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Tag: Politics

All longform pieces tagged with #politics on The Slow Scroll

In Sprawl We Trust
Current Affairs26 Jan 2025 • ~7150 words

How did the US become filled with sprawl? Simplistic debates about "centralized planning" versus "the free market" belie the truth: that a strong coalition of private and public interests helped create the sprawl that dominates our landscape.

A Witness in Assad’s Dungeons
The New Yorker26 Jan 2025 • ~9300 words

Mazen al-Hamada fled Syria to reveal the regime’s crimes. Then, mysteriously, he went back.

The end of neoliberalism?
Aeon26 Jan 2025 • ~5000 words

The case of Mexico shows that, despite a proliferating discourse that it is over, neoliberalism is as relentless as ever.

At the Summit
Harper's Magazine22 Jan 2025 • ~7850 words

Caitlín Doherty writes about the last days of Davos as its relevance is waning.

Speaking in Small Tongues
The Fence23 Jan 2025 • ~3750 words

An oil trader and an Old Etonian with a genius for PR, was Justin Welby the worst Archbishop of Canterbury since Thomas Arundel?

The warlord, the oligarch and the unravelling of Russia’s Amazon.com
The Economist24 Jan 2025 • ~4450 words

Before the Ukraine war, Wildberries was a giant of e-commerce. Now it’s caught up in a medieval blood feud