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America’s Anti-Trans Panic Is a Scam

The New Republic 

In the marble halls of the battle dome of American lawfare on December 4, Tennessee’s deputy solicitor general performed a brazen act of legal gymnastics: He argued to the Supreme Court that protecting transgender children requires denying them health care. That same day, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson—architect of an AI-powered claims denial system with a reported 90 percent error rate—was shot, allegedly by a man driven to desperation by America’s predatory and labyrinthine health care system... Читать дальше...

Joan Didion, Eve Babitz, and the Biographer Who Missed the Point

The New Republic 

In a 1939 essay, the critic Philip Rahv argued that there have been two main types in American literature: the solemn and semi-clerical, which he associates with Henry James, and the exuberant, open-air lowlife embodied in Walt Whitman. Between them, James and Whitman represent the distinction between “life conceived as a discipline” and “life conceived as an opportunity.” Knowingly or not, Lili Anolik’s dual biography, Didion & Babitz, endeavors to revive Rahv’s opposition, this time for the ladies. Читать дальше...

The Best Films of 2024

The New Yorker 

The year’s strongest films offered thrilling affirmation of cinema as a global medium.

The Artist Exposing the Data We Leave Online

The New Yorker 

With projects like “IMG_0001,” an online compendium of YouTube home videos, Riley Walz is calling attention to the hidden deposits of personal information that power our digital lives.

Stay at Home

The New Yorker 

If only there were a device that could prevent me from having a social life.

Fill Your Inbox With These Secrets From You've Got Mail

E! Online (UK) 

Do you hear that sound? It's your dial-up connecting you to AOL and its chat rooms. Yes, we're taking you back to a time before WiFi. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's romantic comedy You've Got Mail came...

Judges punt retirement plans after Trump win, raising ethics questions

TheHill.com 

A handful of federal judges appointed by Democrats have put off retirement plans in the wake of President-elect Trump’s election victory, raising questions about the ethics of their decisions as judicial vacancies for the next administration dwindle. Legal experts said judges have discretion to decide when to retire, and while walk-backs are rare, it’s...

How did Turkey become the world capital of hair transplants?

Vox 

Tens of millions of tourists visit Turkey each year, most of whom are there to see the convergence of East and West. It’s a place where Europe meets Asia, where history collides with modernism, where you can find a dazzling combination of culture and cool unlike anywhere else on planet Earth. But among those millions […]