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Saturday
September 11, 2021
The 33-Year-Old Tour Guide Exposing the Absurdity of the California Recall
Adam Papagan’s campaign for California governor is a joke. But so’s the idea that you can truly compete if you aren’t rich.
by Jennifer Swann
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How Is the Media Still Screwing Up Covid Stories?
A dubiously sourced account that confirmed many liberals’ assumptions about rural Americans taking horse medicine was too good to check.
by Alex Shephard
The Radical Honesty of Biden’s Vaccine Plan
At long last, the White House is acknowledging that America can’t afford to respect personal choices in a pandemic.
by Melody Schreiber
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Impeachment: American Crime Story
Has an Unlikely Main Character
Rather than focus on Bill Clinton or Monica Lewinsky, the show makes Linda Tripp the key to understanding the tangled and toxic politics of the late 1990s.
by David Klion
It’s Good That Elizabeth Holmes Failed
The Silicon Valley model of disruption won’t fix health care—it only creates the opportunity for a select few to profit off what’s broken.
by Natalie Shure
From the Archives:
Against Productivity in a Pandemic
Why are we being told—by bosses, by fitness apps, by ourselves—to optimize this “new” time to get things done?
by Nick Martin
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