No Mercy / No Malice: Break Now, Fix Later

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, this is Ed Elson. Scott is out on vacation, so I'm subbing in for him. This week on No Mercy, No Malice, we're running the latest edition of my newsletter, Simply Put. There is a saying that captures the disruptive nature of Silicon Valley, move fast and break things.

A similar but far more damaging framework informs nearly every policy decision that Donald Trump makes, from the East Wing ballroom to tariffs to Iran. Break now, fix later, as read by George Hahn. Here's a question for you. What was last week's most important headline? Was it Trump's address to the nation, where he told us nothing?

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