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24 alternatives to A Rogue State Along Two Rivers
A Rogue State Along Two Rivers is a life and entertainment feature from the New York Times, launched in 2014. It explores narratives and stories related to a geopolitical region defined by two rivers, examining its… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A Rogue State Along Two Rivers launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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How a fisherman fought NY state law w/ pre-colonial law
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apar
2016 · paragkhanna.com · its alternatives →
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I built a system that monitors ~200,000 news RSS feeds in near real-time and clusters related articles to show how stories spread across the web. It uses Snowflake’s Arctic model for embeddings and HNSW for fast similarity search. Each “story cluster” shows who published first, how fast it propagated, and how the narrative evolved as more outlets picked it up. Would love feedback on the architecture, scaling approach, and any ways to make the clusters more accurate or useful. Live demo: https://yandori.io/news-flow/
Nov 2025 · yandori.io · its alternatives →
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A civilized reference guide for an uncivilized election
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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MapScroll▲109Hi HN, I built this after getting frustrated trying to map out things like “Ancient mayan ruins” or “James Bond movie locations” on Google "My" Maps. You basically have to drop pins manually, hunt down photos, copy links, it’s slow and never feels like an actual story. With MapScroll, you just type something like “Marco Polo’s route” or “forgotten WWII sites in France”, and it geocodes, grabs images + articles, and plots everything into a shareable story map. Each marker comes with a little gallery and sources tied to your prompt. You can also refine the first draft which AI creates before…
2025 · mapscroll.ai · its alternatives →
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An epic of the violence and depravity of Manifest Destiny
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’m Shaun, and I started the Narratives Project (https://www.narrativesproject.com/), a non-profit that presents divisive news events as contrasting narratives to show why people disagree. Our goal is to lower people’s distress about the news and animosity towards those they disagree with. Our current news media system incites instead of informs. On-the-ground reporting has been replaced by armchair journalism, most people are locked in viewpoint silos that are occasionally penetrated by the worst of the other side, and the entire system is in an escalating panic about…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Youngblood▲71The moral complexity of war & its psychological toll
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Essays on the creation of worlds, from geology to politics
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Cyberstorm▲55A full scale cyber attack against present-day New York
2016 · matthewmather.com · its alternatives →
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The subtle messages inside propaganda
2015 · thisamericanlife.org · its alternatives →
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International politics as the ultimate global game
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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1984▲95A prophecy of the future and rebellion against police states
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hit the trail to your polling place. Don't get dysentery!
2016 · nytimes.com · its alternatives →
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Detailed biography of a quiet revolutionary
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Kickass scifi thriller that maps out the future of democracy
2017 · chireviewofbooks.com · its alternatives →
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Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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William Finnegan's memoir on surfing
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Story of Dutch Manhattan and the colony that shaped America
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Bias▲84The synthesis engine for multi-perspective news
Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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