The death of consensus: How conflict came back to politics
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No, I will not debate you
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The reclusive hedge-fund tycoon behind the Trump presidency
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How Puerto Rico Became the Newest Tax Haven for the Super Rich
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The European Union versus the Internet
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‘Would that all journeys were on foot’: writers on the joy of walking. Will Self, Fran Lebowitz, Helen Garner and others share their love letters to urban pedestrianism
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"What does anger mean for the immigrant?" - What we're talking about when we talk about "political correctness", inclusion, and social justice, Part 1
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“I now know what it’s like to have A 110-story building come down on my head.”
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Riot Games says it wants to clean up its mess, but the people who made it are still there
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Things Fall Apart (Part 2)
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The country's first climate change casualties? Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within twenty-five years
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Americans want to believe jobs are the solution to poverty. They’re not
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Americans want to believe jobs are the solution to poverty. They’re not.
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Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy?
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What does it mean to die well?
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The ugly history of beautiful things: Perfume
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Forging Islamic science
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Amazon’s US antitrust antagonist has a breakthrough idea
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The future abortionists of America
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The graphing calculator story
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The water crises aren’t coming—they’re here
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Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting
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Who controls your data? Nine reporters in London, Paris, New York & San Francisco filed more than 150 requests for personal data to 30+ popular tech companies
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Blood and oil
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Why did America give up on mass transit? (Don't blame cars).
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"The Social Ideology of the Motorcar" by André Gorz, 1973
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The other political correctness: America's elite universities are censoring themselves on China
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How BoJack Horseman got made - An oral history of TV’s favorite alcoholic, narcissistic, self-destructive talking horse
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"Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer
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The roots of cooking for the sick and why hospital food is so bad
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Genoa Bridge collapse: The road to tragedy
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The misremembering of McGwire-Sosa: Nobody cared that Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were using, right up until they did.
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How to change the course of human history
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Fitbit's 150 billion hours of heart data reveal secrets about health
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Meet the table busser who’s worked at the same pancake house for fifty-four years and still makes minimum wage
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The new old age - Longevity is now our reality. Are we ready for it?
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Considerations on cost disease
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The FBI used the #MeToo movement to pressure an environmental activist into becoming an informant
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The mystery of people who speak dozens of languages
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What is cyberpunk? A brief history of the near future.
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Ethan Hawke is still taking Ethan Hawke extremely seriously
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The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that never was
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What happens when your bomb-defusing robot becomes a weapon
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Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
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Even before electricity, robots freaked people out
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Revisiting a 1958 map of space mysteries
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The State of the Bestiary is Stable - 25 years after release, Magic: The Gathering still strikes a balance between performance and commodity—a mix of chess’s chilly purity and poker’s social theatre
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The great Chinese art heist
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The humanities are in crisis - Students are abandoning humanities majors, turning to degrees they think yield far better job prospects. But they’re wrong.
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How baseball’s tech team built the future of television
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