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# Why Governments Can’t Count
## Adam Salisbury

Counting every citizen is one of the most basic functions of the state. For much of the world, it remains extraordinarily difficult.
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# The Demons of Non-Denoms
## Ryan Burge

Religion in America was once the domain of institutions. How did it grow to be dominated by cults of personality — and what can the process tell us about the rest of American culture?
- # The Eternal Dance Continues
## The Editors
- interview

# Claude Finds God
## Sam Bowman Kyle Fish

✻\[Perfect stillness\]✻
- # Nine Rules for Managing Humans Managing Nuclear Reactors
## Charles Yang

Admiral Hyman Rickover was the Father of the Nuclear Navy —  and one of the most effective bureaucrats in the history of the U.S. government. He also thought it was impossible to teach management by writing about it, but that didn’t stop him from trying.
- # The State of American Science Funding (For the Next Five Minutes)
## Stuart Buck

A comprehensive but nowhere near exhaustive overview of how the Trump Administration is impacting American science.
- # Yes In My Bamako Yard
## Kurtis Lockhart

Over the next 25 years, Africa is expected to add 900 million people to its cities, the largest wave of urban population growth the world has ever seen. How can the continent begin to prepare today?
- # Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
## Ozy Brennan

There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going on.
- # How to Vaccinate the World
## Priyanka Pulla

The world’s largest vaccine manufacturer — by far — is the Serum Institute of India. How did a struggling horse farm in Pune become one of the most important companies in global health?
- # Scapegoating the Algorithm
## Dan Williams

America’s epistemic challenges run deeper than social media.
- # No Retvrn
## Jack Despain Zhou

An American tradition of embracing modernity.
- # GDP: We Really Don’t Know How Good We Have It
## Oliver Kim

Everyone loves the hockey stick graph of long-run economic growth. For some, it's the basis of an entire worldview. Unfortunately, the numbers don’t add up.

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- # Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Name Above All Names, Inc.
## Elle Hardy
- # How Co-Ops Electrified America
## Kevin Frazier
- # Tripping Alone
## Oshan Jarow
- # Scam Cities
## Tianyu Fang

#### 11: Church & State



Cranberry bouncers. Nuclear submarines. Where do you put 900 million people? Reject tradition, embrace modernity. A family of Zoroastrian horse farmers. Rat cults. Non-rat cults. Who was collecting GDP statistics in the first century? The dark underbelly of SEZs. Giant ants. Stop blaming the algorithms. Is that a church or is it a dispensary? Cyclone emoji. Cyclone emoji. Cyclone emoji.

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