I’ll take glass half full on this one 🙂

And I do think there are hopeful pieces, like the spirit of solidarity that played a meaningful role (if somewhat ephemeral) in the HIPC and EU cases

You mean the motivations behind them and how they played out are bad news?

I mean sure, far from ideal, but a) unless I'm missing something there aren't other examples on this scale and b) they at least reject facile dismissals like "it will never happen" or "countries could never absorb it"

This chart comes from my new blog series on international investment pushes past and present.

Here's the introductory blog, and I'll be publishing blogs on four case studies that shed light on the investment push needed for climate and development today
www.bu.edu/gdp/2025/11/...

Of course many internet scams come from domestic sources, but we also set up a situation where for a lot of people their only moderately gainful way into the global economy is to try to trick its participants into directing some money their way

It was a good season though and if you have a sleeper Bluesky account and are reading this Trinity Rodman don’t goooo

Any idea how that came about? Support from congressional republicans? Great news but can’t say I saw it coming

Maybe I shouldn’t be but I am continuously surprised by how much the pandemic has been memory holed.

Puts a different spin on those pieces from 2020 expressing curiosity how the Spanish flu didn’t leave a bigger imprint on the collective memory

From here securityconference.org/en/publicati...

But yes, this is part of a much bigger trend timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/why-maga-c...

Thanks Jake!