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Macron’s True Color Is Blue
After 51 days of political limbo, the proverbial white smoke finally rose from the Élysée Palace. The appointment of right-wing stalwart Michel Barnier as...
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About That Trump Assassination Conspiracy Theory
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack.
I find the rise of BlueMAGA very disturbing, and I’m surprised more people don’t. Or perhaps I’m...
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Will Harris ‘Go to China’ on Criminal Justice?
It has come to the most dangerous part of the campaign season, when it seems like better things are possible. But if hope can...
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Mpox Offers Another Chance to Confront Vaccine Inequity
On Aug. 14, the World Health Organization named mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years. When the first declaration was issued in 2022,...
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The Cruel but Not Unusual Treatment of the Unhoused
In 2019, a group of homeless folks were living on a deserted piece of land along the Chehalis River, a drainage basin that empties...
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60 Years After Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy” Campaign Ad
One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the Movies” on...
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Will the Post-DNC Pivot on Palestine Hurt Harris?
The Democratic Party is sending a clear message to advocates for Palestine — whether or not you get in line, we don’t need you....
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Ban Assault Weapons To End School Shootings
School shootings are recurring markers of a societal sickness, an unshakeable acceptance of violence and senseless death. The murder of two 14-year-old students and...
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WSJ Wants Judiciary Shielded From Scrutiny
A New York Times investigation (9/15/24) has given us great insight into Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who—unlike the president...
Gambling study says £2.7bn bet annually on hidden-market websites
Gamblers in Great Britain are betting £2.7bn a year through hidden-market websites, according to a lobby group that claims...
Prada and Max Mara bring strangeness and science to Milan fashion week
A Prada show is never a straightforward beauty pageant, so when the co-designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons go...
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Jennifer Aniston’s Ex Justin Theroux Wishes Her Happy Birthday on Instagram
What was expected of her was the same thing...