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Latest When the Flames Come for You

When the Flames Come for You

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  7

Our family’s flight from the L.A. fires brought the difference between vague preparedness and real emergency into shockingly sharp...

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Latest When Poets Face Death

When Poets Face Death

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  9

Their later works have a peculiar power.

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Latest You’re Going to Die. That’s a Good Thing.

You’re Going to Die. That’s a Good Thing...

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  27

If you can accept your mortality, you will feel more alive.

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Latest <em>September 5 </em>Captures a Crisis Becoming Must-Watch TV

<em>September 5 </em>Captures a Crisis B...

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  4

A harrowing moment transforms into a spectacle in this thrilling film.

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Latest Trump Doesn’t Believe Anything. That’s Why He Wins.

Trump Doesn’t Believe Anything. That’s W...

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  7

Transactionalism is Trump’s secret weapon.

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Latest Biden’s Tarnished Legacy

Biden’s Tarnished Legacy

Vidcon   Jan 10, 2025  0  8

He failed to grasp both the political moment and the essential mission of his presidency.

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Latest The Anti-Social Century

The Anti-Social Century

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  9

Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to ...

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Latest The Film That Rips the Hollywood Comeback Narrative Apart

The Film That Rips the Hollywood Comebac...

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  15

The Substance is one of several recent movies that scrutinize older female performers’ struggle to stay relevant.

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Latest Eat Less Beef. Eat More Ostrich?

Eat Less Beef. Eat More Ostrich?

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  17

Ostrich is touted as a more sustainable red meat that tastes just like beef.

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Latest Why Poor American Kids Are So Likely to Become Poor Adults

Why Poor American Kids Are So Likely to ...

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  6

Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the biggest ...

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Latest Photos: The Palisades Fire Scorches Parts of Los Angeles

Photos: The Palisades Fire Scorches Part...

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  9

Images from a destructive wildfire that erupted yesterday, driven by extreme winds and dry conditions

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Latest <em>The Atlantic</em>’s February Cover Story: Derek Thompson on “The Anti-Social Century”

<em>The Atlantic</em>’s February Cover S...

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  4

For The Atlantic’s February cover story, staff writer Derek Thompson explores “The Anti-Social Century”: why Americans are spendin...

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Latest How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 ...

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  5

He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

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Latest The Bizarre Brain of Werner Herzog

The Bizarre Brain of Werner Herzog

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  6

The Teutonic overthinker’s latest documentary reveals more about his strange mind than the brain writ large.

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Latest The Palisades Were Waiting to Burn

The Palisades Were Waiting to Burn

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  17

Fire becomes a year-round danger when Southern California is this dry.

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Latest The Particular Horror of the Los Angeles Wildfires

The Particular Horror of the Los Angeles...

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  8

Southern California is no stranger to fires. But the dreadful blazes that began yesterday are potentially transformative.

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Latest Stop the (North Carolina) Steal

Stop the (North Carolina) Steal

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  5

The Democratic incumbent got more votes. Now the Republican challenger is trying to throw out tens of thousands of them.

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Latest He’s No Elon Musk

He’s No Elon Musk

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  10

But Mark Zuckerberg sure is trying to be.

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Latest How Solitude Is Rewiring American Identity

How Solitude Is Rewiring American Identi...

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  4

A conversation with Derek Thompson on how social isolation is affecting both happiness and civic life

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Latest Fact-Checking Was Too Good for Facebook

Fact-Checking Was Too Good for Facebook

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  5

The social network has given up on verifying facts. That’s a good thing.

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Latest ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’

‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’...

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  6

The Palisades Fire is destroying places that I’ve loved.

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Latest The Payoff of TV’s Most Awaited Crossover

The Payoff of TV’s Most Awaited Crossove...

Vidcon   Jan 9, 2025  0  5

Abbott Elementary and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia don’t have much common ground. That’s why their collaboration felt fresh....

