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Vivien Chang
The Real Lives of Online Romance Scammers
Carlos Barragán’s reporting on young men in Nigeria who defrauded women over the internet illuminates a grim world of poverty and loneliness.
Among the exhibits in The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music is a wall of album covers ranging from Nat King Cole to the Beastie Boys.
Michael Tomasky
The Springsteen Museum’s Modest, Big-Hearted Vision of America
The new center displays the Boss’s “Born to Run” Telecaster, hand-written lyrics, and more. But it also tells a much longer and bigger story about American music.
Erik Linstrum
Was a French Aristocrat the First Fascist?
A portrait of the Marquis de Morès
Erik Linstrum
Was a French Aristocrat the First Fascist?
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A black and white photo of Jacques Derrida looking over his shoulder, photographed in Ris-Orangis, France, in 1988
The Case for Sticking With French Theory
Briallen Hopper
A black and white photo of Jacques Derrida looking over his shoulder, photographed in Ris-Orangis, France, in 1988
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The Case for Sticking With French Theory
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Did Howard Zinn Tell Too Simple a Story About American History?
Patrick Iber
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Did Howard Zinn Tell Too Simple a Story About American History?
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An illustration of the activist Howard Zinn building the frame of a wall that resembles an American flag; with the square window frame using blue wood, and the wall frame using red wood.
Did Howard Zinn Tell Too Simple a Story About American History?
Patrick Iber
An illustration of the activist Howard Zinn building the frame of a wall that resembles an American flag; with the square window frame using blue wood, and the wall frame using red wood.
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Did Howard Zinn Tell Too Simple a Story About American History?
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Adopt AI or Die?
Jacob Bacharach
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Adopt AI or Die?
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An illustration of a young man stands before a fork in the road that diverges into two possible consequential paths for the future of our species with technology: on the left, the road to AI hell and sci-fi dystopia; and on the right, the hopeful utopian future of AI abundance and global cooperation.
Adopt AI or Die?
Jacob Bacharach
An illustration of a young man stands before a fork in the road that diverges into two possible consequential paths for the future of our species with technology: on the left, the road to AI hell and sci-fi dystopia; and on the right, the hopeful utopian future of AI abundance and global cooperation.
MagazineJacob Bacharach
Adopt AI or Die?
A steamroller with the front roller depicted as a roll of $100 bills
MagazineTimothy Noah
Why Does the World Put Up With the Dollar?
The global economy depends on the U.S. dollar, even when the U.S. acts erratically.
An episodic image from the Camp Miasma movie showing actresses Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder with blood on their clothes while standing in a grocery store aisle.
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Jane Schoenbrun’s Love Letter to Teen Horror
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is gently eerie and filled with longing.
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