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I Work at a Furniture Store That Went to Hell Once Bain Capital Bought It

I Work at a Furniture Store That Went to Hell Once Bain Capital Bought It

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What the Lesbian Best Friend Trope Leaves Out

What the Lesbian Best Friend Trope Leaves Out

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María Jesús Contreras

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China’s Information Dark Age Could Be Russia’s Future

China’s Information Dark Age Could Be Russia’s Future

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How Do You Make the Perfect Toy?

How Do You Make the Perfect Toy?

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Hudson Christie

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Tune out stress with these 3 sound therapy spots in Atlanta

Tune out stress with these 3 sound therapy spots in Atlanta

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Tomasz Wozniakowski

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Atlanta Magazine

We Need To Talk About The Carbon Footprints Of The Rich

We Need To Talk About The Carbon Footprints Of The Rich

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The grid is under attack

The grid is under attack

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The secret to great sex? It’s not what you think …

The secret to great sex? It’s not what you think …

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Why Bugs Are The High-Protein And Fiber-Rich Food You Should Be Eating

Why Bugs Are The High-Protein And Fiber-Rich Food You Should Be Eating

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How Cash-Needy Private Companies Are Avoiding Dreaded Down Rounds

How Cash-Needy Private Companies Are Avoiding Dreaded Down Rounds

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Secret NYPD Files: Officers Who Lie And Brutally Beat People Can Keep Their Jobs

Secret NYPD Files: Officers Who Lie And Brutally Beat People Can Keep Their Jobs

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The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over

The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over

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The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Cancer Researchers From Top Institutions

The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Cancer Researchers From Top Institutions

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Bloomberg Businessweek

The foundations of the best pension system in the world are cracking [translated]

The foundations of the best pension system in the world are cracking [translated]

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Follow The Money

This is what it’s like to deliver food during a pandemic

This is what it’s like to deliver food during a pandemic

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Los Angeles Times

Why It’s Time To Uncover The Surprises Hiding In Our DNA

Why It’s Time To Uncover The Surprises Hiding In Our DNA

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Luis López (mallet)

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A Very Old Man for a Wolf

A Very Old Man for a Wolf

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Your Kid Doesn’t Need to Be LeBron or Serena

Your Kid Doesn’t Need to Be LeBron or Serena

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Unable to resist the urge to wave at the end of Zoom calls? You're not alone

Unable to resist the urge to wave at the end of Zoom calls? You're not alone

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Crypto evangelists promise Web3 will be a truly free and democratic internet — but it's failing to live up to that hype

Crypto evangelists promise Web3 will be a truly free and democratic internet — but it's failing to live up to that hype

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The Best Way to Comfort Someone When They’re Sad

The Best Way to Comfort Someone When They’re Sad

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Can We Really Love Our Children Unconditionally?

Can We Really Love Our Children Unconditionally?

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How Would You Feel About a 100-Year-Old Doctor?

How Would You Feel About a 100-Year-Old Doctor?

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Can Big Tech Get Bigger? Microsoft Presses Governments to Say Yes.

Can Big Tech Get Bigger? Microsoft Presses Governments to Say Yes.

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The 2022 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books

The 2022 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books

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Mari Kanstad Johnsen

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What Will Become of the Pandemic Pets?

What Will Become of the Pandemic Pets?

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Preparing Financially, Before the Storm Hits

Preparing Financially, Before the Storm Hits

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Pakistan’s Vulnerability to Disaster Was Through the Roof. Then Came the Floods.

Pakistan’s Vulnerability to Disaster Was Through the Roof. Then Came the Floods.

