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Saturday, October 31, 2026

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articleWall Street Journal

How Iran Battered U.S. Bases and Caused Billions in Damage

Satellite imagery of more than two dozen installations gives the first real tally of what Iran's missiles actually did. Billions in damage the Pentagon never itemized out loud.

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articleBIG by Matt Stoller

Anthropic Isn't Just a Company, It's a Payoff

Google and Amazon stand to get rich from a company that supposedly competes with them. Stoller's read: Anthropic is less a startup than a settlement among incumbents wearing one coat.

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podcastDwarkesh Podcast

Robert Caro – The master biographer reflects at 91

Four decades and counting on one life of Lyndon Johnson, and at 91 he's still at the notebooks. Caro on power, patience, and the pages he throws away.

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articleThe New Yorker

Surviving “The Graduate”

He was pushing thirty, convinced he'd been miscast, and miserable by the Chateau Marmont pool. The making of a landmark film, told from inside the panic rather than the legend.

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articleBBC

The Indian chef who brought curry to America - then vanished

A chef who literally invented Indian food in America in 1901 later reinvented himself as a fake prince—BBC traces how one man's culinary legacy got completely overshadowed by his own con.

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