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Sunday, March 1, 2026

Conor Friedersdorf
Mar 01, 2026
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This Week’s Selections

How America Leads the World in Trains (link)

The Plot to Replace Teachers With Tech (link)

Why Europe Doesn’t Have a Tesla (link)

The rise and fall of Iran’s ruthless and pragmatic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (link)

Twice Bombed, Still Nuclear: The Limits of Force Against Iran’s Atomic Program (link)

FLASHBACK:

Blind into Baghdad (link)

Other Items of Note

  • Fareed Zakaria: “Bomb and hope is not a strategy” (link)

  • David Frum: “Trump has started what could be a huge and expensive regional war without even a figment of congressional authorization. War empowers presidents. No president in American history has shown himself less trustworthy with power than Donald Trump.” (link)

  • David French: “War and peace cannot be left to one man” (link)

  • How a single unappetizing shrub became dozens of different vegetables

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