Happy Friday, and welcome to a special edition of The Stratosphere focused on all things S.B.F.

Today, two weeks out from the spectacular collapse of FTX and the fall of its founder Sam Bankman-Fried, a look at some questions percolating in the S.B.F. industrial complex: How much money did S.B.F. actually donate to politics? (I have new details on S.B.F.’s contributions to Guarding Against Pandemics.) What does the future hold for his mom’s and his brother’s respective nonprofit organizations as Sam falls into scandal? And how will the implosion of FTX impact the broader project of effective altruism?

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I first talked to Sam Bankman-Fried in late 2020 when I saw that he was a major donor to a new, somewhat mysterious super PAC, Future Forward, that I was following closely that cycle. He and I talked off the record, but it was clear even then that...