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Role-Play With Your Friends as Influencers Dying to Go Viral
The horror video game Content Warning, a surprise hit, lets players microdose as momentary celebrities on the fictional website SpookTube.
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Laura Linney on the Singer Who Reminds Her of Beginnings
“The sound of his voice reminds me of the beginnings of things,” the actress said. “The first time you fell…
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‘The Keep Going Songs’ Review: Vexed by Grief and Worried About the Planet
Abigail and Shaun Bengson muse on death in their latest work, but its looseness makes it hard to get a…
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Grief Broke Marlon Wayans. Comedy Put Him Back Together.
It’s not easy to build a long and lucrative career by making comedy that some people might be tempted to…
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The Deep, Tangled Roots of American Illiberalism
In a recent interview with Time, Donald Trump promised a second term of authoritarian power grabs, administrative cronyism, mass deportations…
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The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t Know
Six days after winning election to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did what so many young progressives do while visiting the nation’s…
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One Photo That Captures the Loss in Gaza
An American surgeon who volunteered in Gaza sent me a photo that sears me with its glimpse of overwhelming grief:…
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Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age?
Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.
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Watch the Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Reach Its Peak
The event will be active when the moon is just a sliver in the sky, but it is less easy…
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City College, Against Its Nature, Asks Police to End Campus Protest
The public college based in Harlem has a long history of radical politics and activism.
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