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Latest Maybe It Was Never About the Factory Jobs

Maybe It Was Never About the Factory Job...

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0  5

The theory that populist economic policies can win back the working class for Democrats has been tried, and it has failed.

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Latest Should You Be Prepping for Trump?

Should You Be Prepping for Trump?

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0  6

Some liberals are stocking up on and freeze-drying food—and say that others should be too.

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Latest Not Just Sober-Curious, but Neo-Temperate

Not Just Sober-Curious, but Neo-Temperat...

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0  5

How sobriety went from a radical social movement to a tool of self-optimization

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Latest A Palestinian Story Unlike Any Other

A Palestinian Story Unlike Any Other

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0  3

In her debut novel, Too Soon, Betty Shamieh isn’t trying to educate or enlighten.

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Latest A Novel That Performs an Incomplete Resurrection

A Novel That Performs an Incomplete Resu...

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0  3

Lily Tuck’s attempt to bring to life a victim of the Holocaust turns her into a prosecutor, not a novelist.

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Latest A Wider War Has Already Started in Europe

A Wider War Has Already Started in Europ...

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0  3

Putin’s not-so-quiet sabotage campaign against European democracies

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Latest The Case for Brain Rot

The Case for Brain Rot

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0  4

The new language of the internet is both mind-numbing and irresistible.

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Latest Time for Senate Republicans to Decide

Time for Senate Republicans to Decide

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0  6

The confirmation of all of Trump’s Cabinet choices isn’t a foregone conclusion.

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Latest Eight Perfect Episodes of TV

Eight Perfect Episodes of TV

Vidcon   Jan 13, 2025  0  7

Picks from Girls, The X-Files, SpongeBob, and more.

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Latest The Easiest Way to Keep Your Friends

The Easiest Way to Keep Your Friends

Vidcon   Jan 13, 2025  0  8

It’s a little boring, a little type A, and a lot better than letting relationships fizzle.

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Latest Reckless Driving Isn’t Just a Design Problem

Reckless Driving Isn’t Just a Design Pro...

Vidcon   Jan 13, 2025  0  5

Road-safety activists convinced themselves that law enforcement was unnecessary.

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Latest How the Ski Business Got Too Big for Its Boots

How the Ski Business Got Too Big for Its...

Vidcon   Jan 13, 2025  0  5

A recent strike at a major resort has put the spotlight on what a bad deal both workers and visitors are getting.

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Latest We stay and its ours

We stay and its ours

Vidcon   Jan 13, 2025  0  5

A poem for Sunday

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Latest Altadena After the Fire

Altadena After the Fire

Vidcon   Jan 12, 2025  0  10

The pain of one of the last middle-class towns in Los Angeles

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Latest The Message in the Sky Over Los Angeles

The Message in the Sky Over Los Angeles

Vidcon   Jan 12, 2025  0  14

What it means to go from smog to smoke

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Latest The Choices That Create Isolation

The Choices That Create Isolation

Vidcon   Jan 12, 2025  0  15

Everyday decisions accumulate into a life.

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Latest What the H-1B Visa Fight Is Really About

What the H-1B Visa Fight Is Really About

Vidcon   Jan 12, 2025  0  4

Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders agree on how to reform the suddenly controversial immigration program. But the real conflict here is ...

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Latest Trump Criticizes Foreign Allies

Trump Criticizes Foreign Allies

Vidcon   Jan 12, 2025  0  6

Meanwhile, some of the president-elect’s most controversial Cabinet picks are set to appear before the Senate.

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Latest How Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled L.A.’s Fires

How Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled L.A...

Vidcon   Jan 12, 2025  0  7

The disaster can teach California how to rebuild, if the state will listen.

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Latest Trump Is Right That Pax Americana Is Over

Trump Is Right That Pax Americana Is Ove...

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  10

But will he bother to build something new?

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Latest Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment

Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  6

America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

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Latest What to Read When the Odds Are Against You

What to Read When the Odds Are Against Y...

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  8

Literature is full of reminders that long odds can sometimes be surmounted.

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Latest Drop the Outrage Over Trump’s Foreign-Policy Bluster

Drop the Outrage Over Trump’s Foreign-Po...

