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Mookie Wilson, Dave Roberts, Lyndon Johnson and Newt Gingrich
How Moneyball Broke Congress
Dec 24
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Shots Fired
Why our Kids Keep Dying. Why we do Nothing.
Dec 17
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Jonathan Lidz
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Charlie Pellerin's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
How a Team of Rocket Scientists got Trapped in and Escaped from The Loop
Dec 10
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Jonathan Lidz
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And Now for Something Completely Different: Sort of
Why the Giants and Jets are Poster Children of Organizational Dysfunction
Dec 3
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November 2025
Breaking the Loop: What the Failed Iran Hostage Rescue Taught Us About Fighting Cartels
Applying Lessons Learned to the War on Drugs
Nov 26
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Jonathan Lidz
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The Warning
How the Loop Came into Being and How it Broke Democracy
Nov 19
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Jonathan Lidz
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The Loop
Failure as System Design
Nov 12
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Jonathan Lidz
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What's Packing the Trains
It's Demand, Stupid
Nov 5
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Jonathan Lidz
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October 2025
Tracks of Despair
Who Built it, Who Profits from it, and Who Dies on it?
Oct 29
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Jonathan Lidz
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Admiral Holsey's Resignation and the Failure of the War on Drugs
Oct 23
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Jonathan Lidz
On Constitutional Duty and Unlawful Orders
Jim Hasset was a ruddy-faced, Ranger-qualified Army lieutenant colonel from upstate New York who served as the Battalion Commander of the Paul Revere…
Oct 19
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Jonathan Lidz
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While Washington Looked Away
A Lament on Forgotten Towns and Fragile Democracy
Oct 18
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Jonathan Lidz
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