The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Colombia Tolima Los Brasiles Peaberry Organic coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads:

Trump’s threat to economic data: The federal statistical system is at risk. Declining data quality would compound the harm of an economic downturn or financial crisis. (Slow Boring)

‘Why would he take such a risk?’ How a famous Chinese author befriended his censor: Online dissent is a serious crime in China. So why did a Weibo censor help me publish posts critical of the Communist party? (The Guardian)

What America Can Learn From the Americas: Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America. It may make sense to think of the United States as a wealthy Latin American country, rather than an offshoot of Europe mysteriously governed by

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