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Latest How Do You Make a Genuinely Weird Mainstream Movie?

How Do You Make a Genuinely Weird Mainst...

Vidcon   May 3, 2024  0  53

Jane Schoenbrun, the director of the unsettling new film I Saw the TV Glow, has some ideas.

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Latest What Is Wagner Doing in Africa?

What Is Wagner Doing in Africa?

Vidcon   May 3, 2024  0  55

Russian mercenaries are wringing wealth and political leverage out of the Sahel.

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Latest When Writers Silence Writers

When Writers Silence Writers

Vidcon   May 3, 2024  0  48

PEN America and the authoritarian spirit

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Latest The Blindness of Elites

The Blindness of Elites

Vidcon   May 3, 2024  0  46

No one really knows what America looks like anymore. Walter Kirn wants to change that.

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Latest Photos of the Week: May Day, Campus Protests, Snake Festival

Photos of the Week: May Day, Campus Prot...

Vidcon   May 3, 2024  0  50

Devastating floods across Kenya, a Pagan fire festival in Scotland, antler gathering in Wyoming, pro-Palestinian demonstrations at...

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Latest What's Left to Restrain Donald Trump?

What's Left to Restrain Donald Trump?

Vidcon   May 3, 2024  0  52

If the former president really did order an assassination—as his lawyers argue he could—does anyone believe it would cost him his ...

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Latest A New Era in Weed Research

A New Era in Weed Research

Vidcon   May 3, 2024  0  43

Rescheduling marijuana could help make its health effects a whole lot clearer.

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Latest A Failure of Imagination About Trump

A Failure of Imagination About Trump

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  49

American minds are not ready to think about how fast democracy could disintegrate.

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Latest Milk Has Lost Its Magic

Milk Has Lost Its Magic

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  52

The bird-flu panic is getting out of hand.

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Latest Milk Can’t Catch a Break

Milk Can’t Catch a Break

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  46

The bird-flu panic has gotten out of control.

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Latest <em>Hacks </em>Goes for the Jugular

<em>Hacks </em>Goes for the Jugular

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  42

In its third season, the show faces the failures of late-night comedy head-on.

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Latest Biden’s Patience With Campus Protests Runs Out

Biden’s Patience With Campus Protests Ru...

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  57

Chaos in the streets—real, imagined, or exaggerated—is never to an incumbent’s advantage.

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Latest A Critic’s Case Against Cinema

A Critic’s Case Against Cinema

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  53

Sixty years ago, Pauline Kael said that the movies were going to pieces. In a sense, she was right.

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Latest Cancer Supertests Are Here

Cancer Supertests Are Here

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  63

But are they really such a good idea?

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Latest Trump’s Naps Are Actually Worrying

Trump’s Naps Are Actually Worrying

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  51

He can’t even seem to stay awake for his own trial.

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Latest The Blistering Power of an Overlooked Woman

The Blistering Power of an Overlooked Wo...

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  46

In its third season, Hacks faces the failures of late-night comedy head-on.

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Latest If Plants Could Talk

If Plants Could Talk

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  46

Some scientists are starting to reopen a provocative debate: Are plants intelligent?

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Latest You Can Test Your Blood for 50 Kinds of Cancer

You Can Test Your Blood for 50 Kinds of ...

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  69

But is that really such a good idea?

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Latest America’s Colleges Are Reaping What They Sowed

America’s Colleges Are Reaping What They...

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  47

Universities spent years saying that activism is not just welcome but encouraged on their campuses. Students took them at their wo...

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Latest The Botany Revolution

The Botany Revolution

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  49

Some scientists are starting to reopen a provocative debate: Are plants intelligent?

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Latest America’s IVF Failure

America’s IVF Failure

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  68

One out of every 50 babies born in the U.S. was conceived via IVF. Why is the industry so poorly regulated?

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Latest Why a Bit of Restraint Can Do You a Lot of Good

Why a Bit of Restraint Can Do You a Lot ...

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  46

An uninhibited quest for authenticity sounds great. But if that just means acting out, you’re unlikely to be so happy.

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Latest What If He Actually Did It?

What If He Actually Did It?

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  62

I argued that Jens Söring was wrongfully convicted of a double murder, and in 2019, he was released on parole after three decades ...

