Monday’s Interests: Settlement Agreements, Totalitarianism & Trade Wars

Monday’s interests are all about News, Politics and Current Events.  Today we were interested in the depressing truth at the center of settlement agreements, the NYPD squad charged with catching predators, totalitarianism and trade wars.

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• It’s more than depressing in this moment of unprecedented transparency to unearth a secret world of interconnected power lawyers who all row in the same direction for their interconnected power clients. It doesn’t much feel like a fair fight when everywhere you look, it’s the same eight guys versus Gloria Allred. — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate

Read

• Secret Handshake : The depressing truth at the center of the O’Reilly and Trump settlement agreements (Dahlia Lithwick, Slate)
• To Catch a Predator: The NYPD’s top sex-crimes investigator tried to bust Harvey Weinstein three years ago. Then the DA stepped in. (Kathy Dobie, NYMag)
• How to Win a Trade War With China (Zachary Karabell, Politico)
• The Terror of Totalitarianism Explained (Shane Parrish, Farnam Street)
• Headlines making you anxious? Delay reading them (Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian)

listen

• Nobody Wins a Trade War (Cato Daily Podcast)
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  watch

• Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part One) (Partially Examined Life, YouTube)

• Look

  • Editors Choice Pictures (Reuters)
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