The Biden presidency has donned Jimmy Carter’s cardigan of shame in only nine months
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Everyone’s more engaged. That’s going to help in the long run
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Our direction is not toward liberalism, but away from order of any kind
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As I hit my eighth sober birthday, I’m reflecting on exactly how much getting sober played a part in where I am today
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Inflation seldom explodes overnight: it builds up gradually
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The Scottish National party is ruining Glasgow
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Has demonstrating our alleged progress replaced progress itself?
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The Nineties were the first decade of the 21st century
By Matt Purple
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They only reached popular consciousness in the 2010s, when feminist blogs used them ahead of content about sexual violence
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The wall between journalism and activism is badly corroded
By Jesse Singal
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My addiction turned out to be an entirely correctable habit
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When the media’s credibility collapsed, the New York Times led the way
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Wanting to avoid the airport, I took a late-evening, six-and-a-half-hour train from Edinburgh to Bristol
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Books + Arts
The Greeks by Roderick Beaton and The Greek Revolution by Mark Mazower reviewed
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Miss Dior: A Study of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie reviewed
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Leaving the Building: The Lucrative Afterlife of Music Estates by Eamonn Forde reviewed
By Max Décharné
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The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie and Women in the Picture by Catherine McCormack reviewed
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Waugh was unquestionably among the greatest novelists of the 20th century
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Anti-capitalist artists like Barbara Kruger and Santiago Sierra are very skilled at making money from the capitalist machine
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Lee Morgan was searching for a new musical path forward, following but not retreading the bebop era
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The exorbitant transaction fees Grubhub and DoorDash and Uber Eats charge mean restaurants often lose money
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Life
Yes, prison is unremittingly bleak, but I recall only how physically well I felt during my time inside
By Taki
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I don’t exactly look forward to them but it’s not so bad once I’m there
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You never appreciate how little your friends know you till they fix you up with a date
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It’s hard to believe, but New York was a competitive state then
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Until quite recently, the preponderance of the country viewed suspicion of change, let alone resistance to it, as un-American
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The leotard was always a happily ambiguous garment
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A surd number or quantity is irrational, such as the square root of two
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Place
I wouldn’t envy anyone fighting in that terrain against a tenacious, vigorous people defending their beloved homeland
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Food and Drink
Yank yearns for ye olde English sandwich
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