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With sharp prose, Zadie Smith demonstrates why essays matter: They offer the writer a framework to challenge conformity in thought, writes @jacobinoire.
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Now AI is poised to wipe out skilled workers in the real estate industry in an extinction-level event.
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Lula has announced impressive progress in reducing deforestation while also pushing forward a number of projects that would open up the Amazon to extractivism.
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It's a wrap! The case against the Sandwich Guy crumbles. @lehmannchris explains how the the hoagie-throwing icon provides some surprisingly useful lessons in how to mount anti-Trump protests.
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The viral video of Sandwich Guy was a welcome and entertaining documentation of what was really happening in DC: A corps of federal agents cosplaying as righteous peacekeepers was menacing residents for no good reason, writes @lehmannchris.
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Arundhati Roy’s meteoric rise coincided with a pair of portentous, twinned events in 1998 that would cast a shadow over India for the next two and a half decades: the rise of the BJP and India's nuclear armament.
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"I always try to remind myself of human limits—not to be a downer or negative, but because it’s the truth. Societies can’t be perfect. You will die. Everyone ages. These are simple ideas, and they shouldn’t even be unusual to say." -Zadie Smith
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Public health used to be a place for warriors who wanted to upend the system, not just try to make it a little less cruel.
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With Zohran Mamdani's victory, US socialists are about to take power on a scale unseen in living memory. Now, they have to use that power well—or be crushed by the ruling class.
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If there’s one clear lesson we can draw from this history, it’s that we need to reimagine the particular form of private property that underpins urban life in the United States.
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“India, as Arundhati Roy saw it, was both every bit the place my mother and father had left decades before, yet also unalterably transformed.”
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The case against Sandwich Guy was baloney, but @lehmannchrisexplains how it provides some surprisingly useful lessons in how to mount protests that deflate the Mussolini-style self-regard of the MAGA power elite.
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AI services have infiltrated real estate for the same reason they have infiltrated every other creative industry: to undercut or eliminate the work of skilled laborers.
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"Tuesday’s results bolster an already-clear truth: trans people’s inclusion in the Democratic tent is not the cause of the party’s woes. Nor will throwing us overboard alleviate them," writes @GBBranstetter.
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In "Sentimental Value," the Norwegian filmmaker’s most ambitious work, he examines the porous boundary between art and life.
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In "Mother Mary Comes to Me," the icon of Indian letters revisits the time that forged her as a writer.
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Nancy Pelosi’s combination of solid liberal values and unrivaled legislative skill meant she got more meaningful progressive legislation passed than any Democrat since Lyndon Johnson.
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I was one of the senator’s most dedicated campaign staff—until I saw a side of him that made me sick.
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"Woody Allen’s endorsement of Cuomo forced me to wonder, how well does Woody Allen actually understand New York? Does the director actually understand the place rather than the fiction?"
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Forest clearance in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen by 50 percent over the three years of Lula’s third term in office, but Lula’s government has also approved oil and gas exploration licenses off the Amazon coast.
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