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Your weekly surf around the web, curated by TAI staff.

Your weekly surf around the web, curated by TAI staff.

Happy Saturday AI staff! Here’s what we’ve been reading this week:

1. Pillbilly wampum

2. Quick-refreshing underwear.

3. The rumors of Al Qaeda’s death are greatly exaggerated.

4. Then the burnings started.

5. “I don’t know what perversity impelled me to raise my hand.”

6. A solar quirk.

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AI contributor Saim Saeed has been reading Husain Haqqani’s Magnificent Delusions, a scathing account of sixty years of US-Pakistan relations. It’s a good and worthy analysis of a complex history, but it ultimately excuses American policymakers too easily for some of their mistakes.