Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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The reluctant prophet of effective altruism: William MacAskill's movement set out to help global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway AI. Have they seen our threats clearly, or lost their way?
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How politics poisoned the Evangelical church
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Absolute power
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David Graeber’s Possible Worlds
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American unreality - In breaking the link between politics and objective truth, the United States seeks to fashion a new world – but it is one built on shifting sands
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Human history gets a rewrite
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What happens when the experience of celebrity becomes universal?
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He taught a Ta-Nehisi Coates essay. Then he was fired.
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What we still don't know about Emmett Till's murder
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Our need to get drunk in company may be innate
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Philosophy has made plenty of progress
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How much should we trust technology?
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Why Confederate lies live on
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What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed
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Why Confederate lies live on
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Lincoln's great depression
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For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage
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New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters
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Disney brought its streaming service to Iceland last year – the country's education minister has sent a letter of complaint over the lack of Icelandic dubbing and subtitling
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Napoleon’s brother lived in New Jersey. Here’s what happened to the estate.
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Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite
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A sea story
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How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month
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Is computer code a foreign language?
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Atheists are sometimes more religious than Christians
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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The next decade could be even worse: A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.
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Pope Francis appoints first African-American cardinal
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Last exit from autocracy
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Nobels that some felt weren't so dynamite (1999)
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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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Why are we in the West so weird? A theory
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Academics are really, really worried about their freedom
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Confessions of a former bastard cop
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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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What is MasterClass actually selling?
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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Hiroshima (1946)
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Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away
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The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime
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Is there still room for debate?
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The still-vital case for liberalism in a radical age
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How the coronavirus compares with 100 years of deadly events
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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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President? Why not? Says a man at the top.
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler
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How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America
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