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Good morning. 🌤 Today, a new book about the opioid crisis reports that PAIN Sackler activists were be

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Good morning. 🌤 Today, a new book about the opioid crisis reports that PAIN Sackler activists were being followed by investigators, the limits of colorization by AI, and archeologists have found the former home of Harriet Tubman.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Anand Patwardhan, India’s Most Daring Filmmaker “I make the films I want to make, about issues I see around me in India.” Steve Macfarlane

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