How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’
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When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
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Whataboutism
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Studies on Slack
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The coronavirus killed American exceptionalism
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2020 Spring Three-Episode Check-In
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Typesetting Markdown - Part 8
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Why do so few people major in computer science?
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The Amish health care system
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