church-in-america

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/politics/trump-succession-constitution

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/30/us/presidential-debate/its-the-kind-of-language-you-might-expect-from-a-dictator-trumps-remarks-on-election-integrity-and-poll-watching-alarm-experts

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-mark-meadows-on-face-the-nation-september-27-2020/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/opinion/sunday/trump-politics-humor

https://medium.com/@ericjscholl/trump-reveals-his-nightmare-post-election-strategy-70262fb58317

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/ellen-knight-bolton-book-letter/c98f11bb205df88a/full.pdf

https://www.axios.com/bloomberg-group-trump-election-night-scenarios-a554e8f5-9702-437e-ae75-d2be478d42bb.html

https://medium.com/@ericjscholl/trumps-supporters-are-doing-something-they-haven-t-done-much-before-7078eaa7e558

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuomo-covid-new-york-coronavirus-de-blasio-shutdown-timing-11599836994

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/exclusive-trump-officials-interfered-with-cdc-reports-on-covid-19-412809

In Woodward’s ‘Rage,’ Trump Consistently Makes Efforts To Bend Reality, Sell His Narrative

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/09/911138032/woodward-book-says-trump-chose-to-downplay-deadliness-of-virus-to-avoid-panic

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/politics/homeland-security-russia-trump

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-08/trump-channels-noam-chomsky-on-u-s-aggression

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/08/trump-military-defense-industry-booster-410396

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/white-house-has-talked-va-secretary-about-taking-pentagon-job-n1239007

https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2020/09/08/trump-says-pentagon-leaders-are-under-defense-industrys-influence/

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/08/us/trump-vs-biden/trump-whose-administration-proposed-opening-offshore-waters-to-drilling-now-claims-credit-for-issuing-a-moratorium

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/louis-dejoy-campaign-contributions/2020/09/06/1187bc2c-e3fe-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-trap-the-democrats-walked-right

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/04/presidents-are-expected-set-national-tone-what-we-got-with-trump-has-been-catastrophic/

According to a recent poll, 62% of Americans don’t feel comfortable speaking freely about politics. Is there really a free speech crisis in the U.S.?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/land-of-free-and-fettered-speech-11599231635

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/opinion/ed-markey-young-progressive-voters

https://the.ink/p/noam-chomsky-wants-you-to-vote-for

https://the.ink/p/we-are-in-a-cold-civil-war

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/protests-violence/2020/08/27/3f232e66-e578-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/04/white-house-racial-sensitivity-training/

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/trumps-weaponization-usps-and-census/615235/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-presented-the-mother-of-all-fabrications-on-the-white-house-lawn/2020/08/28/a08c2fb8-e8d9-11ea-97e0-94d2e46e759b_story.html

https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/congress/2020/08/31/postal-chief-dejoy-has-long-leveraged-connections-dollars/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tennessee-adopts-new-law-that-could-strip-some-protesters-of-voting-rights/2020/08/22/293d7d28-e4aa-11ea-8dd2-d07812bf00f7_story.html

“There is simply no way to put Trumpism back into the bottle,” writes Gerald F. Seib. So the question for Republicans “is simple and stark: How to adapt their gospel so that it fits in the age of Trump?”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-trump-has-changed-the-republicans-11598023026

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/21/convention-shows-democrats-have-ceded-working-class-gop/

Biden VP Search Story

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/us/politics/biden-harris

Exclusive: After Quitting Last Year, Senior U.S. Intelligence Official Now Talks

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/902345240/exclusive-after-quitting-last-year-senior-u-s-intelligence-official-now-talks

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/08/12/us/biden-vs-trump/kanye-west-who-is-pursuing-a-spot-on-the-2020-ballot-met-with-jared-kushner

https://warontherocks.com/2020/08/who-will-guard-the-guardians-44

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/magazine/us-russia-intelligence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/01/alexander-vindman-retiring-oped/

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/national-guard-white-house-virus-390968

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/elizabeth-warren-mark-esper-pentagon-nominee-391026

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/08/02/controversial-nominee-tata-appointed-to-top-defense-job-bypassing-congress/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/nyregion/donald-trump-taxes-cyrus-vance

https://popular.info/p/trump-goes-postal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-trump-campaign-came-to-court-qanon-the-online-conspiracy-movement-identified-by-the-fbi-as-a-violent-threat/2020/08/01/dd0ea9b4-d1d4-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/14/postal-service-trump-dejoy-delay-mail/

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-chaotic-design-of-trumps-mail-in-voting-rants

https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/congress/2020/07/30/senator-union-leader-postal-service-considers-downsizing/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/trump-delay-election-coronavirus

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/pentagon-protesters-journalists-adversaries-386854

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/30/pentagon-strips-out-language-protesters-adversaries-388751

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/07/02/cracks-in-the-republican-party-establishment-are-getting-bigger/

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/07/21/house-cheney-gop-conference-375812

-medium.com/dfrlab/disinformation-about-antifa-provides-fodder-for-foreign-propagandists-61dfa6232c02-44\

In a letter released Thursday, Wolf, the acting DHS secretary, said, “Portland has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob while local political leaders refuse to restore order to protect their city.”

“A federal courthouse is a symbol of justice,” Wolf wrote, denigrating protests against racism in the U.S. criminal justice system as an angry mob. “To attack it is to attack America.”

