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Rebellion in the Backlands

With parallels to the United States’s colonial past, Backlands: The Canudos Campaign, a classic of Brazilian literature, and Bacurau, a new film, offer crucial insight into the past, present, and future of Brazil Read More
Podcast

Good Guys with Guns

Rethinking America’s not-so-complicated relationship with guns Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

A technical officer at the World Health Organization warned that consuming alcohol was an “unhelpful coping strategy” for cabin fever. Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, the archduke Karl von Habsburg of Austria, Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar of Iran, basketball star Kevin Durant, reality-television host Andy Cohen, actor Idris Elba, Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan, and Senator Rand Paul all tested positive for the coronavirus. Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Oklahoma governor Mike Stitt posted a photo of himself at a crowded Oklahoma City food hall captioned “It’s packed tonight!”; Stitt later deleted the tweet and declared a state of emergency. Read More
Podcast

The Old Normal

Into the morass: a historical view of America’s disastrous foreign policy Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Tito’s Handmade Vodka urged the public not to use its vodka as hand sanitizer, as it has insufficient alcohol content to kill germs.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion to overturn a decision that he had authored.

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Publisher’s Note

The Sanders Virus

“What’s almost never discussed by the ‘experts’ on television is the political parties’ real raison d’être and their obsession with maintaining their grip on power and with unabashed cronyism.”

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Police armed with locally produced slingshots were deployed to prevent Trump from being attacked by monkeys at the Taj Mahal.

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Podcast

Vicious Cycles

No news isn’t an option: a consideration of the function and meaning of the news media

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

“Papa” John Schnatter retracted a claim he made last month that he had eaten “40 pizzas in the last 30 days,” admitting that he had been referring to eating “parts of pieces” rather than entire pies.

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Publisher’s Note

The “Affair”

“I was immediately struck by the fundamental difference between the ‘seventh art’ and literature.”

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Podcast

Selective Hearing

Towards a critical understanding of podcasts

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

In New Hampshire, Joe Biden called a woman 56 years his junior “a lying, dog-faced pony soldier,” which his campaign incorrectly attributed to a film starring John Wayne.

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Satire

The Philanthropist’s Lonely Path

A wealthy man bravely defends his choice of charities

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

A Mennonite accountant was charged with defrauding his Amish neighbors.

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Perspective

The World According to Grapes

Hockey fight in Canada: how the firing of a legacy sports broadcaster exposed the frailty of Canada’s national myth

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Podcast

“My Gang Is Jesus”

Believe it or not: the simultaneous rise of gang membership and evangelical Christianity in Rio de Janeiro

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump said that he would not rule out sanctions against Iraq, where active-duty U.S. troops are still stationed.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

In response to a major volcanic eruption, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines vowed he would “eat that ashfall. I’m even going to pee on Taal, that goddamned volcano.”

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Podcast

Trumpism After Trump

More than four more years? A look at the philosophy and die-hard adherents of National Conservatism

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Postcard

Future Healers of Tomorrow

A summer camp for young mediums

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

A decorated veteran of the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq had his prosthetic limbs repossessed from his home in Mississippi when the VA declined to pay for them. Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

A decorated veteran of the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq had his prosthetic limbs repossessed from his home in Mississippi when the VA declined to pay for them.

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Podcast

Oceans Apart

The Comoro Islands are a microcosm of the global climate crisis to come

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott complained on an Israeli radio show that the world is “in the grip of a climate cult.”

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

A candidate for Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party cosplayed as a character from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion at the Taiwan Grand Triumph concert.

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