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August 2026

The Rise and Fall of America’s Exorbitant Privilege
Under American hegemony, the US government could borrow on terms easier than its corporations. Those days are over. Here’s a quick explainer.
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Polycrisis and the food system
Tom Philpott, my old podcast co-host, has a new gig. I join him this week on Unconfined.
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Africa Says No to the Green Revolution
After 20 years, the data points to some clear conclusions about the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
 • Raj Patel
Introducing the idea of ‘Food Circuits’
Seth Holmes and his collaborators introduce an important new term into the lexicon, one that helps explain how food and capital move, while families are…
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How to... make a documentary about a food documentary that HBO doesn't buy
Tunde Wey and Theo Schear's Hard to Swallow is a post-modern masterpiece, in which I found some painful similarities with my own The Ants & The…
 • Raj Patel
Vijay Iyer's Fifteen
A new album from the inimitable jazz-philosopher
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How to Be Curious about... US Malnutrition Mortality
A graph doing the rounds shows a steep rise in deaths from malnutrition in the US. All is not as it appears.
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July 2026

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