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The Judy Blume Book That Scandalized a Nation
[ad_1] Living with Tom in New Mexico, Judy had not found the freedom, sexual or otherwise, that she had been after when she left…
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‘Oh My God, They’re Ruining the Show’
[ad_1] From the day it premiered, Twin Peaks had a problem. Audiences wanted to know who killed Laura Palmer; David Lynch and Mark Frost…
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‘Absolution’ Excerpt: Read the Beginning of Jeff VanderMeer’s Newest Southern Reach Book
[ad_1] But then, too, there was the assurance, the confidence, in the accounts of the biologists as remedy to allay suspicion. Because Sergeant Rocker,…
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Mapping the Marvel Universe in 6 Very Cool Charts
[ad_1] Mapping the Marvel universe is not the kind of thing one can do just by snapping their fingers. For starters, there are many…
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What Really Happened While Filming Hodor’s Fateful ‘Game of Thrones’ Scene
[ad_1] The exterior of the cave of the Three-Eyed Raven is constructed in a quarry near Ballymena, Northern Ireland—an almost perfect bowl-shaped hollow now…
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“Are You Saying No to Elon Musk?”: Scenes from the Slash-and-Burn Buyout of Twitter
[ad_1] At around 9:00 a.m. on October 27, 2022, Parag Agrawal, the CEO of Twitter, summoned his leadership team into one of the large…
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The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It
[ad_1] Moqadi Mokoena had been feeling uneasy all day. When he’d left his home on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, for his job…
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The Woman Who Engineered Donald Trump’s Rise From the Ashes of 2020
[ad_1] DeSantis told Trump and Stepien that he thought Wiles lied and leaked to the press.“Fair enough,” Stepien replied. “But you won, and so…
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As Biden and Trump Square Off in Their First Debate, Let’s Revisit Why Trump Won the 2016 Showdowns
[ad_1] Don’t worry about it, Little Marco …. Low energy …. You are the single biggest liar…. The first 2024 presidential debate is set…
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How Advertising Broke the World
[ad_1] Disclosure: Longtime journalist Steven Brill is the founder or cofounder of a number of publications and companies, including NewsGuard, where he is the…
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With ‘Lies and Weddings,’ Kevin Kwan Dives Back Into Ultrarich Drama
[ad_1] “Can they really?” Francis said, feeling sick to his stomach. All this time, he’d thought Augie was finally safe, that she had finally…
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They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War
[ad_1] The Allied soldiers who weren’t killed limped back from the defeat. It was clear now, they needed to be able to creep up…
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Correction of Errors- An excerpt from Worthy
[ad_1] “Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change.” -Jim Rohn On the outside, all was well. My family…
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This Is Where Our Game Began
[ad_1] Opening day, April 10, 1915, at Washington Park, on Third Avenue between 1st and 3rd Streets in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Tip-Tops…
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How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
[ad_1] Most alarmingly, PlanetRisk began seeing evidence of the US militaryâs own missions in the Locomotive data. Phones would appear at American military installations…
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“Get Me the F–king Tape”: How Ron DeSantis’s “Build the Wall” Ad Put Him on the Outs With Trump
[ad_1] Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump were, for the moment, great political allies. The two were even developing a friendship that, impressively, seemed to…
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The Unvarnished Story of George Santos and His Mother
[ad_1] Hanging over the whole saga of George Santos, the congressman from New York who made up almost everything, is his mother, Fatima Devolder.…
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“You’re Telling Me That Thing Is Forged?”: The Inside Story of How Trump’s “Body Guy” Tried and Failed to Order a Massive Military Withdrawal
[ad_1] The absurdity of the situation was captured in McEntee’s interview with the January 6 Committee: Q: Is it typical for the Presidential Personnel…
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Inside James Comey’s Bizarre $7M Job as a Top Hedge Fund’s In-House Inquisitor
[ad_1] As head of security, Comey reported to Dalio’s longtime deputy Greg Jensen, who seemed eager to prove that he took the protection of…