What I read this week...

2022 Midterms: Voters prefer sanity (Common Sense)

Candidate quality mattered (FiveThirtyEight)

Political media is broken (Popular Information)

Democrats keep falling for ‘Superstar Losers’ (The Atlantic)

The reason for Meta’s massive layoffs? Ghosts in the machine (WIRED)

Inside the Twitter meltdown (Platformer)

FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall (WSJ)

Sequoia’s bad year just got much worse as its $210M stake in FTX looks worthless (Newcomer)

Henry Paulson: A smarter China approach (Semafor)

What the midterm results mean for Biden’s Asia trip and Xi meeting (NPR)

Chip-making juggernaut TSMC eyes multibillion-dollar Arizona factory expansion (WSJ)

Marriage is a team sport (The Atlantic)