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  10

The way to deal with the bombast is by turning it against a leader who leads a movement that is actually deeply divided.

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Latest Photos of the Week: Siberian Tiger, Frosty Foliage, Snowball Fight

Photos of the Week: Siberian Tiger, Fros...

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  8

A snow-and-ice festival in northern China, destructive wildfires in Los Angeles, Ethiopian Orthodox Christmas celebrations in Addi...

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Latest The Saint America Needs Now

The Saint America Needs Now

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  9

Kindness has become countercultural. Perhaps Saint Francis can help.

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Latest The Unfightable Fire

The Unfightable Fire

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  6

The many fires burning around Los Angeles are pressing the limits of firefighting.

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Latest Trump’s Sentencing Made No One Happy

Trump’s Sentencing Made No One Happy

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  6

But it still mattered for the rule of law.

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Latest Watch—And Rewatch—This 215-Minute Film

Watch—And Rewatch—This 215-Minute Film...

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  5

The Brutalist’s ambitious gamble with the audience mostly pays off.

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Latest Can Generative AI Uncover the ‘Language of Biology’?

Can Generative AI Uncover the ‘Language ...

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  4

Scientists have collected troves of DNA and microscopic imaging data from human cells—and now they have a tool that might make sen...

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Latest Why We Celebrate When Copyright Expires

Why We Celebrate When Copyright Expires

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  6

Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

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Latest The Intellectual Rationalization for Annexing Greenland

The Intellectual Rationalization for Ann...

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  5

Donald Trump’s defenders have little choice but to cast his trolling as a clever geopolitical stratagem.

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Latest These Bizarre Theories About the L.A. Wildfires Endanger Everyone

These Bizarre Theories About the L.A. Wi...

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  7

Societies that scapegoat foreign powers for domestic problems erode their ability to solve those problems.

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Latest Is Anyone Shocked By <em>Babygirl</em>?

Is Anyone Shocked By <em>Babygirl</em>?

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  4

Don’t look to Nicole Kidman for a frank accounting of what sexual domination looks like.

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Latest The Consensus On Havana Syndrome Is Cracking

The Consensus On Havana Syndrome Is Crac...

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  4

After long denying the possibility, some intelligence agencies are no longer willing to rule out a mystery weapon.

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Latest Elon Has Appointed Himself King of the World

Elon Has Appointed Himself King of the W...

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  3

After helping Trump win the election, the world’s richest man is turning his attention to Europe.

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Latest Rock On, Readers

Rock On, Readers

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  5

Some hall-of-fame responses about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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Latest It’s Time to Evacuate. Wait, Never Mind.

It’s Time to Evacuate. Wait, Never Mind....

Vidcon   Jan 11, 2025  0  6

I have received 11 alerts. As far as I can tell, they were all sent in error.

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Latest Trump Is Poised to Turn the DOJ Into His Personal Law Firm

Trump Is Poised to Turn the DOJ Into His...

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  13

The question the Senate confirmation process must address is whether the department’s tradition of independence will be supplanted...

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Latest A Virtual Cell Is a ‘Holy Grail’ of Science. It’s Getting Closer.

A Virtual Cell Is a ‘Holy Grail’ of Scie...

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  21

Large language models may unlock a new and valuable type of research.

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Latest The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows

The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  163

Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks t...

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Latest Why ‘Late Regime’ Presidencies Fail

Why ‘Late Regime’ Presidencies Fail

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  12

The coalition collapse that doomed Biden follows a grim precedent set by another Democratic leader: Jimmy Carter.

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Latest Parents Are Gaming Their Kids’ Credit Scores

Parents Are Gaming Their Kids’ Credit Sc...

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  11

Because of course they are.

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Latest The Solzhenitsyn Test

The Solzhenitsyn Test

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  7

Lying is a prerequisite for securing a Trump appointment.

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Latest Public Health Can’t Stop Making the Same Nutrition Mistake

Public Health Can’t Stop Making the Same...

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  4

Telling Americans what food is healthy doesn’t mean they will listen.

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Latest Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Coalition Starts to Fracture

Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Coalition Starts ...

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  5

The nativist right and Silicon Valley are already at war.

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