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On reading Don Quixote in 2026

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

It can feel like listening to Spotify, reading this way. A patchy sampling, in which huge expanses of history are available but unintuitively organized, likely to result in having heard rarities and m...

On the road again; Big Score on Substack with Justin Kamp’s “The Swimmer in the City”; Big Score No. 3 taking shape + cover reveal

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Mark Ruffalo slams Paramount's "fundamentally dishonest" antisemitism accusations

The party is racing to get behind Dr. Abdul El-Sayed after a poisonous Senate primary in Michigan, but some Democrats still have reservations.

Democrats are going to have to organize voters — not just fund-raise off them.

Runaway production isn’t just costing Hollywood jobs. It’s severing the intergenerational chains along which film crafts are passed down, replacing an industry town’s living inheritance with a dislocated workforce that must always start from scratch.

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse say they were stood up after having scheduled a meeting to speak about Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general.

Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.

A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.

Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.

A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.