“After years of relative quiet, the public is meeting ‘Andre 2.0’ — a pickleball booster, an open book and a guy eager to build a less tortured relationship with competition.”
Brendan Fitzgerald
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Welcome to the Age of AI Crime and Punishment
“America’s legal system is already grappling with cases where chatbots acted as lawyers and witnesses, generated the evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting. Who will be liable now that some AI agents are doing crimes all on their own?”
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This Bottle of Dijon Mustard from Costco is Crazy Hot. A Months-Long Investigation Revealed the Surprising Reason Why.
“The search for an answer took us to a mustard dynasty in France, a Hamilton mustard mill and Palliser’s Triangle.”
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The “Conformation Show” and the Pursuit of the Ideal Dog
“Just inside the Farm Bureau Center, the doormats were already covered in fur.”
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Going Home with Wendell Berry
“The writer and farmer on local knowledge, embracing limits, and the exploitation of rural America.”
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I Went to the White House Brawl and Watched the Manosphere Go Limp
“It was supposed to be an exhibition of freedom without restraint: a bombastic birthday boy, fourteen uncontrollable athletes, and a South Lawn build-out that was piss-your-pants patriotic. But what united onlookers, in the end, was the sudden realization that American machismo had hit a hard limit.”
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What if America Went Completely Dark?
“The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.”
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Bad Cards
“How a $168,000 Michael Jordan rookie card rocked the $15 billion trading card industry.”
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There’s Something Dangerous About Sam Rockwell
“Ever since that monologue—you know the one—everyone knows who the legendary scene-stealer is. Still, his appetite for taking risks means he’ll never stop surprising us.”