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Latest Welcome Back to the ‘Tough Times’ Era

Welcome Back to the ‘Tough Times’ Era...

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  29

At last night’s Golden Globes, nobody had much to say about the presidential election—or politics at all.

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Latest The Truth About NIMBYs

The Truth About NIMBYs

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  9

The political psychology of opposition to new housing

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Latest The Coming Assault on Birthright Citizenship

The Coming Assault on Birthright Citizen...

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  11

The Constitution is absolutely clear on this point, but will that matter?

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Latest The New Rasputins

The New Rasputins

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  11

Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

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Latest How Sherlock Holmes Broke Copyright Law

How Sherlock Holmes Broke Copyright Law

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  4

Adaptations of Holmes stories are exploding now that the detective is in the public domain. Critics believe it should have happene...

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Latest The Great Crypto Crash

The Great Crypto Crash

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  12

Trump will usher in a speculative frenzy.

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Latest Americans With Dementia Are Grieving Social Media

Americans With Dementia Are Grieving Soc...

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  11

With its visual interface and constant updates, the social web is a nightmare for people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of cogni...

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Latest Political Whiplash in the American Southwest

Political Whiplash in the American South...

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  3

A national monument gets squeezed and stretched and squeezed again.

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Latest My Phone-Call Anxiety Is Out of Control

My Phone-Call Anxiety Is Out of Control

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  7

I fear I’m on the road to serious isolation.

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Latest Trump Is Facing a Catastrophic Defeat in Ukraine

Trump Is Facing a Catastrophic Defeat in...

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  6

If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.

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Latest The Political Logic of Trump’s International Threats

The Political Logic of Trump’s Internati...

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  6

Renaming the Gulf of Mexico is a lot simpler than building the wall.

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Latest Judge Cannon Comes to Trump’s Aid, Again

Judge Cannon Comes to Trump’s Aid, Again...

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  12

The president-elect would rather Jack Smith’s report never sees the light of day. Luckily for him, he has an ally.

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Latest Foreign Leaders Face the Trump Test

Foreign Leaders Face the Trump Test

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  16

His approach to global relations is already putting leaders in a difficult position.

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Latest We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This

We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did...

Vidcon   Jan 8, 2025  0  14

Mark Zuckerberg is at war with himself.

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Latest The Golden Globes Got a Little Weird With It

The Golden Globes Got a Little Weird Wit...

Vidcon   Jan 7, 2025  0  22

The 2025 winners were all over the map, portending a wide-open awards season.

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Latest The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashin...

Vidcon   Jan 7, 2025  0  19

A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.

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Latest Don’t Mention the Coup!

Don’t Mention the Coup!

Vidcon   Jan 7, 2025  0  31

The memory of January 6 vanishes from Trump’s new Washington.

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Latest The Global Outrage Machine Skips the Uyghurs

The Global Outrage Machine Skips the Uyg...

Vidcon   Jan 7, 2025  0  14

China grandstands about Gaza while repressing a Muslim community within its own borders. Hardly anyone seems to notice.

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Latest You’ll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmill

You’ll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmil...

Vidcon   Jan 7, 2025  0  7

There’s no such thing as an easy weeknight meal.

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Latest Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth

Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happ...

Vidcon   Jan 7, 2025  0  10

Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.

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Latest Welcome to the Burning ’20s

Welcome to the Burning ’20s

Vidcon   Jan 7, 2025  0  18

America is in the middle of a decade of dangerous instability.

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Latest The Agony of Texting With Men

The Agony of Texting With Men

Vidcon   Jan 7, 2025  0  42

Many guys are bad at messaging their friends back—and it might be making them more lonely.

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Latest Welcome Back to the “Tough Times” Era

Welcome Back to the “Tough Times” Era...

Vidcon   Jan 7, 2025  0  9

At last night’s Golden Globes, nobody had much to say about the presidential election—or politics at all.

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