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Zelensky Learned the Wrong Lesson From Trump
Trump withdrew from the fight against kleptocracy, and other countries have absorbed that fact.
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âA managerial Mephistophelesâ: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos
The Amazon founderâs relentless quest for âcustomer ecstasyâ made him one of the worldâs richest people â now heâs looking to the unlimited resources of space. Is he the genius our age of consumerism deserves?
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Iâm 22 and I Just Watched the Original Gossip Girl for the First Time. Here Were My Thoughts
Connivery, thievery, treachery, infidelity, romance, deceit. Are all of theseâŠthe characteristics of a Shakespearean play? Perhaps a soap opera? Not quiteâtry a mid-aughts show about a group of preppy high schoolers whose favorite accessories are thousand-dollar designer shoes and candy-colored leggings. Iâm talking, of course, about the original Gossip Girl.
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Kendrick Lamar and the Mantle of Black Genius
Kendrick Lamar has pushed the pop landscape toward jazz and soul sounds and made space for more radical forms of Blackness in entertainment.
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Edinburgh Universityâs âskull roomâ highlights its complicated history with racist science
Skulls were collected from all over the world because of some academicsâ fascination with phrenology, the discredited belief that skull shape denoted intelligence