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Latest The Complicated Ethics of Rare-Book Collecting

The Complicated Ethics of Rare-Book Coll...

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  63

Literary treasures are too often hidden away from the public—but the world of private collecting isn’t all bad.

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Latest Colleges Love Protests—When They’re in the Past

Colleges Love Protests—When They’re in t...

Vidcon   May 2, 2024  0  47

Many of America’s universities are reaping what they sowed.

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Latest Every Tech Company Wants to Be Like Boston Dynamics

Every Tech Company Wants to Be Like Bost...

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  59

America’s favorite robot company has perfected the art of freaking people out.

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Latest The 1968 Hangover

The 1968 Hangover

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  48

Like Nixon before him, Trump could use campus protests to further stoke an already polarized electorate.

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Latest America Can’t Stop Watching Creepy Robot Videos

America Can’t Stop Watching Creepy Robot...

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  58

Boston Dynamics has perfected the art of freaking people out. Now other tech companies are trying to do the same.

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Latest Biden’s Electoral College Challenge

Biden’s Electoral College Challenge

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  48

How demographic change is scrambling the geography of the 2024 presidential race

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Latest <em>The Atlantic</em> Hires Ali Breland as Staff Writer Covering Extremism; Julie Beck, Ellen Cushing, and Matteo Wong Move to Staff Writers

<em>The Atlantic</em> Hires Ali Breland ...

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  44

The Atlantic is sharing news about four new staff writers: the hire of Ali Breland, most recently at Mother Jones, to report on di...

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Latest Charge Palestine With Genocide Too

Charge Palestine With Genocide Too

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  44

The case for having the International Court of Justice hear two cases at once

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Latest What Florida’s Abortion Ban Means Beyond Florida

What Florida’s Abortion Ban Means Beyond...

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  50

A new ban has providers there scrambling—and clinics in other states preparing for a crush of new patients.

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Latest The Mysteries of Plant ‘Intelligence’

The Mysteries of Plant ‘Intelligence’...

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  52

Scientists are debating whether concepts such as memory, consciousness, and communication can be applied beyond the animal kingdom...

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Latest The Diminishing Returns of Having Good Taste

The Diminishing Returns of Having Good T...

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  56

The internet makes most information instantly available. What if that’s why mass culture is so boring?

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Latest ‘We Want <em>All </em>of It’

‘We Want <em>All </em>of It’

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  59

The Columbia protesters backed themselves into a corner.

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Latest I Am Building an Archive to Prove That Palestine Exists

I Am Building an Archive to Prove That P...

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  47

For me and my family, this work is an act of hope.

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Latest Will Biden Have a Gaza Problem in November’s Poll?

Will Biden Have a Gaza Problem in Novemb...

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  54

Foreign policy does not usually swing national elections, but this time could be different.

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Latest The End of Cultural Arbitrage

The End of Cultural Arbitrage

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  47

The internet makes most information instantly available. What if that’s why mass culture is so boring?

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Latest When Poetry Could Define a Life

When Poetry Could Define a Life

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  66

The close passing of the poetry critics Marjorie Perloff and Helen Vendler is a moment to recognize the end of an era.

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Latest Democrats Defang the House’s Far Right

Democrats Defang the House’s Far Right

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  54

By pledging to support Mike Johnson, Democrats have freed the House from the grip of GOP hard-liners.

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Latest Is Iran a Country or a Cause?

Is Iran a Country or a Cause?

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  52

The ideologues are winning a decades-long battle over Tehran’s foreign policy.

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Latest The Danger of a Small Act of Cowardice

The Danger of a Small Act of Cowardice

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  49

I resigned from the Ford presidential foundation over its refusal to honor Liz Cheney. But my decision was bigger than that.

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Latest The Mysteries of Plant “Intelligence”

The Mysteries of Plant “Intelligence”...

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  46

Scientists are arguing about whether concepts like memory, consciousness, and communication can be applied beyond the animal kingd...

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Latest When Voters Care About Foreign Affairs

When Voters Care About Foreign Affairs

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  50

Generally they don’t. But for Biden, Gaza could make this election different.

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Latest The Columbia Protesters Backed Themselves Into a Corner

The Columbia Protesters Backed Themselve...

Vidcon   May 1, 2024  0  49

Maximalist rhetoric made the ultimate confrontation inevitable.

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