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Opinion | How Math Turned Me From a D.E.I. Skeptic to a SupporterIt’s about more than figuring out the right or wrong answers to questions. #College #Mathematics #US Politics 2025-9-5 2:01am The New York Times Eugenia Cheng ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-9-5 2:23pm - sethherr
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Opinion | America’s New SegregationTo be one nation, we have to embrace ground-up social change. #College #Donald Trump 2025-8-14 2:00pm The New York Times David Brooks ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-8-14 6:32pm - sethherr
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fast | catherine juecatherinejue.com catherine jue 1,000 words Rated 2025-7-30 4:14pm - sethherr
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‘The Interview’: Robert Reich Thinks the Baby Boomers Blew ItThe former U.S. Labor Secretary on how complacency and corporate ties created a “bully in chief.” #Barack Obama #Bill Clinton #College #Donald Trump #US Politics 2025-7-26 2:15am The New York Times David Marchese ($) 4,000 words Rated 2025-7-27 2:04pm - sethherr
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Developing our position on AI - BlogThis post is about how we've tried to develop a position on AI in the context of learning and growth at RC. #New York City #programming Recurse Center 4,000 words Rated 2025-7-26 8:32am - sethherr
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Opinion | The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to SeeThe Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past. #Books #California #Chicago #Housing #Real Estate #Texas #US Politics 2025-6-8 3:00am The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 3,000 words Rated 2025-6-10 8:18pm - sethherr
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Opinion | Christo Grozev Is the Man Putin Couldn’t KillPutin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him. #Assassination #Austria #Crime #New York City #Plane Crash 2025-6-2 2:01am The New York Times M. Gessen ($) 6,000 words Rated 2025-6-2 4:02pm - sethherr
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Opinion | What People at Pornhub Were Thinking When It Shared Videos of Child RapeFive years ago at Pornhub, executives were removing the most obvious videos of children. But one employee said ‘obvious’ meant a ‘3-year-old.’ #Alabama #Child Abuse #Pornography #Rape #Social Media 2025-5-10 4:00am The New York Times Nicholas Kristof ($) 3,000 words Rated 2025-5-10 4:59pm - sethherr
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Runaway TrenHow a Colorado slumlord’s psyop turned into a brand-new ‘forever war’ on Venezuela #Colorado #Donald Trump #Housing #Immigration #Real Estate #Venezuela 2025-4-24 5:30am The American Prospect Maureen Tkacik 9,000 words Rated 2025-4-29 10:19pm - sethherr
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Faced with measles, Texas healthcare workers confront ‘information warfare’For the first time in a decade, a US child has died of measles. What can doctors and nurses do to encourage vaccination? #Donald Trump #Politics #United States 2025-3-31 9:37am Al Jazeera Tyler Hicks 2,000 words Rated 2025-4-7 5:33pm - sethherr
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Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #Doctors #Health Care #Indiana #Pennsylvania #Texas 2024-12-11 3:00am The Marshall Project Shoshana Walter 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-28 7:37am - sethherr
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Staying Awake, by Ursula K. Le GuinNotes on the alleged decline of reading #United States 2008-1-31 4:00pm Harper's Magazine 200 words Rated 2024-9-15 5:24pm - sethherr
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Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building ThemThe state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit. #Climate Change #Colorado #Global Warming #Transportation 2024-5-31 2:00am The New York Times Megan Kimble 3,000 words Rated 2024-6-1 5:50pm - sethherr
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At Penn, Tensions May Only Be Growing After Magill’s ResignationProfessors at the University of Pennsylvania have begun to organize, fearing what they view as a plan by the billionaire Marc Rowan to upend academic freedom. #College 2024-1-29 9:20am The New York Times Stephanie Saul ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-1-29 7:12pm - sethherr
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‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. CrusadeThe backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign. #College #Texas 2024-1-20 1:35pm The New York Times Nicholas Confessore ($) 7,000 words Rated 2024-1-22 6:03pm - sethherr
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Opinion | What the University Presidents Got Right and Wrong About Antisemitic SpeechThe proper response to censorship is not more censorship. #Censorship #College #Harvard 2023-12-10 6:00am The New York Times David French ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-10 3:08pm - sethherr
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The ‘Georgists’ Are Out There, and They Want to Tax Your LandAmid a crisis in affordable housing, the century-old ideas of Henry George have gained a new currency. #Detroit #Housing #Real Estate #Urban Planning 2023-11-12 12:00am The New York Times Conor Dougherty ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-14 7:52am - sethherr
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How Montreal Built a Blueprint for Bargain Rapid TransitAt $139 million per mile, the REM is far less costly than similar recent projects. Cities with ballooning transit budgets can learn from its approach. #Business #City #Government #Infrastructure #Los Angeles #New York 2023-10-30 6:00am Bloomberg 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-5 10:46pm - sethherr
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The Dictator Myth That Refuses to DieAuthoritarians would have you think that they can do certain things better than their counterparts who have to deal with checks, balances, and public opinion. Don’t believe it. #United States 2023-7-26 7:00am The Atlantic Brian Klaas ($) 200 words Rated 2023-7-27 9:43am - sethherr
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How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and PragmatismThe privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority. As it tries to go mainstream, can it escape its roots? #Politics #Silicon Valley 2023-7-23 4:00am WIRED Kai Ye 2,000 words Rated 2023-7-25 4:13pm - sethherr
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Reclaiming Real American PatriotismThis Fourth of July, let’s rescue our love of country from those who have hijacked it. #New Hampshire #New York #West Virginia 2023-7-4 4:00am The Atlantic Tom Nichols ($) 500 words Rated 2023-7-4 9:32am - Jaog
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What Does ‘Buying American’ Even Mean?In a globalized economy, the definition of “buying American” is becoming quite cloudy—and so are the consequences of policies designed to encourage it. #Buy American 2019-7-3 12:00am The New York Times Tim Heffernan 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-11 10:03am - Jaog
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The Talk: Accused of PlagiarismIn an excerpt from his forthcoming book, “The Talk,” Darrin Bell illustrates a conversation with a professor at U.C. Berkeley who accused him, without evidence, of plagiarism. #College 2023-6-3 3:00am The New Yorker Darrin Bell 200 words Rated 2023-6-4 7:23am - sethherr
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Can the ‘California Effect’ Survive in a Hyperpartisan America?For decades the state has been setting policy for the whole nation. Now red states are pushing back. #California #Cars #Florida 2023-5-30 1:50am The New York Times Conor Dougherty ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-5-30 2:37pm - cindy
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A Plan to Save Downtown San Francisco, Break the Doom LoopRated 2023-4-10 1:25pm - alexandradancing
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Why Congress — and Biden — killed DC’s crime billRated 2023-3-29 5:25pm - jim
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The Constitution isn’t the obstacle to D.C. statehood.Rated 2023-3-29 5:18pm - alexandradancing
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DC statehood is bad policy and worse politicsRated 2023-3-29 1:26pm - sethherr
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Why Statehood for DC | statehoodRated 2023-3-21 6:10pm - cindy
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