Alicia Dahling, editor
Independent essays for thinking clearly.
Follow the evidence through culture, business, beauty, technology and modern life.
A selected argument
Congress stalled on the Clarity Act, so the SEC is writing crypto's rules itself.
A deregulatory carve-out by agencies, four days after a family-linked bank charter.
See what holds up
What I am looking for
The useful distinction is usually the one the headline leaves out.
Edited in the open
Every argument leaves a paper trail.
The red line does not decorate the page. It follows each story from the confident claim to the inconvenient fact.
The current issue
What holds up. What does not.
Business and Money
Could the LME cancel nickel trades without compensating the winners?
5 min read
Business and Money
Did Silicon Valley Bank’s 2022 capital ratios count its bond losses?
5 min read
Business and Money
Why weren't Tornado Cash's immutable contracts property?
5 min read
AI and Governance
Did an AI assistant narrow the performance gap between support agents?
6 min read
Business and Money
What did Keurig leave out when it called coffee pods recyclable?
5 min readThe Dahling Index
Editor's note
I am interested in the point where a confident claim meets inconvenient evidence.
Alicia writes from the vantage point of someone who spent years watching big decisions get made, justified, revised and occasionally undone.
Why I edit this wayLatest essay: Why does anti-tech extremism keep coming back? with a sourced reference of cells, targets and assessments.
On the tape
The numbers the essays argue about
- CoinbaseCOIN$179.39+4.30%
- StrategyMSTR$154.34+1.90%
- NvidiaNVDA$229.28-0.52%
- DeereDE$620.93-4.85%
- BitcoinBTC-USD$83,784+1.01%
Delayed prices from Yahoo Finance, quoted Oct 9, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT. Cite the figure with its date when an essay quotes it.
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