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Routine Maintenance

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Death to life hacking: on the value and freedom offered by habit Read More
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Tesla announced that it would no longer allow motorists to play video games on their car’s touchscreen while driving. Read More
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New York City’s mayor-elect, Eric Adams, who has said that he will move to close Rikers Island by 2027, announced that he would resume solitary confinement for detainees there, a punishment that current mayor Bill de Blasio planned to end on the final day of his term. Read More
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A Firm Hand

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Inside McKinsey and its attempt to reduce violence at Rikers Island Read More
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Hypocrisy

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“I’m sure a good number of people found that scene to be amusing and saw Biden’s little doze as an apt illustration of the President’s difficulties in achieving his aims.” Read More
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“You firebug little bastard, you’re not going to keep us down,” said a Fox News host after the media company’s New York Christmas tree was set ablaze. Read More
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The Odor of Things

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Nobody knows about noses: unpacking new research on our ability to smell Read More
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No arrests were made in connection to a 200-child brawl at a trampoline park in Tampa, Florida. Read More
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Desperately Seeking Sebald

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Odyssey and oracle: reassessing the iconic German author’s work Read More
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“Believe me, the English will not have a magic Christmas,” said Jean Michel Fournier, a French fisherman who helped form a blockade at the port of Calais to prevent trade until the two countries sort out their post-Brexit fishing licensing. Read More
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A school district in Missouri announced that it will be hiring its own high school students as cooks, maintenance workers, and childcare providers to compensate for staffing shortages. Read More
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A Posthumous Shock

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Rethinking the ways we perceive trauma in the past and present Read More
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Agencies reported a critical shortage of people trained to play Santa Claus over the holidays this year. Read More
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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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On James Baldwin, expatriate writers, and the tension between the United States and France Read More
Publisher’s Note

Biden Turns Trumpist on Tariffs

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“How to explain the Democrats’ sudden switch from free-trade dogma to free-trade restrictions?” Read More
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Taliban officials instructed taxi drivers in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province to refuse rides to gunmen unaffiliated with their organization. Read More
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Buckingham Palace said that Queen Elizabeth would not attend the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, where local residents have complained of a growing rat infestation. Read More
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Ad Astra

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The space between us: assessing the potential for conflict in space Read More
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A medical school in Japan discovered that it had mixed up plumbing and, for the past 30 years, had been serving toilet water for “drinking, washing hands, and gargl[ing].” Read More
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Good Mother

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On trauma, Native parenthood, and decolonizing journalism Read More
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“How do you oppose the Holocaust?” a Texas teacher asked an administrator who said that educators should consider “other perspectives” in lessons about the Shoah. Read More
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“The Fire Is for the Greedy”

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Heat and historical memory in Nawabshah, Pakistan Read More
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“Put on the Diamonds”

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On the act of eating one’s words (and worse): Vivian Gornick and Sigrid Nunez discuss the experience of humiliation Read More
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Six Minutes of Silence

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I would have preferred those few moments of silent reflection to be multiplied by ten, if only to encourage the political and media leadership to shut up and think about all the mistakes they made and all the nonsense they spewed in the two decades that followed. Read More
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A school in Belgium alerted parents that their children had been playing games they had seen on Squid Game and beating up the losers as a way to approximate killings in the show. Read More
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To Be a Field of Poppies

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Compost yourself: on the social, psychological, and ecological implications of rethinking what happens to our bodies after we die Read More
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It was announced that pieces of a bridge on which A. A. Milne, author of the Winnie the Pooh books, played with his son will go up for auction at the same house that sold 20 tons of the Berlin Wall. Read More
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A U.S. federal judge ordered Facebook to release records of all posts promoting violence against the Rohingya ethnic group that the company had previously declined to share because of privacy concerns. Read More
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The pope expressed confusion as to why some cardinals were refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Read More
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Bad News

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Nostalgia for something that never was: deconstructing the power of disinformation Read More
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