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America This Week: October 16-22, 2022

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America This Week: October 16-22, 2022

Musk rouses ire of national security machinery, ho-hum nuke talk progresses, a journalist and tons of crabs disappear, Liz Truss outlives fruit flies, three finance headlines, and more

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Eric Salzman
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America This Week: October 16-22, 2022

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Just when you thought it might be safe to lay out in the sun for a mellow weekend, after one of those work weeks that glides uneventfully along a peaceful river of non-terrifying news events, social media explodes with yet another horrifying headline. After years of hints that grand showdowns may be coming in both the areas of censorship and nat-sec authoritarianism, word leaked Friday that an ultimate test case might just be arriving. Details on that story, and more, on America This Week.

Reminder: you can listen to a podcast discussion between Walter Kirn and me, Matt Taibbi, about the stories below by clicking here.

In the meantime, the top headlines this week:

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