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Colorado representative Lauren Boebert was ejected from a performance of the musical Beetlejuice after vaping, using her phone to record the show, and stroking her companion’s crotch. Read More
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From the Audio Archive: Rachel Kushner

Revisiting our 2018 interviews with Lidija Haas and Rachel Kushner Read More
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Weekly Review

A New Jersey business owner was arrested for using a drone to dye people’s swimming pools green. Read More
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Hamed Esmaeilion

The life of an Iranian-Canadian writer and activist in exile Read More
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Weekly Review

A San Francisco official was forced to resign after he offered a tour during which participants could “get close and personal to the doom and squalor” of the city. Read More
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The Gen X Novel

Reading Zadie Smith’s 'The Fraud' as Gen X literature Read More
Publisher’s Note

A Cloistered France

"The new security perimeter at the Eiffel Tower, designed by architect Dietmar Feichtinger, is intended to be transparent—literally. But it is also a delusion." Read More
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Scientists announced that neurotic people probably shouldn’t colonize Mars. Read More
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An AI-written Microsoft Travel article recommended an Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot. Read More
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A man crashed a stolen garbage truck into a hot tub store on the Dolly Parton Parkway in Tennessee. Read More
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“We have to jump on this trend,” an El Salvador funeral home owner said of his new pink, Barbie-themed coffins. Read More
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President Joe Biden’s dog was reported to have bitten seven people in a four-month span. Read More
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Authorities in Berlin searching for a lioness found a brood of “startled piglets.” Read More
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Officials attempted to apprehend a 5-year-old sea otter who has been accosting local surfers and stealing their boards. Read More
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A poll was reported to have found that over 40 percent of Americans do not know what July Fourth commemorates. Read More
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Weekly Review

“We think that it’s just, air goes through your nostrils and you move. No, there’s a science to breathing.” Read More
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The Doomsday Machine

It’s not morning in America: on the persistent threat of nuclear winter Read More
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Weekly Review

It was reported that a Harvard researcher who studied dishonesty had been accused of fabricating data. Read More
Podcast

After the Titan

An author reflects on his own experience in an amateur submersible Read More
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Weekly Review

A Belgian psychologist found that most adults suffer from “end-of-history illusion.” Read More
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The DIY Submariner

Realizing the eternal dream of journeying into the briny depths—on your own terms Read More
Publisher’s Note

The New Roosevelt?

“What is Biden’s actual record? Will he be reelected simply because his name isn’t Trump?” Read More
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