# The.Ink

A newsletter on politics and culture, money and power -- telling the truth without fear -- from Anand Giridharadas

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## [A traitor to his class wants to upend capitalism](https://the.ink/p/a-traitor-to-his-class-wants-to-upend)

_2026-08-18 · Anand Giridharadas_

Nick Hanauer, Amazon’s first outside investor, on Jeff Bezos’s great blind spot, the myths that made the rich richer, what socialism gets right and wrong, and building an economy of human flourishing

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211735963/72e86be00581f3dfef50c584aec34fb6.mp3)

## [Live today at 12:30 p.m. Eastern: Nick Hanauer, traitor to his class?](https://the.ink/p/live-today-at-1230-pm-eastern-nick)

_2026-08-18 · Anand Giridharadas_

Join me as I talk to a bona fide member of the super-elite who wants America to put capitalists in their proper place

## [What you weren’t supposed to see](https://the.ink/p/what-you-werent-supposed-to-see)

_2026-08-17 · Anand Giridharadas_

As MAN IN THE MIRROR arrives, I want to open the workshop door for the Ink community and share some of what usually disappears along the way. I don’t do this often, so come in before I regret it

## [THE RISE OF AOC: Power](https://the.ink/p/the-rise-of-aoc-power)

_2026-08-15 · Anand Giridharadas_

What happens when a movement wins by losing? And what does it take to win outright?

## [THE RISE OF AOC: Outside, in](https://the.ink/p/the-rise-of-aoc-outside-in)

_2026-08-14 · Anand Giridharadas_

Can a renegade make peace with the system -- and change it?

## [THE RISE OF AOC: Attention!](https://the.ink/p/the-rise-of-aoc-attention)

_2026-08-13 · Anand Giridharadas_

How the youngest woman in Congress learned to leverage sudden, explosive visibility — and what she taught the Democratic Party

## [THE RISE OF AOC: The crucible](https://the.ink/p/the-rise-of-aoc-the-crucible)

_2026-08-12 · Anand Giridharadas_

How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came to her very particular theory of persuasion and power. Part two of my portrait of her rise

## [THE RISE OF AOC: Beginnings](https://the.ink/p/the-rise-of-aoc-beginnings)

_2026-08-11 · Anand Giridharadas_

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shook up American politics when she landed on the political scene -- and continues to shake it up. In part one of my in-depth report on her ascent, we look back at her origins

## [I didn’t like my friend’s intervention. He was right](https://the.ink/p/i-didnt-like-my-friends-intervention)

_2026-08-07 · Anand Giridharadas_

I became a reporter because I wanted to understand people different from me. Then I gave in to a culture that tells us to reduce others. One day, my friend called me out

## [Chovy's Blog: Agentic Coding (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YdfGKUsDuQZR)

_2026-08-07 · **Sponsored**_

Personal posts on agentic coding, moshcode CLI, and security findings.

## [Dave Eggers to lonely Americans: Leave your house](https://the.ink/p/dave-eggers-to-lonely-americans-leave)

_2026-08-07 · The Ink_

In our second conversation with the author, he offers a deceptively simple remedy to a loneliness epidemic in an age of screens

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208999974/f1ad21d508fe10d663d5308ba26deaab.mp3)