With little industry pushback, the United Kingdom announced plans to stop burning coal by 2025. Instigated by cultural shifts and a tax on coal usage, an obvious glowing ember remains staunchly reliant upon coal: the United States.
Katie Kosma
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Frailty, Thy Name Is Immigration Control
Quoting Shakespeare isn’t new, but using it in court to fight Trump’s immigration control is.
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When Hamlet Starts Showing Up in Federal Court
Lawyers have long set a precedent for citing Shakespeare in trial. During these murky, divided days the Bard’s words may ring truer than e’er.
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TPS Reports All Day Long
Have technological advances left many of us with jobs devoid of meaning? Are we bullshit?
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The Bullshit-Job Boom
Existentialists with agita, rejoice. We now have an anthropologist’s new book confirming that what we do means nothing. David Greaber’s Bullshit Jobs examines the current work economy and how we attribute meaning to our lives with possibly (probably?) meaningless tasks.
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Across the World in 80 Days
People are building rockets to propel themselves miles high so they can look down and confirm the disk-shaped flatness of our planet.
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Looking for Life on a Flat Earth
Alan Burdick spent two days at a North Carolina convention for Flat-Earthers. In a post-truth era, should more people shed their spherical beliefs and admit science may not be science at all?
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The Beat of Dissent
Dissident rappers surface as powerful antagonists against Angola’s corrupt kleptocracy.
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The Blood Ritual That Lives on YouTube
A controversial cyber-pagan ceremony conjurs issues of self-empowerment, solidarity, and heaven on earth.