“The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.”
Seyward Darby
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The Paperboy’s Secret
“In boyhood, guilt was a constant companion. I stopped mentioning the quarters that Mr. Wood put into my pocket.”
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The Inside Story of the Athens Music Scene
“How did the college football town spawn the B-52s, R.E.M., and Widespread Panic, to name just a few? The maestros and misfits who led Athens’s rise to one of the world’s most influential and improbable music towns tell all.”
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Made in the USA
“Pete Hegseth is the product of an essentially American ethos—which means we have no choice but to ask what to do with him, and what to do with ourselves.”
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Life With Locked-in Syndrome: ‘Despite Everything, You Are Alive’
“Matt Rudd has remarkable conversations with three Britons who, after life-changing accidents, have fully active minds but cannot move or speak, and can communicate only via the blink of an eye.”
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The Wrong Stalker
“He was locked up for a dangerous infatuation. Nothing was as it seemed.”
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Whither the Nerd-Bully?
“Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became.”
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The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
“Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.”
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What Will It Take to Get AI Out of Schools?
“The tech world assumes that AI-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite.”
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“You Are Always Just a Kiss Away From Me My Beautiful Boy.”
“Their family members vanished near Mass. Ave. They won’t stop searching.”