Month: July 2022
July 21, 2022
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Alan Dershowitz’s Martha’s Vineyard Cancellation
“Alan Dershowitz became one of the most famous lawyers in America by representing high-profile clients such as Jeffrey Epstein, Mike Tyson, and O. J. Simpson,…”
July 19, 2022
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“Anne T. Donahue (right) with her mother Dee and father Rick circa 1994. (Anne T. Donahue) Cut to the Feeling is a monthly column by Anne T. Donahue about the…”
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The Final Moments of The Rehearsal Premiere Test Reality’s Limits
“K. Todd Freeman in The Rehearsal. Give him an Emmy! Photo: HBO Occasionally, it is necessary to convene a conversation between Vulture writers to discuss an…”
July 18, 2022
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“Care at Scale Bodies, agency, and infrastructure. Detail from 1889 Plan of the City of Toronto, Proposed Intercepting Sewers and Outfall. Image courtesy of City…”
July 17, 2022
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“Despite its title, this book is not about “the afterlife” as normally understood — the continuation of some form of personal existence after death, in the…”
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Nathan Fielder’s Dazzling, Horrifying Trial Run of Reality
“Kathryn VanArendonk is a critic who writes about TV and comedy. She gets mad when people say TV is a ten-hour movie. Fielder on The Rehearsal. Photo: Allyson…”
July 16, 2022
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“The M2 MacBook Air marks the second generation of Apple silicon Macs. But it still seems hard for us, collectively, to wrap our heads around the sea change…”
July 14, 2022
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How Jazz Was Declared Dead—Then Came Roaring Back to Life
“BACKGROUND: Back in the early 1990s, Sheldon Meyer of Oxford University Press asked me to write a full history of jazz, from its origins to the current day—a…”
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Perspective | What Josh Hawley doesn’t get in the discussion about ‘pregnant people’
“I spent much of the past calendar year as a pregnant woman. I wrote about being a pregnant woman many times in the pages of The Washington Post. Nobody ever…”
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New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
“ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. According to new data…”
July 13, 2022
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Joe Biden’s Dobbs Response Has Been Breathtakingly Awful
“Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images This weekend, the Washington Post published an article that chronicled the lumbering strategy of Joe Biden ’s…”
July 12, 2022
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“Well, here we go again. Once more, the ever-changing coronavirus behind COVID-19 is assaulting the United States in a new guise—BA.5, an offshoot of the Omicron…”
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“The Coldwater River flows along the destroyed Voght Street bridge in Merritt, B.C., in early June, seven months after catastrophic flooding covered the…”
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How Elon Musk Damaged Twitter and Left It Worse Off
“Mr. Musk swooped in and exposed Twitter’s lack of business and financial prospects. After criticizing the company’s weaknesses, he now wants to back out of…”
July 9, 2022
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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Finale: Co-Showrunner Explains Capt. Kirk’s Return
““I don’t think there’s any way to tell a ‘ Star Trek ’ story today without really knowing ‘Star Trek.’ That’s “ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ” co-showrunner…”
July 8, 2022
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Depression is complicated and our understanding of the condition has evolved over time
“Summary Depression is the most common mental health condition in the world, so understanding it has major consequences for a large number of people. But our…”
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“Brampton’s Mayor Patrick Brown announces that he is entering the race for the leadership of Canada’s Conservative Party on March 13. CARLOS OSORIO/Reuters…”
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Abe Shinzo or Shinzo Abe: What’s in a Name?
“Advertisement The recent resignation of Japan’s prime minister had an odd side effect: The raft of media coverage apparently triggered a pet peeve of Defense…”
July 7, 2022
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Netflix doesn’t want to hear it anymore
“This article is a collaboration between New York Magazine and The Verge . The sign that Netflix’s culture had irreversibly started to change came in the form of…”
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‘I Don’t Know How My Show Is Doing!’
“Illustration: María Jesús Contreras For decades, television creators had a pretty good way of finding out if their show was a hit: They could look at the…”
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Nathan Fielder Is Out of His Mind (and Inside Yours)
“Photo: Zachary Scott In 2009, when the comedian Nathan Fielder first moved to L.A., he learned to tell his managers not to send him to meetings. Why bother? If…”
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Is Human Intelligence Simple? Part 3: Disambiguating Types of Simplicity
“The Monstars are relevant, I promise. Steven Pinker and Scott Aaronson have a lovely debate about AI, hosted on Scott Aaronson’s blog , which turns out to be…”
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Star Trek’s ‘Strange New Worlds’: In defense of episodic TV
“Two generations after its 1966 debut, the universe of “Star Trek” has become a vast and sprawling mural in these heady days of streaming TV. There’s the dark…”
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Explosion Destroys Mysterious Monument in Georgia, Authorities Say
“For more than four decades, the Georgia Guidestones near Elberton Ga., have been an enigma. On Wednesday, the authorities said, “unknown individuals” destroyed…”
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“Barbara F. Walter, 57, is a political science professor at the University of California at San Diego and the author of “ How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop…”
July 6, 2022
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First Ukraine, then Moldova? Fears of conflict take hold in Transnistria
“The coat of arms of Transnistria greets visitors to Tiraspol, the self-declared capital of this breakaway region of Moldova. Photography by Janice Dickson/The…”
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Physics meets paleontology: The hotly debated mechanics of pterosaur flight
“Model flyers? Reconstructing possible flight from creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago is astounding in and of itself, but this ancient flight…”
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Opinion: Americans are more liberal and tolerant than ever. Too bad about their institutions
“U.S. Capitol Police watch as activists protest in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 29. Nathan Howard/Getty Images Please log in to…”
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One Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone. What Then?
“Shortly after I learned about Eliza, the program that asks people questions like a Rogerian psychoanalyst, I learned that I could run it in my favorite text…”
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A Crisis Historian Has Some Bad News for Us
“A merica and the world are living through what Adam Tooze, the internet’s foremost historian of money and disaster, describes as a “polycrisis.” As he sips a…”