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This story is an excerpt from The Reactionary Spirit: How America’s Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World by Zack Beauchamp. Copyright 2024. Available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. In April 1945, a young man named David Rubin was about to die. A Jewish capmaker from a small town he called […]

This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. This week, we are taking a short break from China and turning to its neighbor South Korea instead. As K-pop sweeps the world and accumulates a massive, devout fan base, these fans…

Radiolab host Latif Nasser found and named a mysterious quasi-moon of Venus. Now you can help name one of Earth’s quasi-moons.

Children in the care of a Spirit Rising House were given cannabis daily, allowed to go to homes where they were sexually exploited, and taken to see known drug dealers by staff, according to newly unsealed search warrant documents obtained by CBC News.

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This is where the Penguins depth will be tested.

To hold public office in the United States today is to know that someone could try to kill you.

A poem for Wednesday

NFL season is 50 days away: 50 under-the-radar players who could shape the 2024 season  CBS SportsView Full Coverage on Google News

Although Pierluigi Gollini hardly had a year to remember whilst in North London, it appears that he still sometimes trains in Spurs training kit during... The post Player spotted still wearing Spurs training gear two years after leaving the club appeared first on The Spurs Web - Tottenham Hotspur Football News.

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The Open returns to Royal Troon, so we have provided the latest odds and predictions for the season’s final major.

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This year is being touted as an unprecedented year of elections with consequences across the globe. Hundreds of millions have voted from India to Indonesia to Mexico. This past month it was the turn of two of America’s most significant European allies, the U.K. and France, the two Western states that sit alongside the United States as permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. In November, of course, it is America’s turn. 

I didn’t look in on the Republican National Convention until late Monday night, preferring instead to watch the 1935 John Ford comedy The Whole Town’s Talking, wherein Edward G. Robinson plays both a vicious gangster and a nebbishy office worker who gets mistaken for the gangster; a moderate quantity of hilarity ensues. With that done, I figured, all right, I don’t feel like it, but a national magazine pays me to do this. So I logged on to the convention—and saw Teamsters President Sean O’Brien excoriating corporate America. Читать дальше...

Heat waves have killed thousands around the world in recent months. As periods of exceptionally high temperatures become increasingly frequent and intense due to climate change, drastic action is required to limit the damage. The electric power sector is both contributing to the problem as one of the principal sources of greenhouse gas emissions and being hurt by it, as seen by the early arrival of a powerful storm like Hurricane Beryl and lower water levels at Lake Mead threatening the Hoover Dam’s ability to produce energy. Читать дальше...

Senior Democrats, led by the Biden administration, have for years broadcast endless confidence in their party’s ability to achieve the by now virtually impossible task of keeping global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). Some of those same people have now reportedly resigned themselves to Donald Trump’s reelection, which should cast some doubt on the first claim.

Shrinkflation has become a sneaky trend affecting everything from snacks to household staples, but consumers are catching on. A TikToker called out Target for a recent change she noticed with the store's microwavable bacon.

You get what you pay for. That’s what they always say, right? And while that can be true for many things, antivirus software is a little different.

Donald Trump can't lose the 2024 election in the story Republicans at the RNC are telling each other after a failed assassination attempt.

A "guest star," briefly seen in 1181, was created by colliding dead stars, according to new simulations that may finally solve an 800-year-old cosmic mystery.

BALTIMORE, MD - CIRCA 1970’s: Bob Lanier #16 of the Detroit Pistons in action shooting over Greg Ballard #42 of the Washington Bullets defense during a late circa 1970’s NBA basketball game at the Baltimore Coliseum in Baltimore, Maryland. Lanier played for the Pistons from 1970-79, 80. | Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images

Somewhat overlooked today, Lanier was one of the best big men to ever play.

Policy advocates across industries invoke ‘Nutrition Facts’ as a model for empowering consumers and enabling socially responsible markets.

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Isaac Paredes goes 0-1, but the American League comes out victorious

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Steven Kwan was the first Guardian to appear in the 2024 MLB All-star game, but he was far from the last.

Batting leadoff for the American League, Kwan faced off against Paul Skenes, who was dressed as a member of the 2011 Marlins. Along with his teammates, Kwan was dressed as Infield.

Kwan popped up. He later walked before being replaced by Riley Greene. Greene dressed as sand was confusing.

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