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The Jury Could Not Decide. The Insanity Defense Still Works.•He Ran the 9/11 Fund. Nothing Like It Has Been Built Since.•Trump Built a Movement Around Himself. A Historian Asks What Outlives Him.•A KGB Prison Held a Library. Sharansky Found Socrates There.•At 73, He Earned a PhD. The Lesson Isn't About Age.•Galliano Steps Down. The Question Is Who Anointed Him.•Meta Pays Billions. Regulators Pick the Cure.•Parents Are Holding Kids Back. The System Didn't Ask.•The Jury Could Not Decide. The Insanity Defense Still Works.•He Ran the 9/11 Fund. Nothing Like It Has Been Built Since.•Trump Built a Movement Around Himself. A Historian Asks What Outlives Him.•A KGB Prison Held a Library. Sharansky Found Socrates There.•At 73, He Earned a PhD. The Lesson Isn't About Age.•Galliano Steps Down. The Question Is Who Anointed Him.•Meta Pays Billions. Regulators Pick the Cure.•Parents Are Holding Kids Back. The System Didn't Ask.•
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CMClara MendelFounder & EditorClara Mendel founded The Signal after two decades inside newsrooms that, in her words, "started telling reader…APArthur PenhaleEditor-in-ChiefArthur Penhale runs the desk and guards the house standard: two independent sources for every fact, opinion cl…RBRuth BarrowU.S.Ruth Barrow covers the country as it is actually lived — courthouses, school boards, city halls and shop floor…ENElias NavarroWorldElias Navarro is The Signal's foreign correspondent. Borders, wars, migrations and the machinery of states — f…HOHelen OkaforBusinessHelen Okafor covers markets, companies and technology with a simple method: read the filings, follow the incen…MAMiles AshfordCultureMiles Ashford is The Signal's critic. He covers books, institutions, the arts and the strange things people be…TVTessa VaughanIdeasTessa Vaughan writes the Ideas essays: first-principles arguments about how we live now. She holds that a posi…