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Weaponizing the First Amendment

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How Devin Nunes turned the U.S. House Intelligence Committee inside out

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James Risen on his battles with his own editors at The New York Times on intelligence reporting

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The lessons for Democrats of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama

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Flynn pleads guilty

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The great Saudi shakeup

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After indictments handed out, a guide to the Trump-Russia timeline

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Saudi Arabia becomes the first nation to grant citizenship to a robot

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The Trump resistance so far

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NSA hacked by Russia

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Take a knee

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Google critic ousted from think tank funded by Google

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Why Houston is so susceptible to devastating floods (written a year ago)

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Why Trump can’t quit the alt right

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Fake news, Qatar, and a Middle East crisis

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How did Labour do it?

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Kabul, city of the dead

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Aleppo after the fall

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Why is the Labour Party such a mess?

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Massive global ransomware attack strikes healthcare providers

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Trumpcare: a moral disgrace

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What is to be done in Venezuela?

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New Orleans takes down three Confederate monuments

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Bye-Bye, Bill O’Reilly

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Justin Trudeau’s terrible environmental policies

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Kafka’s trial

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Erotic art in the ‘me-too’ era

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How to turn a meme into a star

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Can women be great chefs?

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The great literary Ulysses battle and the missing Joyce scholar

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Sylvia Plath’s magic mirror

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The Carolinas’ hibachi craze

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Cinema 1968

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Danish writer Johan Harstad on designing his own book covers

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Women writing about men writing about women

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Beautiful/Anonymous

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Female fantasies of violence

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The alien richness of Kate Braverman’s short fiction

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Black Panther film greeted warmly by Hollywood

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The terrible poetry of the famous new Instagram/YouTube so-called poets

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Martin Luther: legend and fact in the Reformation

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Norman Lear at 95

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What do we do with the art of monstrous men?

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Quelle horreur! Ou est tout le beurre?

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The sadness of Daniel Johnston’s (last?) tour

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David Hume, Buddha, and a midlife crisis

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Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize for literature

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Why do we feel so guilty all the time?

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Free falling with Tom Petty

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The ‘creative class’ were just the rich all along

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The decade we lost the earth

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Arizona’s water wars

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The science of sleep

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Jedediah Purdy: The remaking of class in America

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Why can’t the U.S. build a WWI memorial?

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Selling a cure for pain

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Seattle’s techies take on the city’s housing crunch

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Maraschino cherries, red bees, and marijuana in Red Hook

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Grasshoppers at Safeco Field

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Democracy’s retreat in eastern Europe

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New Mexico’s derelict spaceport

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Companies are scouring your phone for clues about your health

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Just 3% of Americans own half the nation’s guns

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How engineers sank New Orleans

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Even Scandinavia is no utopia for working mothers

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San Franciso’s tourist industry struggles to explain homeless problem to horrified visitors

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Bye-bye, bananas?

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The long journey to recover dead climbers’ bodies on Everest

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Is the NFL failing?

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A crisis of attention

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The inflated promise of the American food hall

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Former Time magazine editor bemoans the Koch brothers takeover

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Cosmic rays reveal void in Great Pyramid

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The Ordeal of Appalachia

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The improbable resurrection of D&D

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