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By Greenbarge Reporters: President Bola Tinubu has identified illegal mining as one of the major causes of terrorism in Nigeria and across Africa and called for the establishment of a
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Sean H Vanatta at Aeon/Psyche: The American economy has always relied on household borrowing. Since before the founding, the colonies had been ever short of metallic currency. Our 18th-century forebears
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Damon Linker at Notes From the Middleground: Journalists have a name for an article written and published without the necessary curatorial oversight. It’s called a notebook dump. The reporter does
The world has sadly just lost one of its most provocative and inspirational thinkers and writers. Douglas Hofstadter at Marcus on AI: I just received the very sad news about
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McKinsey research shows that carbon dioxide removal, or CDR, could play a vital role in combating hard-to-abate emissions. These emissions are considered hard to abate because they come from activities
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by Isaac Grafstein at The Free Press: What, if anything, should we do about TikTok? Is the forced sale of the fastest-growing social media platform in the world a commonsense
Benjamin Markovits at the New York Times: This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death. The most famous poet of his age (an odd phrase now) died fighting
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“A Bald Man With Glasses Knows What He’s Doing” Irshad Salim, Karachi: I was reading a piece this morning on comedian Larry David’s stoicism with baldness, beardness, glassness (wearing glasses),
JIM W. DEAN intro at The Intel Drop: I had been hoping to see Sy Hersh digging into what the back story was on the Iran retaliation attack after the
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Philip A. Goduti, Jr. in The Conversation: Less than a week after her husband’s assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, Jackie Kennedy granted an interview with esteemed political writer
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Author Haidt: Social Media is Spreading Mental Illness New York Times Book Review: Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s erudite, engaging, combative, crusading new book “The Anxious Generation” (Z) highlights what he
at Poetic Outlaws: Stanley Kunitz received numerous awards for his poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice (in 1959 and 2005). His works often explored the vital kinship between
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