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The Census shows that vast stretches of America are Shrinking. Almost all of them voted for Donald Trump | slate
Ninety percent of counties that lost population in the last decade backed the ex-president. By Jordan Weissmann, Aug 14, 20215:40 AM Donald Trump and the Republican Party he shaped represent the fading face of the United States, winning over an older, more rural, and overwhelmingly caucasian bloc of voters that reflected the country’s past more…
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Billions of dollars aren’t enough to fix America’s train problem | SLATE
By Henry Grabar, Aug 09, 202111:34 AM As part of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill that is edging ever closer to passage, Congress is set to give Amtrak $30 billion for the Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston, part of a $66 billion grant for the network nationwide. To some, this may seem like a…
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Amtrak funding in the infrastructure bill: A plan to fix up America’s passenger rail
What the beleaguered operator should do with $66 billion from Congress. By Henry Grabar, July 30, 202112:31 PM Amtrak Joe delivers. The bipartisan infrastructure bill that seems likely to pass the Senate contains $66 billion for intercity rail, which is pretty damn close to the $80 billion President Joe Biden asked for in April. The…
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Roadrunner movie: The Anthony Bourdain documentary is no hagiography | SLATE
Roadrunner is a brilliant, sometimes troubling documentary about a brilliant, sometimes troubling man. By Dana Stevens, July 13, 202111:03 AM Within seconds of the opening of Roadrunner, a new documentary from the Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom,Won’t You Be My Neighbor?), the writer, chef, and TV personality Anthony Bourdain is already talking…
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How paper punch cards enabled the rise of computing, and shaped humanity | SLATE
An 80-by-10 grid punched into a paper card helped drive us out of the Industrial Age and into the Data Age. By Caleb Scharf, June 23, 202112:53 PM From The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life’s Unending Algorithm by Caleb Scharf published on June 15, 2021 by Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin…
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Hemingway: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick interview on how #MeToo changed their PBS docuseries.
The co-directors explain how the literary icon embodied both toxic masculinity and gender fluidity. Ernest Hemingway. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo courtesy of Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. By Abigail Covington, April 07, 202110:00 PM Ken Burns and Lynn Novick started working on their new docuseries about Ernest…
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Amtrak CEO William J. Flynn thinks Americans are ready for trains again
And he says sleeper cars are making a comeback. By Henry Grabar, March 15, 20213:28 PM William J. Flynn took over as CEO of Amtrak at the worst possible time. It was April 2020—one month after the country locked down—and ridership on the quasi-public passenger rail network was down by 97 percent. Two recovery bills…
