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The Year Inequality Became Less Visible, and More Visible Than Ever
Dec 29, 2020 | www.nytimes.com
Even as shared public spaces emptied out, the gap between the economically privileged and the precarious became impossible to ignore.
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An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn’t Want It.
Dec 26, 2020 | www.nytimes.com
Bryan Fogel’s examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies that can be premier platforms for documentary films.
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Best Data Visualization Projects of 2020
Dec 24, 2020 | FlowingData
It’s been a year. We saw a lot of charts. These are the best ones.
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Why the Flynn Pardon Matters
Dec 20, 2020 | Lawfare
It is a harbinger of things to come, and it completes a disturbing fact pattern in which the president used his office’s powers to obstruct justice.
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The Marvelfication Of Star Wars Has Officially Begun
Dec 19, 2020 | ScreenCrush
The next wave of Star Wars is going to look a lot like the MCU.
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Why Should Practitioners Care About Martial Arts History?
Dec 16, 2020 | martialhistoryteam.blogspot.com
Why should practitioners care about martial arts history? Introduction To answer this question, I'd like to divide martial arts practition...
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2020 was not a good year for learning | CSS-Tricks
Dec 10, 2020 | CSS-Tricks
There, I said it. What did I learn about building websites in 2020? A lot. But what I learned is not nearly as important as how I learned it. So instead,
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Our Towns: How to Reconnect Rural and Urban America
Dec 09, 2020 | The Atlantic
Joe Biden's administration will need to blunt differences and open more opportunities.
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‘This Must Be Your First’
Dec 08, 2020 | The Atlantic
Acting as if Trump is trying to stage a coup is the best way to ensure he won’t.
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Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Is Dead at 97
Dec 08, 2020 | www.nytimes.com
A World War II fighter ace and Air Force general, he was, according to Tom Wolfe, “the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff.”
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In The Grim Darkness Of The Cinema, There Is Only World War II
Dec 07, 2020 | athertonkd.substack.com
On Star Wars, War Tropes, and what it means to forever be in the cinematic shadow of the One Good War
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Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
Nov 27, 2020 | www.nytimes.com
The people in this story may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter or Tinder. But they don’t exist. They were born from the mind of a computer, and the technology behind them is improving at a startling pace.
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Two paths forward for the American press - PressThink
Nov 18, 2020 | PressThink
Restoration of the old order. Or continue with the democratic breakthrough that unfolded on November 5th.
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The people who broke local journalism can’t be the ones to save it (opinion)
Nov 12, 2020 | The Mendocino Voice
In which the authors describe the state of modern local journalism, and what can be done about it.
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Dave Grohl, 10-Year-Old Nandi Bushell and One Very Epic Drum Battle
Nov 11, 2020 | www.nytimes.com
The Foo Fighters leader and the English prodigy struck up a competitive friendship on social media that has brought them, and thousands of music fans, immense joy.
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Biden Won — Pretty Convincingly In The End
Nov 07, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
Even if you knew in advance about the “blue shift” that would occur in states like Pennsylvania — and we did know in advance about it! — it’s been hard to mak…
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