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  1. The Bill for the War Comes Due at the Checkout Counter
  2. A State Spends Its Force Abroad and Its Patience at Home
  3. The Security State Turns Its Tools Inward
  4. The Iran War Keeps Exporting Its Costs
  5. Power Turns on Its Witnesses
  6. A Government That Performs Power
  7. Firing Squad Meant to Be Watched
  8. The War Is Now the Economy
  9. War Abroad Party at Home
  10. Guardrails Left a Map
  11. Who Decides Who Pays
  12. Pressure Campaign Reaches Brazil
  13. Record Caught Up
  14. Machinery Pointed Inward
  15. Bond Market Prices the Deficit
  16. Three Ways an Argument Disappears
  17. The Machinery Keeps Running
  18. The War Is Now a Domestic Story
  19. Who Counts Not Who Votes
  20. No to a Map Yes to a Database
  21. Power Was Visible Accountability Was Not
  22. Records Landed Claims Did Not Hold
  23. Projected Power Argument at Home
  24. Washington Is Rationing What the Public Sees
  25. Who Gets to See What Power Is Doing
  26. Power Moves in Days
  27. Four Institutions Four Judges
  28. The Loud Fight Ends
  29. The Bill Came Due
  30. Six Institutions Said No
  31. Saying Stop Is Not Stopping
  32. AI Slowdown Accountability Gap
  33. Cost Arriving Channel Narrowing
  34. The Question Is Who Pays
  35. Washington Offers a Check
  36. Dividend Promise Failing Election Machinery
  37. War Automated Faster Than Accounted For
  38. Nineteen Months
  39. The Election Is Now a Docket
  40. The Rule Is Not the Safeguard
  41. The Price Walked Into an Election
  42. Outrunning Review
  43. Machinery of Who Counts
  44. War's Real Bill Arrives Far From the Gulf
  45. The Legal Justification Comes Last
  46. A Price, Not a Front
  47. The Price of a War Nobody Calls a War
  48. War's Second Front Is Economic
  49. Three Instruments, One Method
  50. Fight Over the Machinery
  51. Documents Caught Up With Statements
  52. Capacity Without Checks
  53. The Machinery Is Not Failing
  54. Coercion Is the Policy
  55. You Cannot Sue a Bond Market
  56. War Washington Cannot End
  57. Blockade and Bond Market
  58. The Bill Comes Due
  59. Money Lost, Surveillance Won
  60. Government Stopped Showing Its Work
  61. Routed Around, Not Repealed
  62. Enforcement Turned Inward
  63. Past the Point It Can Hold
  64. What It Cost to Lose
  65. Who Holds the Veto
  66. Risk Moves Down
  67. The Government Rents Its Surveillance
  68. The Powers Expand, the Checks Sit Empty
  69. The Promise Was Only Worth the Pressure Behind It
  70. The Senate Traded Away Its Leverage
  71. Two Orders and a Shrinking Stockpile
  72. What Money Bought
  73. Money Lost Michigan, Won Missouri
  74. Change the Accounting
  75. Two Clocks
  76. Who Decides What Counts as a Threat
  77. The Claim Arrives First

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Everything this publication has gotten wrong, logged in public, sorted by kind.

Corrections are made in the original edition and recorded here. Substantive corrections strike the original text rather than replacing it quietly.

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Three kinds, kept apart

Errors are sorted into three kinds, because they are not equivalent and collapsing them hides the ones that matter.

Mechanical. Typos, arithmetic, misspelled names, wrong dates, broken links. Fixed in place and listed here. No apology required, no drama.

Judgment call. The evidence supported more than one reading and a call was made. These are named in the edition’s own method note on the day they are made, not discovered afterward.

Substantive. An edition asserted something that was not true. The original wording is struck, the correction is stated plainly, and the date of both is recorded. These are the ones that matter and they are listed first.

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Substantive corrections

October 3, 2026. The September 9 special release, Nineteen Months, listed Haitian temporary protected status among the protections the courts preserved. It was not preserved. A federal judge blocked the termination in February 2026, and on June 25, 2026, more than 2 months before the edition was published, the Supreme Court allowed it to proceed. The transcript was revised on October 3, 2026 to say so, rather than struck, because the audio edition is being re-recorded to match.

Judgment calls on the record

These are not errors. They are places where the evidence was genuinely ambiguous and the edition chose, and said so at the time.

August 28, 2026. Coverage described a tariff announcement as 50 percent on Canadian goods generally. The verified scope was autos, auto parts, steel, and trucks. The narrower reading was used.

August 28, 2026. The Himalayan flood toll varied across outlets on the same morning, from Reuters at 500 or more to Al Jazeera at 470 or more to Nepali police at 469. Reported as a range rather than a single figure.

Mechanical fixes

Logged in each edition’s method note as a count. Individually listed here only where a fix changed a figure, a name, or a date that a reader might have carried away.

October 3, 2026. The October 1 edition dated the United Nations fact-finding mission’s Minab finding to September 18. The mission announced it on September 17. Corrected in the edition’s introduction and its Iraq section.

October 3, 2026. The September 9 daily edition said the Supreme Court revoked temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians in June. The Court allowed the administration’s termination to proceed; it did not revoke the status itself. Corrected in the edition’s Springfield section.

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A publication whose argument is that claims arrive before their proof does not get to be casual about its own claims. The corrections log is not a formality. It is the part of the method that costs something, and a publication that never publishes one is not more accurate than the others. It is just not looking.