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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty I’m Staying on Twitter
But it matters that Elon Musk now owns it.
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Courtesy of Marvel Studios Jordan Calhoun’s Culture Picks: Black Panther, A Strange Loop, and More
The Atlantic writer is worried about HBO Max, but he’s still thinking about Station Eleven
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Contributor / Getty Putin’s Play for the Western Right
The Russian dictator makes his pitch to the world’s reactionaries.
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Noam Galai / Getty How to Stay Healthy This Cold-and-Flu Season
Hand-washing versus masking, staying home versus going into work, and the policy solutions we’re not (yet) pursuing
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Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Britain’s New Leader Faces a Tough Winter
Rishi Sunak’s “instincts are going to collide with reality,” Helen Lewis says. “There is no appetite among British voters for low-tax libertarianism.”
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Hurting Democracy Won’t Help the Economy
Our fellow citizens need to think about what life will look like if the GOP wins.
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Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputnik / AFP / Getty Russia’s ‘Dirty Bomb’ Ploy
By groundlessly suggesting that Ukraine is preparing to use a “dirty bomb,” the Kremlin is testing the West—and potentially provoking a nuclear standoff.
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Vince Valitutti Hannah Giorgis’s Favorite Things in Culture
The Atlantic writer is savoring her top fall movie and poem, and is grateful she waited this long to watch Girls.
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Robert Alexander / Getty America’s Latino Future Is Here
Latinos are not a “sleeping giant” about to waltz into U.S. politics. They’re voting with their fellow citizens.
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John Sommers II / Getty The Moment in 2012 That Foreshadowed Trump’s Rise
David French on how Newt Gingrich first exposed the schism that has since transformed the GOP
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Alex Wong / Getty What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Republican House
The investigations, impeachments, and 2024-election uncertainty that may lie ahead
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iStock / Getty The End of a Millennial Internet Era
Kaitlyn Tiffany on how Slack and Giphy hastened the decline of a treasured mode of online expression, the GIF
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Mark Makela / Getty The Survivor Vote
How John Fetterman’s stroke helped deepen his everyman appeal among some supporters
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Focus Features Sophie Gilbert’s 27 Favorite Things in Culture
Her top actors and authors, the poem she can’t stop thinking about, and the kids’ show that makes her cry
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty Donald Trump Tried to Destroy the Constitution
What will it take for millions of Americans to care?
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Jean-Baptiste Lacroix / AFP / Getty Why Conspiracy Theorists Always Land on the Jews
“The more conspiratorial discourse your society has, the more likely people will become anti-Semites,” Yair Rosenberg says.
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Dietsch / Getty The Anti-abortion Movement’s New Distrust of Democracy
“It was never going to be the case that if voters wanted abortion to be legal, the movement would be comfortable with that,” Mary Ziegler says.
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Jeff Swensen / Getty J. D. Vance and the Collapse of Dignity
American politics are now cruel burlesque.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty The President and the Bomb
Joe Biden warns Russia about the existential risk of using nuclear weapons.
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Sean Rayford / Getty Americans Are Moving Into the Paths of Hurricanes
Vann R. Newkirk II on the voluntary—and involuntary—movements putting people across the country in harm’s way
