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What Did Men Do to Deserve This? – The New Yorker
The Weekend Essay What Did Men Do to Deserve This? Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.” By Jessica Winter, November 9, 2025 Bald, white, and jacked, Scott Galloway is an action figure of the tech-and-finance overclass. He’s…
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5 Best Ernest Hemingway Adaptations
MENTAL FLOSS 5 Best Ernest Hemingway Adaptations While Hemingway wasn’t generally a fan of the adaptations of his works, these five films are must-watches. ByTim Brinkhof, Nov 12, 2025 Ernest Hemingway wasn’t a huge fan of cinema. According to his son Patrick, “pictures on the silver screen were nothing but pure illusion (…) and not…
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Letters from an American – November 11, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, November 11, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 11, 2025 In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was…
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These United States: Raising the flag – CBS Sunday Morning – YouTube
These United States: Raising the flagCBS Sunday Morning 1.78M subscribers 20,684 views Nov 9, 2025 For decades, John Monsky’s passion has been collecting American flags – from those that accompanied soldiers during the Civil War and on the beaches of France on D-Day, to ones that landed on the Moon. He tells Mo Rocca that…
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Trump Did In One Year What Took Putin 20 Years, Says Julia Ioffe – Bloomberg
Julia Ioffe on Why Putinism Won’t Die With Putin The Motherland author talks about reclaiming Russia’s women, the “demented family heirlooms” of Soviet trauma, and the country’s relationship with its chief decision-maker. By Mishal Husain, November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM EST Telling the story of a country through its women is an epic undertaking…
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Progress by Presidents: Obama–Biden vs. Trump – A Comparison – 2025
Editor’s Note: I wanted to compare our recent “Democratic Party” Presidents with the two Trump terms, one in just under a year in office. The goals, achievements, and actions are striking in terms of serving American citizens and American Democracy. I was aided in my comparison project by Perplexity Pro, my right-hand AI for deep…
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How Americans Are Thinking About Aging – Pew Research Center
|November 6, 2025 How Americans Are Thinking About Aging For older adults, income largely shapes the aging experience By Luona Lin and Juliana Menasce Horowitz About this research The U.S. population is aging rapidly. From 2004 to 2024, the share of Americans ages 65 and older increased from 12.4% to 18.0%, according to the U.S.…
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When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future – Literary Hub
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future Maris Kreizman on the Dangers of the AI Content Churn By Maris Kreizman, November 6, 2025 Maris Kreizman Maris Kreizman hosted the literary podcast, The Maris Review, for four years. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic,…
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The queen of vampire fiction gets her New Orleans farewell – Axios New Orleans
Oct 31, 2025 – Culture The queen of vampire fiction gets her New Orleans farewell New Orleans pays homage this weekend to author Anne Rice in two grand events for fans of the vampire novelist and the fantastical world she created. Why it matters: It’s a delayed celebration of life for Rice, who died in…
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This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools – ProPublica
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools by Jennifer Smith Richards Oct. 22, 2025, 5 a.m. EDT Co-published with The Frontier ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories…
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The US veers toward Christian nationalism – CNN What Matters
: The US veers toward Christian nationalism Americans are used to hearing about the tradition of separating church and state, but the two are increasingly fused in President Donald Trump’s administration. The First Amendment, after all, in addition to guaranteeing free speech, says that Congress shall “make no law respecting an establishment of…
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In his new book, author Dan Brown tackles the ultimate mystery : NPR
Author Interviews In his new book, author Dan Brown tackles the ultimate mystery September 9, 2025, 4:27 PM ET, Heard on All Things Considered By Scott Detrow, Tyler Bartlam, and Jeanette Woods5-Minute Listen Transcript Author Dan Brown is known for storylines that delve into myth and conspiracy theories. His new book — The Secret of Secrets…
