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- Culture & Society
- July 17, 2026
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Where the War Is Still a War
An adviser to Iran’s negotiating team recently said that Tehran should ready itself for years of “neither war, nor peace.” The phrase has become popular among Iranian political analysts trying…
- Culture & Society
- July 17, 2026
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Photos of the Week: Tall Ships, Cool Catacombs, Bastille Day
Steve Russell / Toronto Star / Getty A swimmer checks out the smoke from Northern Ontario forest fires that has the Toronto skyline shrouded in haze, as viewed from Humber…
- Culture & Society
- July 17, 2026
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The Attention-Span Class Divide
Source: YouTube Summary Several months ago, during an Oscar campaign far more memorable than the movie it was promoting, the actor Timothée Chalamet offered up an observation: “I don’t want…
- Culture & Society
- July 17, 2026
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The Odyssey Was Never About the Gods
Source: YouTube Summary If you lived in the Bronze Age and were sailing the wine-dark sea, you’d soon understand the need for gods. You don’t know about low-pressure systems or…
- Culture & Society
- July 17, 2026
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Ukraine’s Dr. Strangelove
Nations don’t always get to pick their heroes, especially not in a time of war. Most Ukrainians, given the choice, would probably not want a character like Denys Shtilerman to…
- Culture & Society
- July 17, 2026
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The Researchers Who Want Dads-to-Be to Stop Drinking
Pretty much everyone knows that women aren’t supposed to have alcohol while they’re pregnant. Even just a drink a day, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists warns, can cause…
- Culture & Society
- July 17, 2026
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Trump Has Only Terrible Choices With Iran
Here we are again: Iran is shooting at traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump is ordering retaliatory strikes, and both sides have declared the latest cease-fire agreement “over”…
- Culture & Society
- July 17, 2026
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Just Pay the NIMBYs
Just about every effort to solve America’s housing shortage runs into the iron law of NIMBY: “not in my backyard.” Whenever a development is proposed in a place where people…
- Culture & Society
- July 17, 2026
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When Did Sports Get So Loud?
Source: YouTube Summary On May 26, the New York Mets were doing terrible (generally) and really terrible (acutely). They were at the bottom of their division and down six runs…
- Culture & Society
- July 17, 2026
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Trump Still Hasn’t Found What He’s Looking For
Since President Trump returned to office a year and a half ago, he has dispatched investigators and analysts from across the U.S. intelligence community to search for evidence of foreign…
