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Money laundering evident at collapsed Surfside condo building
Oct 14, 2021 | www.usatoday.com
Buried Treasure: Weeds, Seeds, and Zombies - Gastropod
Oct 14, 2021 | Gastropod
Listen in now for zombie seeds, a midnight treasure hunt, and the wild ways that weeds have outwitted us for millennia.
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Analysis | Timeline: Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 election
Oct 13, 2021 | Washington Post
All the major events, in one place.
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How to Build a Better Dinner (Published 2020)
Oct 03, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
To be a faster, more creative cook, take a cue from restaurant chefs, J. Kenji López-Alt suggests, and rely on culinary building blocks.
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Nobody Really Knows How the Economy Works. A Fed Paper Is the Latest Sign.
Oct 01, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
Many experts are rethinking longstanding core ideas, including the importance of inflation expectations.
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After Senate committee vote, Rachael Rollins is guaranteed to be in national conversation — on her terms - The Boston Globe
Oct 01, 2021 | BostonGlobe.com
When Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton set out to place Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins in the national spotlight, he probably wasn’t looking for ways to help Rollins advance her career or agenda.
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So which Two Towers are THE two towers? The answer’s maddening.
Oct 01, 2021 | Polygon
John Ronald Tolkien, we need to talk
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Is it Time for Journalism to Get Off Facebook?
Sep 30, 2021 | dicktofel.substack.com
What do you do if something is "like cigarettes"? If you can, you quit.
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'Car Talk' Ends Its Radio Run. Here's What Ray Magliozzi Hopes You'll Remember
Sep 25, 2021 | www.wbur.org
"Car Talk" launched as a local show on WBUR in 1977, with brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi behind the microphones. Now, the show will be released twice a week as a podcast, starting on Oct. 1. WBUR's Cityspace also will host an event on Nov. 4...
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Opinion | The World Is at War With Covid. Covid Is Winning.
Sep 22, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
The world can’t end this pandemic — or prevent the next one — without global vaccine equity.
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Perspective | For one Capitol reporter, Jan. 6 was the final straw — but he had watched a crisis brew for years
Sep 18, 2021 | Washington Post
Andrew Taylor of the Associated Press left his beat of 30 years, both traumatized and frustrated by journalism’s failure to cope with today’s dire politics.
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Old Boston versus New Boston: Annissa Essaibi George is not the future - The Boston Globe
Sep 17, 2021 | BostonGlobe.com
In a historically diverse mayoral election, Boston showed its lazy hand.
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‘Reversing Gears’: China Increasingly Rejects English, and the World
Sep 17, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
A movement against Western influence threatens to close off a nation that succeeded in part by welcoming new ideas.
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This map shows where the mayoral candidates got their support - The Boston Globe
Sep 16, 2021 | BostonGlobe.com
Where did City Councilors Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George get the most support in Tuesday’s preliminary? And where did the three other major candidates who fell short get their votes? These dots tell the story.
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Putin Is Quarantining. What Would Happen If He Died? - The Bulwark
Sep 15, 2021 | The Bulwark
Like most autocrats, he has no successor lined up.
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Opinion | The Question Michael K. Williams Asked Me Before Every Season of ‘The Wire’
Sep 13, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
As Omar Little, the actor bent his beautiful mind to a task that even the best writers and showrunners often avoid.
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Fleetwood Mac fired Lindsey Buckingham. So why won't he let them go?
Sep 12, 2021 | www.latimes.com
How to Talk to People, According to Terry Gross (Published 2018)
Sep 10, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
The NPR host offers eight spicy tips for having better conversations.
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