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Israel Rejects Far-Right Plan for New Limits on Access to Important Mosque
The Israeli government has decided against putting new restrictions on access to an important mosque in Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a move that may reduce tensions at a site that has long been a flashpoint for unrest. At a ...
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Why Elon Musk Is the Second Most Important Person in MAGA
One of the most remarkable developments of the new century has been the concentration of right-wing power and adulation in two men. Donald Trump is the obvious one, the unquestioned king of the American right. But easier to miss if you’re outside the ...
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I Spent New Year’s Eve Trying to Do the FAFSA. It Didn’t Go Well.
The new, simplified version of the college student aid form was supposed to become available in December. It was, kind of, for some people.
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Let’s Rescue Book Lovers From This Online Hellscape
If you have not kept up with the latest scandal in the world of young adult publishing, it is a doozy. It involves a debut author with a lot of buzz, lies, clumsy alibis, “review bombing,” a long and sordid confession — and, of course, Goodreads ...
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Jezebel to Be Resurrected by Paste Magazine
The pioneering feminist website is being sold to Paste by G/O Media, which had shut down the site this month.
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As Coal Plants Shutter, a Chance to Redevelop ‘the Gates of Hell’
After the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company flipped the switch on its sprawling new Avon Lake site in 1926, the brick behemoth, then one of the world’s largest coal-fired power plants, helped usher in a new era of regional economic growth in ...
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Goodwill Tries to Figure Out Online Commerce
Goodwill knows it needs to figure out e-commerce. At stake, the nonprofit retailer says, is its ability to generate enough revenue to fulfill its mission: providing job opportunities for those in need. Since its founding in 1902, Goodwill’s locations ...
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Russia’s Online Censorship Has Soared 30-Fold During Ukraine War
A report from Citizen Lab laid out how much online censorship has increased on one of Russia’s biggest social media sites.
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Friends, Tourists, Countrymen, See Where Julius Caesar Was Killed
The site where the emperor was assassinated by a group of senators in 44 B.C., nestled among four ancient temples, has been opened to the public for the first time in a century.
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A Poisonous Cold War Legacy That Defies a Solution
From 1950 to 1990, the U.S. Energy Department produced an average of four nuclear bombs every day, turning them out of hastily built factories with few environmental safeguards that left behind a vast legacy of toxic radioactive waste. Nowhere were ...
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