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Welcome back to The Long Version, a newsletter by Jonathan Myerson Katz. Sign up for more! One of the biggest problems in any election is recency bias.…
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Oct 23
Welcome back to The Long Version, a newsletter by Jonathan Myerson Katz. To get in your inbox, sign up here: Last night in Utah, as Vice President Mike…
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Oct 8
I was headed into Louisville to visit my parents when word came down that none of the police officers who shot at Breonna Taylor in her home—Myles Cosg…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Sep 27
Nineteen Septembers ago, a new bureau was dreamed up in the White House. The Office of Homeland Security debuted Oct. 8, 2001, promising to “develop an…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Sep 18
Happy September. The election is beginning. The first absentee ballots are about to be mailed. In many states, early in-person voting starts Sept. 18. …
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Sep 2
I’m going to vote for Joe Biden for pretty much the same reason Bernie Sanders is: because the only other option is allowing an incompetent kleptocrati…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Aug 19
Welcome back to The Long Version, a newsletter by Jonathan Myerson Katz. Sign up to get it in your inbox below: Louis XV was an inept leader, the inher…
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Aug 7
Welcome back to The Long Version, a newsletter that puts the news in historical perspective by Jonathan Myerson Katz. Sign up to get it in your inbox h…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Jul 24
As of early June, there had only been a few COVID-19 cases in the immigration detention center in Farmville. ICE made sure to fix that.
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Jul 17
This has been a banner summer for free speech in America. Facing a pandemic, soaring heat, and unhinged levels of police and allied white-supremacist r…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Jul 10
March 3 feels like a lifetime ago. (For some of us, it was.) Italy was days away from its first regional lockdown. Trump was still praising China’s “tr…
Jonathan Myerson Katz
Jul 1
Apologies for not putting out a Long Version last week. My wife, Claire Payton, and I were busy with the launch of our best joint collaboration yet: Na…
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Jun 24 4
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