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Latest The ‘Democracy’ Gap

The ‘Democracy’ Gap

Vidcon   Nov 20, 2024  0  23

Almost all Americans say they support democracy—but they have very different ideas about what the word means.

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Latest <em>Say Nothing</em> Goes Beyond Good vs. Evil

<em>Say Nothing</em> Goes Beyond Good vs...

Vidcon   Nov 20, 2024  0  27

A terrific drama captures the struggle of separating who you are from what you fight for.

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Latest Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccines

Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Wrong Abou...

Vidcon   Nov 20, 2024  0  31

Children used to die of diseases far more gruesome and deadly than we remember.

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Latest The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger

The Business-School Scandal That Just Ke...

Vidcon   Nov 20, 2024  0  24

The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.

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Latest I Used to Have Friends. Then They Had Kids.

I Used to Have Friends. Then They Had Ki...

Vidcon   Nov 20, 2024  0  22

How do I rebuild my broken social life?

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Latest Your Armpits Are Trying to Tell You Something

Your Armpits Are Trying to Tell You Some...

Vidcon   Nov 20, 2024  0  36

The best time to apply antiperspirant is right before bed. Seriously.

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Latest What Going ‘Wild on Health’ Looks Like

What Going ‘Wild on Health’ Looks Like...

Vidcon   Nov 20, 2024  0  33

The potential consequences of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s most troubling ideas

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Latest Apple Lost the Plot on Texting

Apple Lost the Plot on Texting

Vidcon   Nov 20, 2024  0  22

A new feature uses AI to summarize push notifications. It sounds great until you actually try it.

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Latest Search the Hollywood AI Database

Search the Hollywood AI Database

Vidcon   Nov 19, 2024  0  54

Use this search tool to see how writing from 139,000 movies and TV shows has trained generative AI.

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Latest There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI

There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywo...

Vidcon   Nov 19, 2024  0  56

Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.

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Latest How Jimmy O. Yang Became a Main Character

How Jimmy O. Yang Became a Main Characte...

Vidcon   Nov 19, 2024  0  87

The actor spent years stuck in small, clichéd roles. Now, starring in Interior Chinatown, he’s figuring out who he wants to be.

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Latest ‘We’re Just Going to Have to Deal With Him’

‘We’re Just Going to Have to Deal With H...

Vidcon   Nov 19, 2024  0  41

Europe braces for Trump.

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Latest The Thin Line Between Biopic and Propaganda

The Thin Line Between Biopic and Propaga...

Vidcon   Nov 19, 2024  0  31

The success of Reagan reflects the market demands of a more fragmented moviegoing public—and reality.

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Latest What De La Soul’s Big Mistake Cost Hip-Hop

What De La Soul’s Big Mistake Cost Hip-H...

Vidcon   Nov 19, 2024  0  33

A new book revisits the revolutionary trio’s decision to renounce its debut album, and the implications for the future of music.

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Latest Why Are Dogs So Obsessed With Lamb Chop?

Why Are Dogs So Obsessed With Lamb Chop?

Vidcon   Nov 19, 2024  0  55

In a market with thousands of toys, somehow the 1960s puppet has become ubiquitous.

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Latest This Is What Record-Breaking Bad Air Looks Like

This Is What Record-Breaking Bad Air Loo...

Vidcon   Nov 19, 2024  0  31

Recent images of the record-setting smog blanketing the area

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Latest He Was the World’s Longest-Held Death-Row Inmate. He Was Also Innocent.

He Was the World’s Longest-Held Death-Ro...

Vidcon   Nov 19, 2024  0  30

Each day for 50 years, the Japanese boxer Iwao Hakamada woke up unsure whether it would be his last.

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Latest How Trump Could Make Congress Go Away for a While

How Trump Could Make Congress Go Away fo...

Vidcon   Nov 19, 2024  0  20

An untested provision in the Constitution might allow him to install his Cabinet picks no matter what the Senate has to say.

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Latest Drought Is an Immigration Issue

Drought Is an Immigration Issue

Vidcon   Nov 19, 2024  0  21

And Trump's climate policies are designed to ignore that.

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Latest The Senate Exists for a Reason

The Senate Exists for a Reason

Vidcon   Nov 19, 2024  0  18

These four Trump picks should be stopped.

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Latest A Classic Blockbuster for a Sunday Afternoon

A Classic Blockbuster for a Sunday After...

Vidcon   Nov 18, 2024  0  50

Culture and entertainment musts from Jen Balderama

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Latest Trump’s New York Sentencing Must Proceed

Trump’s New York Sentencing Must Proceed...

Vidcon   Nov 18, 2024  0  59

An election is not a jury verdict, and winning an election doesn’t make you any less guilty.

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Latest Stop Looking at Your Therapist

Stop Looking at Your Therapist

Vidcon   Nov 18, 2024  0  41

The couch is there for a reason.