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Ibrahim Rayintakath

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Spotify Bets Big on Podcasts as a Path to Profitability

Spotify Bets Big on Podcasts as a Path to Profitability

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Maria Chimishkyan

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer

Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer

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Diana Ejaita’s “Tastes of Home”

Diana Ejaita’s “Tastes of Home”

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The Future of Farming is Smarter

The Future of Farming is Smarter

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Hudson Christie

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New Trail: University of Alberta

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The Fight for Fifteen at an Orlando McDonald’s

The Fight for Fifteen at an Orlando McDonald’s

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Someday Your Self-Driving Car Will Pull Over for Police

Someday Your Self-Driving Car Will Pull Over for Police

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Cari Vander Yacht

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Why Zoom Is Terrible

Why Zoom Is Terrible

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Codependency Is a Toxic Myth in Addiction Recovery

Codependency Is a Toxic Myth in Addiction Recovery

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I Don’t Need My Life to Be Remarkable

I Don’t Need My Life to Be Remarkable

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Karlotta Freier

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Vote If You Love Food

Vote If You Love Food

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Bon Appétit Magazine

The Unbearable Whiteness of Baseball

The Unbearable Whiteness of Baseball

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Cristiana Couceiro

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Performances of Unstinting Ardor Electrify “Pieces of a Woman”

Performances of Unstinting Ardor Electrify “Pieces of a Woman”

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The Flashing Warning of QAnon

The Flashing Warning of QAnon

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The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison

The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison

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The Marshall Project

In a Sick World, Choosing Between Freedom and Restriction

In a Sick World, Choosing Between Freedom and Restriction

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Alanah Sarginson

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Pandemic Playlists: Sad bangers and other songs that get us through.

Pandemic Playlists: Sad bangers and other songs that get us through.

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Muhammad Fatchurofi

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Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths

Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths

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Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature.

Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature.

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McSweeney's Issue 68: Cover

McSweeney's Issue 68: Cover

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Daniele Castellano

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Burned Out on Your Personal Brand

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Crawfish boils are how we kick off summer back home. You can't replicate that in New York.

Crawfish boils are how we kick off summer back home. You can't replicate that in New York.

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Happiness Won’t Save You

Happiness Won’t Save You

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Putting Your Washing Machine Into the Fight Against Ocean Plastic

Putting Your Washing Machine Into the Fight Against Ocean Plastic

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Cathryn Virginia

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I’ve learned there is one question you shouldn’t ask a newcomer

I’ve learned there is one question you shouldn’t ask a newcomer

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The Globe and Mail

Why People Ghost — and How to Get Over It

Why People Ghost — and How to Get Over It

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Coronavirus Ended the Screen-Time Debate. Screens Won.

Coronavirus Ended the Screen-Time Debate. Screens Won.

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Andrea Chronopoulos

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How the Chinese Language Got Modernized

How the Chinese Language Got Modernized

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The Spying That Changed Big Tech

The Spying That Changed Big Tech

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Tomasz Wozniakowski

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8 thrillers and mysteries to read this summer

8 thrillers and mysteries to read this summer

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Jentwo (Janejira Taechakampu)

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Washington Post

Blood is a respected ingredient around the world, but less so in the U.S. A new book aims to change that.

Blood is a respected ingredient around the world, but less so in the U.S. A new book aims to change that.

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Washington Post

Gender Reveal Party

Gender Reveal Party

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Melanie Lambrick

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What Not to Eat: ‘The Case Against Sugar’

What Not to Eat: ‘The Case Against Sugar’

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Hudson Christie

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Who Should Stop Unethical A.I.?

Who Should Stop Unethical A.I.?

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The Last Member of an Uncontacted Tribe

The Last Member of an Uncontacted Tribe

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No One Likes Annual Performance Reviews—Here’s How to Get Rid of Them

No One Likes Annual Performance Reviews—Here’s How to Get Rid of Them

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Muhammad Fatchurofi

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Apps Are Coming for Your Happy Hour

Apps Are Coming for Your Happy Hour

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Maria Chimishkyan

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Bloomberg Businessweek

In A Warming Climate, We Need To Radically Rethink How We Conserve Nature

In A Warming Climate, We Need To Radically Rethink How We Conserve Nature

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National Geographic

NY Magazine: Best of New York 2013

NY Magazine: Best of New York 2013

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New York Magazine

Hackers Can Be Fought Without Violating Americans’ Rights

Hackers Can Be Fought Without Violating Americans’ Rights

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My post-Covid family reunion wasn't what I expected. But it was so much of what I needed.