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland-44

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-conference-071420/

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/07/09/esper-announces-leak-investigation-at-pentagon/

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/07/does-pentagon-understand-what-navy/166693/

https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/congress/2020/07/07/trump-officials-under-congressional-scrutiny-over-misleading-opm-testimony/

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-to-confront-a-racist-national-history

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opinion/trump-politics-psychology

Academic studies show that Republicans were far less willing to adopt safety procedures and were far more skeptical of scientific warnings than their Democratic counterparts

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/politics/trump-schools-coronavirus

President Trump spearheaded an administration-wide push to pry open the nation’s elementary and secondary schools, the next phase of his effort to get the economy on its feet.

https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/arts/harpers-letter

According to Harvard and MIT, the policy would effectively strand hundreds of thousands of international students studying in the U.S. and muddy plans for a return to class amid the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/08/888871130/harvard-mit-sue-immigration-officials-over-rule-blocking-some-international-stud

Lt. Col. Vindman, Witness In Trump Impeachment, Is Retiring From Military

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/888933684/lt-col-vindman-witness-in-trump-impeachment-is-retiring-from-military

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/politics/electoral-college-supreme-court

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/magazine/isabel-wilkerson-caste

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/us/politics/biden-trump-fundraising-2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/us/politics/trump-2020-campaign-problems

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/recruiting/2020/07/01/mother-of-marine-killed-in-afghanistan-demands-answers-amid-russian-bounty-allegations/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/why-the-mueller-investigation-failed

https://variety.com/2020/politics/features/nancy-pelosi-trump-election-2020-democrats-hollywood-1203521090/

https://www.airforcetimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/06/27/i-am-confused-scared-and-afraid/

https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/06/28/officials-continue-to-throw-capt-brett-cozier-under-the-bus-for-outbreak-on-navy-carrier/

https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/06/28/commentary-asking-yourself-the-question/

https://www.navytimes.com/naval/2020/06/26/us-navys-chief-learning-officer-announces-departure-as-pentagon-exodus-continues/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/politics/michael-flynn-sidney-powell

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/workers-removed-thousands-of-social-distancing-stickers-before-trumps-tulsa-rally-according-to-video-and-a-person-familiar-with-the-set-up/2020/06/27/f429c3be-b801-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html

https://medium.com/discourse/why-we-need-house-speaker-shelia-jackson-lee-af12443bc7b1

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/politics/esper-trump-defense-military

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/white-house-intensifies-effort-to-install-pentagon-personnel-seen-as-loyal-to-trump/2020/06/25/1bfeee3a-9f86-11ea-9d96-c3f7c755fd6e_story.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/17/opm-chief-resigns-134541

https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-federal-intervention-5g-huawei-china-nokia-trump-cisco-11593099054

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/06/23/griffin-porter-resign-from-top-dod-tech-jobs/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/us/politics/arizona-2020-election-democrats-republicans

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/what-fiona-hill-learned-in-the-white-house

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/we-dont-see-color-trump-rallygoers-explain-black-lives-matter-protests-to-their-children/2020/06/21/79ee890c-b40c-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/18/us-military-politics-trump-election-campaign/

Attorney General’s controversial firing of the Manhattan U.S. Attorney was the latest action to concern his allies

https://www.wsj.com/articles/attorney-general-barr-known-by-aides-as-the-buffalo-scrutinized-over-firing-of-u-s-attorney-11592749511

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/politics/evangelical-church-trump-alabama

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881096897/as-the-culture-wars-shift-president-trump-struggles-to-adapt

Culture wars have been part of American politics for decades. Hot-button issues like immigration, family values and respect for the American flag can get a more powerful reaction from voters than dry debates over taxes or Medicare.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/18/us-military-politics-trump-election-campaign/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/bolton-book-exposes-rare-fissures-between-trump-and-pompeo/2020/06/18/9e218bd4-b0e8-11ea-a567-6172530208bd_story.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/18/pentagon-official-resigns-white-house-nixes-nomination-328552

Experts worry that the loyalty purge will cost the Pentagon talent and institutional memory, and further stretch the officials who remain as the department struggles to fill more than a dozen senior positions.

“This kind of churn is generally bad because the wider the cracks are, the more things fall through the cracks,” said Lindsay Cohn, an associate professor at the Naval War College, who was speaking in a personal capacity.

Mr. Trump is making it very clear that he has no room for even mild dissent, and that he has no desire to include anyone but true loyalists in his government.”

It also may have a chilling effect on qualified people who are considering jobs in the Pentagon.

“I’ve never seen something quite like this before,” said one former senior DoD official who served in the Obama administration. “There are good qualified experienced people who are no longer interested in the opportunity to serve because they don’t want to expose themselves to a situation like this. It does put a real chill on the environment for people.”

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/06/18/kathryn-wheelbarger-top-foreign-policy-defense-official-resigns/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/impeachment-casts-shadow-over-army-officers-promotion/2020/06/17/f6fc7c82-b0ac-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/politics/bolton-book-trump-impeached

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/06/16/elaine-mccusker-pentagon-comptroller-resigns/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/12/crises-multiply-trumps-senate-allies-respond-her-emails/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-white-house-vs-john-bolton-11591813953

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-georgia-primary-and-the-state-of-voting-rights

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/can-the-constitution-reach-donald-trumps-corruption-emoluments

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/trump-fox-news-pentagon-policy-chief-312172

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/john-gleeson-michael-flynn

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/us/politics/john-gleeson-michael-flynn