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Seven Steps to Heaven

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The voice: on Jon Fosse’s Septology Read More
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“Would Henri Alleg’s La question have been published—would it have seen the light of day—without Jérôme Lindon’s moral fortitude?“ Read More
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Sri Lanka’s president demoted the country’s health minister, who advocated for sorcery as a treatment for COVID-19. Read More
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Dozens of articles written by the co-founder of the fact-checking site Snopes were taken down after an investigation revealed that he had serially plagiarized BuzzFeed. Read More
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Men in Dark Times

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The banality of misreading Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism Read More
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The Fall of Baghdad

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The United States must decide who gets left behind Read More
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Three people were injured when an iceberg collapsed at Tennessee’s Titanic Museum Attraction. Read More
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Waterlog and Green Green Green

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Surf and turf: Leanne Shapton on Roger Deakin’s swimming memoir and Gillian Osborne on her wild essay collection Read More
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The Thai government banned frightening news. Read More
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Home Country

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False cognates: on the diversity and shared experiences within the Latino community Read More
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Researchers developed a test that can detect a type of brain tumor in urine. Read More
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“We just call it the variant,” said the CEO of Delta Air Lines, speaking of the Delta strain of the coronavirus. Read More
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A Complicating Energy

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I never knew I needed you: the detrimental effects of isolation and the importance of strangers Read More
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Toe the Line

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“I get impatient reading too many points of view that are similar to my own.” Read More
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A Saharan dust plume reached Texas. Read More
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The Man Who Loved Presidents

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Thomas Frank on The Soul of America Read More
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Regarding Michael Pollan’s New Book This is Your Mind on Plants

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China celebrated the 100th anniversary of the CCP with a mass wedding, a trivia contest, and a speech in which President Xi warned foreign governments that those who interfere in China’s affairs will have their “heads bashed bloody against a great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people.” Read More
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At least 5,000 birds disappeared during a British pigeon race. Read More
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Hard Bargain

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On the ground during the unionization effort in Bessemer, Alabama Read More
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News You Can Use

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“How did these clever policymakers in Congress—supported by hundreds of academic economists—achieve their ambitions?” Read More
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It was reported that a West Virginia congressman used campaign funds for 53 purchases at Chick-fil-A. Read More
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A White House press corps flight to the G7 summit was delayed because one of the plane’s engines was filled with cicadas. Read More
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Prayer for a Just War

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Don’t keep calm and carry on: a new way of thinking about action on climate change Read More
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“Partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy,” said Senator Joe Manchin, announcing that he would vote against his own party’s election reform bill. Read More
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Senate Democrats killed a Republican-sponsored bill that forbade the creation of “certain human-animal chimeras.” Read More
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Stages of Grief

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History will recall: ACT UP, COVID-19, and the arts Read More
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More than 100 people lined up outside of an abandoned Bay Area gas station for the chance to sniff a corpse flower in bloom. Read More
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The Anxiety of Influencers

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How to gain followers and influence people: TikTok superstars and the perils of our algorithm-driven society Read More
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Engineers in San Francisco were attempting to silence a loud hum emitted by the Golden Gate Bridge that could be heard 10 miles away. Read More
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