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Dear Subscribers, This is another ‘lite’ (and therefore free) edition of the newsletter as I finish off my annual leave. Thanks to Dario Garcia Giner
By Ilya Gridneff, Emily Schultheis, Dmytro Drabyk · Jul 24, 2023 KYIV, Ukraine — When Tanya, a 45-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, paid $10,000
Dear Subscribers, Surprise! I know we said we would be off for two weeks but Dario Garcia Giner has kindly put together a light edition
As long-term readers will know, the Blind Spot operates in collaboration with Politico, where I am senior finance editor four days a week. In that
Dear Subscribers, As usual, this week’s edition of the Blind Spot newsletter has been compiled by Izabella Kaminska and Dario Garcia Giner. But the big
By Mathieu Pollet · Jul 13, 2023 Lawmakers in the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee (LIBE) want to introduce an obligation for EU governments to
To commemorate the birthday of electro wizard Nikola Tesla, here’s an extended preamble into the unlikely and little-known story about the “other” Tesla that became a household name.
Dear Subscribers, Yes, yes. It’s another noon send out, but as ever it’s been a busy week and I’ve been working on a very special
As long-term readers will know, the Blind Spot operates in collaboration with Politico, where I am senior finance editor four days a week. In that
This is the ninth essay in a series of essays by Tim Ferguson, founder of the Anacyclosis Institute, arguing in favour of rationism, a middle-class-oriented
By Izabella Kaminska, Dan Bloom · Jul 5, 2023 LONDON — Like most banks these days, the Strand offices of Coutts, one of the U.K.’s
Dear Subscribers, Welcome to the weekend, and hopefully — for the first time in a while — a relatively timely (but, no doubt, format-muddled) send-out.