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Lead is bad for you. Obviously. But it also doesn't explain everything. We have, for example, the risible argument in Caroline Fraser's recent book that lead poisoning in the Northwest.
Religious leaders gather around President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, March 5, 2026. Or maybe January 2017, it's hard to say: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mjjskek7nz2c Also, do you like movies.
I know some people around here have no patience for generational politics. I get that it's limited and a shortcut from real analysis. OK. On the other hand, these polling.
Eric Alterman has an affecting essay about, among other things, the ultimately quite complex question of the relationship between an author's intentions for a text and the meaning interpreters choose.
Shorter verbatim JD Vance: "I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." After President Donald Trump clashed with Pope Leo XIV over.
America is sure making friends globally. An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US to marry her 1950s sweetheart is being held in a crowded detention centre in Louisiana.
As larger nations that have nuclear weapons attack smaller nations that don’t have nuclear weapons, conventional wisdom is that more nations will want nuclear weapons. This is less certain than.
There was a good Times story preceding the election in Hungary about how a former Orban stronghold turned against him because the evidence of his extraordinary corruption had become too.