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Latest Even Worse Than <em>The Da Vinci Code</em>

Even Worse Than <em>The Da Vinci Code</e...

Vidcon   Nov 18, 2024  0  42

Conclave treats Catholic theology as mere policy, like the membership rules at Augusta National.

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Latest Failed Elegy

Failed Elegy

Vidcon   Nov 18, 2024  0  30

It seems these days every poem is a failed elegyfor the world. Each one asks correctly, what gooddid writing this do? I cannot den...

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Latest The Many Sides of Charli XCX

The Many Sides of Charli XCX

Vidcon   Nov 18, 2024  0  28

On SNL, the singer who popularized the “brat” ethos showed that she can be goofy and versatile.

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Latest The Perverse Logic of Trump’s Nomination Circus

The Perverse Logic of Trump’s Nomination...

Vidcon   Nov 17, 2024  0  61

The sheer quantity of individually unqualified selections might make blocking any of them harder.

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Latest Making Government Efficient Again

Making Government Efficient Again

Vidcon   Nov 17, 2024  0  57

An incoming Trump administration plans to ransack the civil service. But it needs reform, not demolition.

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Latest A Film Impossible to Have Mild Feelings About

A Film Impossible to Have Mild Feelings ...

Vidcon   Nov 17, 2024  0  56

Emilia Pérez is messy, excessive, and manipulative—and spectacular because of it.

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Latest Nick Cave’s Revised Rules for Men

Nick Cave’s Revised Rules for Men

Vidcon   Nov 17, 2024  1  30

On his new album, he seems to want to help men cope with feelings of insecurity and irrelevance.

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Latest The Inner Lives of Musicians

The Inner Lives of Musicians

Vidcon   Nov 17, 2024  0  36

Learning where famous artists sleep and what they eat is like finally glimpsing the unknowable.

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Latest American Kakistocracy

American Kakistocracy

Vidcon   Nov 17, 2024  0  29

Italy knows a thing or two about what the United States faces—but there are key differences between the two countries’ experiences...

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Latest What’s Behind Trump’s Controversial Cabinet Picks

What’s Behind Trump’s Controversial Cabi...

Vidcon   Nov 17, 2024  0  27

Trump’s nominees share two main attributes: loyalty and loathing.

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Latest Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?

Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?

Vidcon   Nov 17, 2024  0  21

Behind much social-justice discourse is a self-interested struggle for power.

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Latest Israel Is Fighting a Different War Now

Israel Is Fighting a Different War Now

Vidcon   Nov 16, 2024  0  60

The Israeli high command now sees all of its conflicts as elements of a single, multifront war with Iran.

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Latest What the Band Eats

What the Band Eats

Vidcon   Nov 16, 2024  0  83

Memories of the meals I ate growing up with the Grateful Dead

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Latest Photos of the Week: Blue Pond, Camel Fair, Embracing Peace

Photos of the Week: Blue Pond, Camel Fai...

Vidcon   Nov 16, 2024  0  86

Speed climbing in Saudi Arabia, wildfires in California and New Jersey, a blanket of smog in New Delhi, a celebration of rural lif...

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Latest <em>The Onion</em>’s Most Trenchant Headline

<em>The Onion</em>’s Most Trenchant Head...

Vidcon   Nov 16, 2024  0  38

The satirical site’s announcement that it is acquiring Alex Jones’s Infowars created confusion—and perfectly captured the media wo...

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Latest What the Internet Age Is Taking Away From Writers

What the Internet Age Is Taking Away Fro...

Vidcon   Nov 16, 2024  0  56

Authors tirelessly self-market online, but I find myself wishing that they still had the option to disappear.

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Latest Amazon Haul Is an Omen

Amazon Haul Is an Omen

Vidcon   Nov 16, 2024  0  43

Welcome to the slop era of online shopping.

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Latest Get Ready for Higher Food Prices

Get Ready for Higher Food Prices

Vidcon   Nov 16, 2024  0  29

Trump vowed to lower food prices. His policies will almost certainly do the opposite.

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Latest RFK Jr. Collects His Reward

RFK Jr. Collects His Reward

Vidcon   Nov 16, 2024  0  28

The conspiratorial and chaotic independent is poised to join the government that he claims is lying to you.

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Latest AI’s Fingerprints Were All Over the Election

AI’s Fingerprints Were All Over the Elec...

Vidcon   Nov 16, 2024  0  26

But deepfakes and disinformation weren’t the main issues.

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Latest The Bluesky Bubble

The Bluesky Bubble

Vidcon   Nov 16, 2024  0  23

This is a relapse, not a fix.

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Latest Alex Jones Just Went Somewhere Else

Alex Jones Just Went Somewhere Else

Vidcon   Nov 16, 2024  0  23

The Infowars founder is already broadcasting his conspiracy theories on a new site.

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