My post-Covid family reunion wasn't what I expected. But it was so much of what I needed.

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For Millennials in Los Angeles, Bad Thoughts Arise

For Millennials in Los Angeles, Bad Thoughts Arise

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Sara Andreasson

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The Reinvention of the Right

The Reinvention of the Right

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A Bird Translates Silence

A Bird Translates Silence

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Poetry Foundation

The Negotiators

The Negotiators

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The Climate Crisis Is Worse for Women. Here’s Why.

The Climate Crisis Is Worse for Women. Here’s Why.

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Drowning is one of the hardest homicides to prove. These investigators want to change that.

Drowning is one of the hardest homicides to prove. These investigators want to change that.

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Tracy Flick Takes on the World, Again

Tracy Flick Takes on the World, Again

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Karlotta Freier

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The Anxiety of Isolation

The Anxiety of Isolation

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The Year Women Got ‘Horny’

The Year Women Got ‘Horny’

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Convergent Visions

Convergent Visions

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Faesthetic Magazine

Why Won’t Hollywood Cast Asian Actors?

Why Won’t Hollywood Cast Asian Actors?

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Financial Instability Is a Mental Health Crisis

Financial Instability Is a Mental Health Crisis

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Elemental, by Medium

Chris Ware’s “Lockdown”: The artist discusses using his daily life in his drawings, and his daughter’s experience with school shooting drills.

Chris Ware’s “Lockdown”: The artist discusses using his daily life in his drawings, and his daughter’s experience with school shooting drills.

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An Eco-Conscious Poet Whose Real Subject Is Consciousness Itself

An Eco-Conscious Poet Whose Real Subject Is Consciousness Itself

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Sanchit Sawaria

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The False Promises Of Worker Retraining

The False Promises Of Worker Retraining

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Hollywood Reconsiders the Bad Female Boss, With a Generational Twist

Hollywood Reconsiders the Bad Female Boss, With a Generational Twist

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Cari Vander Yacht

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Strategic Planning Should Be a Strategic Exercise

Strategic Planning Should Be a Strategic Exercise

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Mathieu Labrecque

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Harvard Business Review

How “Settlers” Avoids the Perils of Mars Movies

How “Settlers” Avoids the Perils of Mars Movies

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The New Psychedelic Plot

The New Psychedelic Plot

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Wallstreet Journal

MOMENT 2: What We Talk About When We Talk About Our City

MOMENT 2: What We Talk About When We Talk About Our City

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MOMENT Magazine

Whatever You Write, There You Are

Whatever You Write, There You Are

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Sebastian König

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BioNTech Supercharges a Factory to Produce More Covid Vaccine

BioNTech Supercharges a Factory to Produce More Covid Vaccine

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Bloomberg Businessweek

The Misunderstood Art of Mischief

The Misunderstood Art of Mischief

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Angela Kirkwood

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Hunting for a PS5 has become an entire subculture

Hunting for a PS5 has become an entire subculture

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How Bad Is the Global Food Crisis Going to Get?

How Bad Is the Global Food Crisis Going to Get?

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Ibrahim Rayintakath

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Emmys: Will the ‘Game of Thrones’ Divisive Finale Hurt Its Awards Chances?

Emmys: Will the ‘Game of Thrones’ Divisive Finale Hurt Its Awards Chances?

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Lonely, Vital Work of Medical Interpretation

The Lonely, Vital Work of Medical Interpretation

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Turkish Men Get Away With Murder

Turkish Men Get Away With Murder

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Britain in the Crazed Brexit Vortex

Britain in the Crazed Brexit Vortex

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The Earth After Humans

The Earth After Humans

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The Surprisingly Sophisticated Mind Of An Insect

The Surprisingly Sophisticated Mind Of An Insect

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