
Roald Dahl and the Replacement Factory
Rewriting what wasn’t wrong.
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Rewriting what wasn’t wrong.
Jimmy Carter was the finest president of my lifetime. When he passes, America will be the poorer.
Missed cues grow Native distrust around a New Mexico research project on oil well wastewater.
A monument indeed. But to what?
A look at how the myths of American history are being enhanced and weaponized for a partisan agenda.
It’s only fitting that George Santos should be a 10.0 on his own scale, though it is not out of the question that an even bigger, bolder liar may come along in due course.
Why technological progress is really stuck. A look at what happened to all the cool technology that 1960s science fiction promised us.
Ongoing protests have hit Cape Town decrying the arrival of a Russian ship en route to Antarctica, accused of prospecting the climate-stressed Southern Ocean. The peaceful rallies have provoked far-reaching reactions.
A look at the shocking idea that the end of humanity’s reign on earth might be a good idea and might, in fact, be inevitable.
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From neoliberalism to evangelicalism, a look at history, power, myth, and paranoia in our current politics, and an alternative vision of liberal democracy.