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Archives for June 2014
This video shows all flights taken over a 24 hour period in August 2013. Each flight is animated by a blue dot that travels across the atlantic.
Ezra Klein talks to Lawrence Lessig about his plan to get big money out of politics.
War is dominating the news right now. But that makes it easy to miss that there is a lot less of it today. Zack Beauchamp explains in two and a half minutes.
Illnesses we previously eradicated are coming back with a vengeance.
Charles Wright will be America’s next poet laureate, but what even is a poet laureate? What do they do?
Ezra Klein talks with Taylor Branch, who compares the NCAA to a plantation system
Joanna Rakoff is a novelist and the author of the recently published memoir My Salinger Year. The book chronicles Rakoff’s move to New York in 1996 as a young twenty-something to work for J. D. Salinger’s literary agent.
Silly protectionist doctors, colds are for nurses
“We have 50 years of kind of trying to fix 350 years of really immoral wrong.”
Ezra Klein spoke at length with Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of “The Case for Reparations” to talk about his journalism, his argument, and the possibility of change.