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‘Extinction Rebellion has discovered that by mixing up its demands with concern for the environment, it can win support — or at least a passing kind of support — from a much wider band of the population.’
E-scooters are a wretched species to be introduced into the urban ecosystem
DC is the Wild West of e-scooterdom: there are just too many operating here
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The wonderful world of community theater
The woman sitting next to me whispered urgently: ‘I can’t take my eyes off that man’s nipple’
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Where did the term ‘impeach’ come from?
The term was first used in its modern sense for the process of removing errant members of the English House of Lords in the 14th century.
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Big dope: how marijuana benefited from one of the slickest PR campaigns in history
The effects on many of its users are permanent. They may give it up, but the damage has been done
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Tacitus, master of ‘government sources’
For the modern journalist, rumor and inside sources, however attractive, often generate only fake news
By Peter Jones
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Asians are doing too well — they must be stopped
The Asian American success story catastrophically undermines the assumptions behind affirmative action
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Trump’s economic nationalism is an effort to save capitalism
America needs to harness capitalism as successfully as China has
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Mass extinction
The only way to tackle Extinction Rebellion is by dissecting its ideology
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Who really invented the word ‘posh’?
People prefer memorable tales, especially those involving acronyms, to the truth
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California is a gigantic asylum
Before the 1960s, the culture of lunacy in California was confined to Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Carmel
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Words matter: we must be more honest about language
When we say politicians should be pilloried, we don’t mean passers-by should throw rocks at them
By Sam Leith
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Who’s listening? Civilized debate is dead
Our society has become perfectly content with a set of unchallenged lies
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Trans rights, voter wrongs
Insisting that men can be women is a sure way to lose an election
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Why are young people so left-wing?
Left-wing professors think it’s their responsibility to open their students’ eyes to injustice
By Toby Young
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The shallow state
A real Deep State would have stopped Trump winning in the first place
By Paul Wood
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Elizabeth Warren is the Hillary Clinton of 2020
The Massachusetts senator is a left-wing populist for people who don’t want left-wing populism
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Does Trump have a better idea than endless wars?
Few in Washington acknowledge the scope of the self-inflicted wounds the US has sustained since 9/11
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Pulling US troops out of Syria will prove to be the right decision
Donald Trump, peacemaker?
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Books + Arts
Time to end the taste truce
Have we become so tolerant that taste no longer matters?
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Tough gospel: the twin cities of Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is the world we have lost: grandparents, honest jobs and Sunday school teachers
By James Panero
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A motel room of one’s own
Adman to American existentialist: Edward Hopper at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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‘A Russian vowel is an orange, an English vowel is a lemon’
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov reviewed
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The perfect crime
Once true crime has you by the listicles, you’re compelled to return to the scene
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Is Lou Reed a rock ’n’ roll Dostoevsky?
I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed reviewed
By D.J. Taylor
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Heart of darkness
Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe by Rory MacLean reviewed
By Sara Wheeler
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On Freud’s couch
The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922-1968 by William Feaver reviewed
By Craig Raine
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Why do we write dedications in books?
These ghostly remnants of love, loss and friendship tell stories of their own
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On photography, shrines and Maradona: a Neapolitan pilgrimage
The author wanders around Naples seeking transcendence – and finds it
By Geoff Dyer
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Life
My morning with Black Lives Matter UK
By the time I was 12, I was listening to Bob Marley while memorizing Dr King
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What did the maid make of my penis vacuum pump?
While I was out, she had polished it and positioned it on a glass shelf lit by four spotlights
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Fashion victims: how feminists are betraying Muslim women
In the West, hierarchies of collective privilege and victimhood are more important than individual rights
By Libby Emmons
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Is your home culturally insensitive?
Keep your judgmental hands off my Japanese tea bowls
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The ‘Russians’ of Brighton Beach
The attitude of Jewish ‘Russians’ in America toward Russia is goodbye and good luck. But mostly goodbye
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How do you make the most ‘quintessentially English’ magazine work in the US?
Launches and liquid lunches in New York and Washington
By Freddy Gray
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Why Roy Cohn is not one of the world’s most evil men
He may have had a gruff exterior but I always thought he was gooey inside
By Taki
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Food and Drink
Everyone’s climbing aboard the Beyond Meat gravy train
Welcome to the new meal deal
By Jane Stannus
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California drinking: forgive them their granola
Homer spoke of the ‘wine-dark sea’. He could not, but should, have had a Syrah like this in mind
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Craft brewing’s Midwest comeback
Emerging breweries seem uninterested in the rapid growth that brought about the downfall of earlier brands
By Lillian Li
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