How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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America will sacrifice anything for the college experience
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How to interpret news about vaccine trials
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Last exit from autocracy
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Wild pigs are running rampant—and doing billions of dollars of damage each year
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K: The overlooked variable that's driving the pandemic
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What Jim Crow taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Nazi regime were fascinated by the global leader in codified race law — the United States
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The NASA team that kills spacecraft
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The supply of disinformation will soon be infinite: Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort to be effective, but now artificial intelligence could take them to a whole new level
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Why the orange sky looks gray in some photos
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Academics are really, really worried about their freedom
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The path to autocracy; A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary
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Can child dolls keep pedophiles from offending? One man thinks so, and he’s been manufacturing them for clients for more than ten years.
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Europe's young not so woke? Generational divisions in European countries seem less pronounced and young people seem to be less consistently aligned with the left than expected
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The value of extended families
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How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history
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How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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Seeing around corners
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The workforce is about to change dramatically
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Immunology is where intuition goes to die
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A newsroom at the edge of autocracy; The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows
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Biden goes big without sounding like it
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Beware of Facts Man
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On mob justice in Nigeria
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Donald Trump is putting on a show in Portland; the president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered
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The United States needs a third Reconstruction; whatever its shape, the era ahead must rekindle the aspiration of a nation molded in the ideal of perfect equality that we have always seeked
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The anti-semitism we didn’t see: DeSean Jackson’s Hitler moment—and mine—showed that Black Americans’ experience of racism doesn’t automatically sensitize us toward other forms of prejudice
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The dehumanizing condescension of the book White Fragility
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A second coronavirus death surge is coming
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The last giraffes on earth - The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think
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The time Bernie Sanders almost ran against Barack Obama, explained
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Do Americans understand how badly they’re doing?
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People complain that going to the shore is a careless act during a pandemic, but the science so far suggests otherwise
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Imagine if the National Transportation Safety Board investigated America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic
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The girl who turned to bone
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Three stories of people fired after being accused of racism
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The NFL is suddenly worried about Black lives
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My Little Pony fans are ready to admit they have a Nazi problem
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The obscure US Supreme Court case that could be used by the Republican Party to gut the First Amendment
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The social codes of the crazy rich
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Reddit is finally facing its legacy of racism
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How Donald Trump corrupts everyone around him; For most of Trump’s aides, the only good move is not to play
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Protests and policing will worsen the coronavirus pandemic - The US has moved from attempting to beat the virus to managing the harm of losing
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The search for the world’s simplest animal: For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely
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Why Republican senators do not challenge Trump
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The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on
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Former US Secretary of Defence James Mattis denounces President Trump, describes him as a threat to the Constitution
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How to actually fix America’s police
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Trump's "law and order" rhetoric won't help him like Nixon in 1968
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