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The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World

Zachary Karabell

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This 1856 political cartoon depicts the responses of the three candidates to the results of the election. Winning Democrat James Buchanan sits reading the returns of the election while newspaper editors approach from the left. Behind them the defeated Republican candidate John C. Fremont rides off into the West. To the right the second defeated candidate, Millard Fillmore, laments his fall into the “caverns of Know-Nothingism.”

Here’s What Happens to a Conspiracy-Driven Party

The modern GOP isn't the first party to embrace huge conspiracies. But the lessons should be sobering.

by Zachary Karabell via Politico Magazine on January 30, 2021

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Fannie, Freddie, and the Destructive Dream of the 'Ownership Society'

Unwinding the mortgage giants won't cure Americans of their desire to own a home, whether they can afford it or not.

by Zachary Karabell via The Atlantic on August 10, 2013

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