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Mark Milley’s Fight to Stop Trump from Striking Iran
Jul 18, 2021 | The New Yorker
Inside the extraordinary final-days conflict between the former President and his chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
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Black Widow happened at the only time Marvel was capable of making it
Jul 16, 2021 | Polygon
What happens when your first superheroine is actually a reformed supervillain
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Journalism is becoming a dangerous occupation
Jul 16, 2021 | Media Nation
Paul Farhi of The Washington Post reports on a disturbing phenomenon: television journalists coming under attack. “In recent months, local TV news crews have faced verbal and physical abuse w…
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Covid Didn’t Kill Cities. Why Was That Prophecy So Alluring?
Jul 12, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
A distrust of urban life has persisted in America, finding expression in different ways over time.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones declines UNC tenure offer, heads to Howard University
Jul 06, 2021 | www.ncpolicywatch.com
Roger Federer’s Gift to Tennis: A Shot That Players Love to Hit
Jul 04, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
The squash shot may be a last-resort play, but it’s fun to unleash and spectacular to watch. Federer made it his own, but many other players, especially women, are adopting it.
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Underpaid firefighters, overstretched budgets: The U.S. isn’t prepared for fires fueled by climate change
Jul 04, 2021 | Washington Post
Fire experts say the escalation of wildfires, fueled by climate change, demands an equally dramatic transformation in the nation’s response.
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Bedrock: The SQLitening · Mozilla Marketing Engineering & Operations
Jul 03, 2021 | mozilla.github.io
Why does it cost so much to build things in America?
Jul 03, 2021 | Vox
This is why the US can’t have nice things.
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Still Flowing at 14
Jun 30, 2021 | FlowingData
FlowingData turned 14 years old last week. Is that old? It feels old. The site started as a sandbox to put class projects. Flat HTML files. JPEG files. Google Maps placemarkers. Flash. Vanilla Java…
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A Few Tennis Pros Make a Fortune. Most Barely Scrape By.
Jun 29, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
The superstars of pro tennis get paid staggeringly more than everyone else. Can a new players’ association help level the court?
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Perspective | Why it’s so important that UNC trustees give Nikole Hannah-Jones the tenure she deserves
Jun 29, 2021 | Washington Post
It’s not always easy to make the right decision when you find yourself in the middle of a culture war.
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Opinion | Ken Burns is an optimist. But he’s very worried about America.
Jun 28, 2021 | Washington Post
The documentarian wants us to rediscover the delights of humbling ourselves before the past — and the courage to engage with our national failures honestly.
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Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife
Jun 27, 2021 | Blood Knife
The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.
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Alden Global Capital and Tribune’s board are dancing at the edge of the law
Jun 25, 2021 | Nieman Lab
Tribune board members acted in their own interests, not their newspaper chain’s, while Alden failed to disclose a secret investor meeting and misrepresented its cash position.
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How to run a small social network site for your friends
Jun 22, 2021 | runyourown.social
This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.
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Lockdown was not a sabbatical
Jun 22, 2021 | Vox
Don’t worry if you haven’t grown as a person during the pandemic.
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Does the Air Fryer Deliver on Its Golden Promise? (Published 2019)
Jun 21, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
Melissa Clark cooks with an air fryer, the kitchen appliance of the moment, to see if it really provides deep-fried taste without the fat.
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