*the only ones In 2025 I didn’t see many films released in 2025. (I saw 5.) It doesn’t surprise me. My theater-going habit has declined with the rest of the country. Plus as noticed in the results …

Life, death, and the rampage of ICE.

They’re likely to burst.

Though José Mujica did not publish much writing, his views on life and politics live on through the corpus of interviews.

Nine Chinese giants dominate a market Tesla and Volvo can barely crack.

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Air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills 8.7 million people each year. We homed in on over 9,500 point-sources located in urban areas that expose a disproportionate number of people to PM2.5

The new Big Bad is the American Way itself.

The US has long fused politics and violence, often through firearms. To claim that such shootings betray ‘who we are’ is to forget that the US was founded on this form of political violence.

On The Time of Monsters: Taylor Lorenz on the shadowy groups backing some big Democratic influencers.

An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.

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Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides

gross(verb)  “to earn a total of,” 1884, from gross (adj.) in the “whole, total” sense. Slang meaning “make (someone) disgusted” (usually with out) is from 1971. …

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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All the hits to be played from periods in my life (ala Defending Your Life) and that ring true to the Gen X-isms that have been thrown at me since I was twenty five. A rewind, a review, a reflection. ...