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Humor, Cartoons, and Short Takes on, Daily Cartoon Wednesday July 1st, and more.
Humor, Cartoons, and Short Takes on American Life this week: Visual commentary on current affairs suggests underlying narrative tensions; and The New Yorker’s July 3rd Daily Cartoon bundle offers a mix of humor and cultural commentary…
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American Culture, Celebrity, and the, How Lizzo Became One Pop Culture s Great, and more.
American Culture, Celebrity, and the Arts this week: Lizzo’s fifth studio album, Bitch, sold just 2,650 copies in its first week and missed the Billboard 200 entirely, a; and The New Yorker’s 250th-anniversary issue asks sixteen writers…
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Trump, the Supreme Court, and the, Donald Trump Celebrates America, and more.
Trump, the Supreme Court, and the Future of American Politics this week: The New Yorker reports on the transformation of America’s 250th anniversary into a Trump-branded spectacle, with the; and The Atlantic’s analysis of Trump’s July 4…
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Curiosities and Recommendations, This Illinois Tower Was, and more.
Curiosities and Recommendations this week: A retired couple in Windsor, Illinois, built a 31-foot-tall brick ‘goat tower’—a spiral-ramped structure for Alpine; and Freakonomics Radio’s latest episode bundle examines a series of seemingly…
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Culture, Arts, and Entertainment, Couture Reviewed Angelina Jolie, and more.
Culture, Arts, and Entertainment this week: The New Yorker reviews ‘Couture,’ a 2026 drama set in the Parisian fashion world starring Angelina Jolie; and In a New Yorker interview, Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai frames his literary…
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Politics and Power in America, Can J D Vance Serve Both God Donald, and more.
Politics and Power in America this week: The New Yorker profiles Vice-President J.D.
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Labour’s poisonous puppet master and a £1million cover-up: The 1,500 new pages are a sea of
The release of 1,500 pages of documents, known as the Mandelson Files, has exposed the toxic infighting and back-biting at the heart of the Labour government, with Peter Mandelson revealed as a key puppet master…
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The Brilliant Mr. Feynman (Update)
Freakonomics Radio’s latest bundle, ‘Local Radar,’ surfaces disparate but telling local phenomena: Vanderbilt’s president operationalizes a ‘magnets over wedges’ strategy for institutional resilience; Columbia…
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Investigations into corporations, We are bombarding America s forests Roundup, and more.
Investigations into corporations, chemicals, and public risk this week: An investigative report reveals that glyphosate, the herbicide in Roundup, is being sprayed at record levels in US; and The Modern Ag Alliance, presented as a…
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Deep-dive essays and reported features, Last Nation Play Marshall, and more.
Deep-dive essays and reported features this week: The Marshall Islands men’s national soccer team, formed from a global diaspora and players with tenuous roots to the; and Public intellectuals leveraging personal tragedy for narrative…