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The D.C. Brief
IF THE UPPER MIDWEST IS THE fail-safe for Democrats' Blue Wall, then they reached to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in search of a new break-in-case-of-emergency tool.
Sam Bankman-Fried's D.C. charm offensive
IN 2022, IT WAS HARD TO WALK AROUND WASHINGTON without seeing Sam Bankman-Fried's face.
Bibi At War
THE EMBATTLED PREMIER ON GAZA, IRAN, AND ISRAEL'S PERILOUS FUTURE
SECOND CHANCE
The reintroduction of Kamala Harris
How to Avoid A Climate Backlash
The energy transition hangs in the balance, as green policies fuel right-wing politics
Dom Pecora
FIXING BIKES, CHANGING LIVES
Shanya Gill
FIGHTING FIRE WITH INGENUITY
Jordan Sucato
PROTECTING PAWS
Health Matters - Dementia is one of the scariest diagnoses in medicine, in part because it seems impossible to prevent.
Dementia is one of the scariest diagnoses in medicine, in part because it seems impossible to prevent. But recent research suggests that's not the case. In fact, a new report based on an analysis of hundreds of studies says almost half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed if people adopted certain habits. These are among the most effective.
As the Personal Check Disappears, What Comes Next? The check. A thousand years later, this form of payment is finally disappearing.
The newest type of payment –the first to be introduced in the U.S. since the 1970s– is called instant payments, in which money moves from your account to another immediately. You may think you already use instant payments with services like Venmo, but you don't. Those payments come from a Venmo account rather than directly from your bank account, and the funds can take some time to move.
AMERICAN FURY
For years, experts have warned of a wave of political violence. We should prepare for things to get worse before they get better.
Pity the Bad Man
A bold new novel invites the reader to consider the plight of the bullies and the boors.
Does the World Need a Great American Biracial Novel?
The hero of Danzy Senna’ new satire is trying, and failing, to write one.
The Wild Adventures of Fanny Stevenson
Her surprising marriage to Robert Louis Stevenson changed literary history.
How Greed Got Good Again
In HBO's Industry, Gen Z reveals itself to be just as moneyobsessed as the corporate raiders of Wall Street.
HOW M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD
The filmmaker weathered some of the wildest hype and harshest backlash that Hollywood has to offer. Then he found a different path.
My Mother the Revolutionary
She cared about saving the world more than she cared about me.
Holy City, Silenced
Normally a bustling center of religion, tourism and commerce, Jerusalem's Old City feels more like a ghost town since October 7
The Hustle Is Real
Thirty-six percent of Americans say they have to work two jobs to make ends meet
'It Was Kind of Like a Juilliard on Steroids for Kids'
Actor Nikki DeLoach opens up about her time on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club and the life-changing illnesses that altered her mindset
Josh Hartnett
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN IS PROBABLY THE ONLY PERSON WHO LOOKED AT Josh Hartnett and thought he'd make a great serial killer, but Hartnett is glad he did.
The Dark Side of Weight Loss
How dropping pounds using slimming drugs like OZempic made these women realize they had been victims of fatphobia for years
AMERICA'S BEST ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTERS 2024
ADDICTION IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN the United States-and a common one.
FIRE AND ICE
CHINA'S GROWING PRESENCE IN THE ARCTIC IS INFLAMING TENSIONS WITH THE US
An Audacious New Read of The Decameron - The author Rivka Galchen sums up this reading in her Decameron Project introduction: "Reading stories in difficult times is a way to understand those times, and also a way to persevere through them."
Boccaccio's masterpiece follows 10 young nobles fleeing an outbreak in Florence that would ultimately reduce the city's population by half. To pass the time in their rural idyll, they tell the stories that make up the bulk of the book-one apiece for 10 days, hence the title. The consensus interpretation of The Decameron is that it illustrates the power of storytelling to buoy us through history's horrors. The author Rivka Galchen sums up this reading in her Decameron Project introduction: "Reading stories in difficult times is a way to understand those times, and also a way to persevere through them." Kathleen Jordan, the creator of Netflix's The Decameron, came away from her pandemic-era reading of Boccaccio with a different understanding. What if, her black comedy proposes, the book's true timeless message is that whether they're Florentine aristocrats in 1348 or Manhattan financiers in 2020, the privileged will always blithely abandon their less fortunate neighbors when the plague comes to town? Jordan has stripped The Decameron of its stories, choosing instead to riff on the frame narrative.
Tech Racket - Inside the "nightmare" health crisis of a Texas Bitcoin-mining town
More than 40 people in the Granbury area reported a medical ailment that they believe is connected to the arrival of the Bitcoin mine. Studies have shown that human-caused noise pollution harms animals and wildlife, causing oxidative stress and memory loss in rodents, acute anxiety in dogs, and a decrease in forest growth
5 reasons to start walking backward
I've spent my whole life happily walking in one direction: forward. It was, I believed, the only way to go, so I dutifully logged dozens of miles a month looking like every other person out for a morning stroll.
Trump Ascendant
IT'S NOW THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S RACE TO LOSE
Shannen Doherty
The quintessential Gen X girl
Why is Modi embracing Putin?
HOURS BEFORE INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA Modi landed in Moscow on July 8, Russia fired missiles on Ukraine that killed at least 41 people, including four children at a children's hospital in Kyiv.