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Passport queues are lengthening; ad-hoc civilian militias are strengthening. As foreign powers bow out, Taliban militants take district after district\\u2014and the fear of the people is palpable. The pandemic drove a boom in the attention economy, and media companies happily obliged. Now, it seems, an \\u201cattention recession\\u201d looms. And a look at the thoroughly inbred nature of thoroughbred horses.

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