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Was lockdown worth it?

As the UK braces for a second wave of Covid-19 and grapples with the economic and health tradeoffs of another lockdown, I’ve been…

4 min readAug 6, 2020

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Was lockdown worth it?

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Power Walking

In honor of International Women’s Day, I re-read the piece “Power Walking” by Aminatta Forna. Still gorgeous, still relevant in 2021.

3 min readMar 9, 2021

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Power Walking

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Freedom to choose how you die

Americans demand freedom because they’re too civically illiterate to know they can demand something else, like protection.

3 min readJan 26, 2021

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Freedom to choose how you die

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Are women inherently better leaders than men?

I’m not dwelling on this to be a man-hater. Misunderstanding the lessons of Covid-19 response threatens our preparedness for future crises.

3 min readDec 29, 2020

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New Years Resolutions

COVID-19 has made explicit a choice we have always been asked to make implicitly: choose between the health of our communities and the…

1 min readDec 29, 2020

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On the eve of the 2020 US Election

Bracing (for the second time) for civil war

2 min readNov 2, 2020

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On the eve of the 2020 US Election

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Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

…the way only Democrats know how

4 min readAug 12, 2020

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Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

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Early lessons in the political economy of Covid-19 response

The Asian Tigers provided a roadmap to successful containment which much of the West found inconvenient

4 min readAug 8, 2020

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Early lessons in the political economy of Covid-19 response

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Sasha

Sasha

born 🇷🇺 raised 🇺🇲 living 🇬🇧 — musings about competing political economic paradigms and creating the kind of world in which I might enjoy existing.

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