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Culture Mar 20

The Saddening

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I recently discovered two things: a term from fabric dyeing about how to drain things of their vibrancy, and an old family letter. They are somewhat related.

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Culture Apr 03

Unfair trade

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](/post/8936/coffee-capitalism-economy-starbucks-brazil?utm_source=)[

Power Apr 02

An open letter to my dog, who won’t come out from under the couch

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Power Mar 30

There was always a way to pay for the programs we need

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](/post/8895/how-will-we-pay-for-it-is-a-stupid-question?utm_source=)[

The Future Apr 02

“We just intuit what they need”: A zookeeper describes caring for animals during the coronavirus outbreak

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](/post/8934/as-told-to-zookeeper-animals-pandemic?utm_source=)[

Culture Apr 02

Hanging on the telephone

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Power Apr 01

The Australian scientist who got magnets stuck up his nose should inspire us all

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](/post/8929/australian-magnet-guy-thanks-you-beautiful-moron?utm_source=)

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Read More

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Very online

[](/post/8877/golf-courses-are-staying-open-during-the-coronavirus-crisis)

### Well, at least there’s golf

[](/post/8893/a-good-place-c-span-archives)

### **A Good Place**: The alternate history of the C-SPAN archives

[](/post/8873/coronavirus-podcast-quarantinis-kumail-nanjiani)

### _We have already reached alarming levels of bad quarantine content_

[](/post/8792/if-youre-sick-of-reading-about-coronavirus-try-reading-about-some-pleasant-websites)

### Here are some happy websites to go to if you’re sick of reading articles about coronavirus

The outside world is scary enough right now. The internet doesn’t have to be scary, too.

[](/post/8868/celebrity-response-coronavirus-imagine-if-they-all-fucked-off)

### RuPaul is fracking at the end of the world

[](/post/8845/design-critic-the-outline-coronavirus-covid-graphics)

### Coronavirus is causing some real code-red graphic design

Must

[](/post/8871/baking-recipes-beginners-quarantine)

### 10 recipes for non-bakers with flour and time on their hands

[](/post/8782/the-sopranos-as-horror)

### Bada bing, bada boo: Everyone should rewatch ‘The Sopranos’ as horror

[](/post/8767/my-dad-voted-for-joe-biden-on-super-tuesday)

### **My dad, the Joe Biden voter**

[](/post/8899/us-healthcare-system-coronavirus-icu-beds)

### America doesn’t have a health care system

[](/post/8759/love-affairs-of-strangers-phyllis-rose-parallel-lives-esther-perel-where-should-we-begin)

[](/post/8758/vet-bills-when-to-take-on-debt)

### How much would you spend to save your pet’s life?

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The Future

It shouldn’t take a pandemic for everyone to be less disgusting

Wash your hands!!

Read More

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Culture

Now is not the time for talk of your protest vote

Voting for someone you don’t want is like getting your flu shot — you do it for everyone else.

Read More

](/post/8819/protest-vote-biden-sanders-election)

Power

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### We are all quite literally becoming more myopic

[](/post/8786/first-cow-review-we-all-get-milked)

### ‘First Cow’ is a beautiful movie about how we all get milked by the system

[](/post/8537/canada-solitary-confinement-bill-c-83)

### Did Canada really abolish solitary confinement?

[](/post/8101/vintage-baseball-association-mlb-rule-change)

[](/post/8086/body-positivity-ambivalence)

### I don’t feel positive about my body

[](/post/7882/christian-dominionist-movement-trump-administration)

### One nation under God, even if you don’t want to be

Culture

[](/post/8633/smithfield-pork-tar-heel-north-carolina-industrial-farms-lawsuits)

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### We will never find dignity in air travel

[](/post/8740/james-mitchell-alleged-architect-cia-torture-program-loves-dogs)

### When you’re the alleged architect of the CIA’s alleged torture program but you also non-allegedly love dogs

[](/post/8588/playstation-wrap-up-hours-of-gaming)

### Dear God, do I really game that much?

[](/post/8276/baby-yoda-sucks)

### gimme a break

[](/post/8258/toad-sings-chandelier-melancholiaah-interview)

### “Toad sings Chandelier” is the most memorable song of the year

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Power

Canada is fake

What Americans think of as their friendly neighbor to the north, if they think of it at all, is a scam.

Read More

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Good advice

[](/post/7809/ask-a-fuck-up-age-difference)

### AAFU: Should I end things with my much-younger partner?

[](/post/7739/ask-a-fuck-up-am-i-over-my-ex)

### AAFU: Am I over my ex?

[](/post/7633/ask-a-fuck-up-friend-crush)

### AAFU: How can I stay friends with someone who rejected me?

[](/post/7435/aafu-i-just-found-out-my-boyfriend-is-pro-life)

### AAFU: I just found out my boyfriend is pro-life

[](/post/7380/ask-a-fuck-up-is-my-wife-depressed)

### AAFU: I can’t tell if my wife is depressed or just lazy

[](/post/7557/ask-a-fuck-up-slept-with-my-friends-boyfriend)

### AAFU: I slept with my best friend’s boyfriend

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Culture

I would love to date a man who can’t read

Some of us are still trying to have some fun before we die and, I’m sorry, clever men are very rarely fun.

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#### Culture

### How a small-town Canadian museum became a shrine to Justin Bieber

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#### Culture

### We should all read more Jenny Diski

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#### Culture

### I watched too many videos about cute pigs and now I want to stop eating them

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#### Power

### Who is the world’s No. 1 bad guy?

](/post/8503/trump-iran-response-qassem-soleimani)[

#### Power

### How to be wrong

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#### Culture

### Working in the restaurant industry will haunt your dreams

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#### The Future

### If you could go to the moon for free, would you do it

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#### The Future

### I am beginning to suspect that having a massive following on YouTube does not make people happy

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#### Power

### “Queer” as in… what, exactly?

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#### The Future

### The 5G revolution that isn't

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#### Culture

### The building blocks of my sanity come from phone Tetris

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#### Power

### The history of Catholic teaching on abortion isn’t as clear cut as you think

](/post/8536/catholic-history-abortion-brigid)[

#### Culture

### This emperor has no clothes

](/post/8533/emperor-palpatine-star-wars-rise-of-skywalker)[

#### The Future

### For whom the ratio trolls

](/post/8534/twitter-replies-trolling-conversation-dynamics)

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