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Today's Edition · Tuesday, March 18
Behind closed doors, four governors broke ranks. We read the transcripts, called the regional Fed banks, and mapped what a more divided committee could mean for borrowers, savers, and the election-year economy.
Today's Digest
Hand-picked from Business, Tech, Policy, World, and Culture — ready by your second coffee.
Business
Underwriters in London and Hamburg have reclassified two corridors as "elevated" overnight. Container rates follow within hours.
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Tech
Three plants in Arizona and Hsinchu are quietly changing hands as the industry hedges against a single-node world.
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Policy
The new text drops the carve-outs. We read the 184-page draft so you don't have to.
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World
A former central banker explains why Milei's team is now flirting with the idea it spent two decades rejecting.
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Culture
Iceland's new city librarian on hot tubs, AI ethics, and why every neighborhood deserves a 2 a.m. reading room.
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Across the desks
Today's deeper coverage, organized by the desks that edited it.
Business · Featured
For years, direct lenders operated below the statistical radar. A new line item in last week's H.8 release suggests that era is ending — and that regulators are starting to ask the questions bankers have long avoided.
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Tech · Featured
Founded by two ex-MIT researchers with a $40M seed round, Conifer Labs says it has a different answer to the scaling question. We spent two days in Hanover to find out.
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Tech
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Policy · Featured
A 42-page draft circulating on the Hill would unlock middle-density construction in 9,000 U.S. towns. We talked to four of its authors.
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World · Featured
From Brasília to Jakarta, governments are writing a foreign policy that refuses to choose. Our correspondents report from four capitals.
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This week, at length
Slower pieces from the week — chosen for a Sunday-morning coffee, not a morning commute.
World · Essay
A 2,400-kilometer ride across a country that is losing 1,400 herders a year.
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Policy · Investigation
How a single algorithm in Allegheny County became a national model — and a national fight.
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Tech · Profile
A six-person team in Kitchener is building the speech model your phone won't ship.
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Culture · Essay
Forty-one years of vinyl, three owners, and the city that changed around them.
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