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Sarah Chayes
Personal blog · sarahchayes.org/postpoliticshistory
Sarah Chayes's personal blog at sarahchayes.org covers politics and history. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited in one thread as a source of observations on how well leaders govern and whether they enrich themselves while in power. The linked writing covers governance, corruption and leadership.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This site features work by Sarah Chayes aimed at understanding and fighting corruption -- perhaps the greatest threat facing this generation. Here I hope to help restore to their place of honor other values without which our society can not endure. Afghanistan, Corruption
What Hacker News says?
at the moment, strong arguments can be made that what have seen for the last 20 years is a combo of "psychopaths ruling the roost" and "the system is trapped in its logic". sara chayes has some observations on this: How competently have our own leaders been governing for the past twenty years? Meanwhile, how successful have they been at achieving that other objective: adding zeroes to their bank accounts? Which of t…
Comment linking /post/failing-states
on “Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (2011)”Submitted Failing states. How Afghanistan holds a mirror to the West as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The IDEs of August as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Benefits from Afghans' Distress? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion