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NSA hacked by Russia
Take a knee
Google critic ousted from think tank funded by Google
Why Houston is so susceptible to devastating floods (written a year ago)
Why Trump can’t quit the alt right
Fake news, Qatar, and a Middle East crisis
How did Labour do it?
Kabul, city of the dead
Aleppo after the fall
Why is the Labour Party such a mess?
Massive global ransomware attack strikes healthcare providers
Trumpcare: a moral disgrace
What is to be done in Venezuela?
New Orleans takes down three Confederate monuments
Bye-Bye, Bill O’Reilly
Justin Trudeau’s terrible environmental policies
Turkey’s leader claims vast new powers
N+1 on the Syria catastrophe
What’s really behind North Korea’s nuclear provocations
Donald Trump’s worst deal
How Trump could build an autocracy
Julian Assange’s endgame
Obama’s speeches
The devastating transformation of work in the US
Meanwhile, three weeks ago in Mosul…
David Hume, Buddha, and a midlife crisis
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize for literature
Why do we feel so guilty all the time?
Free falling with Tom Petty
The ‘creative class’ were just the rich all along
When the Harlem Renaissance went to Moscow
It Zucks!: Facebook is frightening
The secret lessons of Soviet children’s poems
A defense of cultural appropriation
The ethereal genius of jazz pianist Craig Taborn
The hidden treasures inside Italian libraries
Syria: stories from the barrel of a cannon
Literature’s obsession with the ends of the earth
Seeing art — by wheelchair
It’s hard work being popular in the age of social media
A personal view of Andrew Wyeth
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on La La Land
Two new books on Orwell
Sartre v. Camus
Reuniting two halves of a long-lost Alexandre Dumas novel
RIP John Berger
Children of Men: Revisiting Alfonso Cuaron’s 2006 dystopian masterpiece
How the medium became the message and McLuhan became a messiah
Art for sale — on your cruise ship
The limits of forgiveness
E-commerce warehouses provide jobs for postindustrial America
Digital rights management defines the age, but where did they come from?
The Bronx’s quiet battle with heroin
Some cities are too expensive even for the homeless
Meet the people who hijacked your brain
Glenn Greenwald: Endless war and Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign
The resegregation of American schools
Math vs. Democracy: Gerrymandering in the age of computer modeling
Conor McGregor’s Dublin
Profits ahead of patients: America’s troubled health care system
The lonely road to tennis glory
Climate change in U.S. will hit southern states and poorer areas hardest
Has the Southern Poverty Law Center lost its way in the Trump era?
Israel’s irrational rationality and the Palestinian occupation
Hoarding the American Dream: It’s not just the top 1 percent
Bleecker Street, from hip to high-end to blighted
My family’s slave
The terror news cycle
Homeless in Portland
The growing darkness in Syria’s cities, as seen from space
Olathe, Kansas after the shooting
What happens when technology renders jobs obsolete?
Crime and punishment in black America
How Hollywood remembers Steve Bannon
A history of Russian hacking
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