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‘The system worked as designed’ is bad news
Feb 10, 2021 | Defense News
Let's take a look at timeline of the Army’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It's not pretty.
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Analysis | Republicans came within 90,000 votes of controlling all of Washington
Feb 09, 2021 | Washington Post
While the GOP lost the presidential race and control of the Senate, we very nearly had a much different outcome.
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17 Cooking Tips Our Food Staff Swears By
Feb 05, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
The reporters and editors behind NYT Cooking share the advice that changed their home cooking.
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Analysis & updates | It’s Time: The COVID Tracking Project Will Soon Come to an End
Feb 01, 2021 | The COVID Tracking Project
Personal search engine with datasette and dogsheep
Jan 28, 2021 | talkpython.fm
In this episode, we'll be discussing two powerful tools for data reporting and exploration: Datasette and Dogsheep. Datasette helps people take data of any shape or size, analyze and explore it, and publish it as an interactive website and...
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Béla Fleck’s Journey To Find Truth In Origins Of The Banjo
Jan 27, 2021 | www.wbur.org
In 2005, Béla Fleck went to Africa to explore the origins of the banjo. He toured through Uganda, Tanzania, Gambia and Mali, jamming with local musicians.
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You can now ask the Globe to remove an embarrassing story about you from Google search
Jan 22, 2021 | Media Nation
There’s a difference between rewriting history and making some of it more difficult to find. Which is why I think The Boston Globe is doing the right thing with its “Fresh Start” …
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This Boston mayor’s race will be like no other - The Boston Globe
Jan 18, 2021 | BostonGlobe.com
Get ready for a mayor’s race like nothing Boston has ever seen. Given the likely field of contenders, this could be a real break.
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Opinion | Keep Trump in ‘Home Alone 2.’ It’s an important historical document.
Jan 16, 2021 | Washington Post
We should draw a line between acts that meaningfully diminish the power of the soon-to-be ex-president and emotional gestures that end up obscuring his rise or his conduct in office.
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Exit Interviews: Aaron Williams
Jan 15, 2021 | source.opennews.org
"There’s a reason why when you think about what a 'data journalist' looks like, you don’t think of someone who looks like me."
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The Life in 'The Simpsons' Is No Longer Attainable
Jan 13, 2021 | The Atlantic
The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence.
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AITA for ghosting Frodo and all of Hobbiton?
Jan 13, 2021 | Polygon
Polygon readers, weigh in
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Weekly Health Update from the Principal of Cobra Kai’s West Valley High School
Jan 12, 2021 | McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Good morning, Mountain Lions, This is your principal speaking, with your weekly West Valley High COVID-19 health update. First of all, I want to th...
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Telling it like it is: When writing news requires a distance from neutrality - Poynter
Jan 12, 2021 | www.poynter.org
Opinion | Yes, It Was a Coup Attempt. Here’s Why.
Jan 12, 2021 | POLITICO
What Trump tried is called a “self-coup,” and he did it in slow motion and in plain sight.
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D.C. Residents Put Up With Overbearing Security for 20 Years. It Did Nothing.
Jan 09, 2021 | Slate Magazine
What was the point of Fortress D.C.?
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‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor
Jan 04, 2021 | Washington Post
In a recording obtained by The Washington Post, President Trump alternately berated, begged and threatened Brad Raffensperger to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state.
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Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery
Jan 01, 2021 | www.nytimes.com
It wasn’t just the Fed or the stimulus. The rise in savings among white-collar workers created a tide lifting nearly all financial assets.
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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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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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