Blake Dodge

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  • Dec 11, 2025
    Tom was always a right-of-center guy. Wealthy, in tech, but never particularly partisan: “I was never a card-carrying anything.” 9/11 changed that. The smoke had hardly...
  • Oct 15, 2025
    There was the time she wrote that 9/11 kicked off the Republican campaign to suppress voters. That Donald Trump, in 2016, won the White House partially by “asserting that white...
  • Sep 1, 2025
    On Sunday, September 26, 2010, Peter Thiel and Luke Nosek, the PayPal cofounder, were on a plane from New York to San Francisco, when they had an idea: paying people to leave...
  • Aug 26, 2025
    In 2016, the Associated Press freed more than 2,000 slaves. The reporters located fishermen held captive on a remote island, in cages, and then traced the supply chain all the...
  • Jul 30, 2025
    If you are a human who has had access to the internet over the last few months, you’ve probably seen stories about ChatGPT turning people crazy. The framing of these articles...
  • Apr 18, 2025
    With the Ivy League under fire — from AI, from Trump, from its own students — it may finally be enough for young people to consider alternative paths. At least,...
  • Apr 14, 2025
    Extinct no more, the Time cover proclaimed. Synthetic biology startup Colossal Biosciences literally brought back the dire wolf — a predator that’s been extinct for...