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Exeunt Omnes
Shakespeare inside a Kentucky prison, telecom companies profiting from incarcerated families, Byron Allen buying BuzzFeed, and the war is punishing the…
May 15
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Ethan Ward
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When Language Stops Naming Things
As reading weakens and AI writing spreads, public language grows less precise about harm and responsibility.
May 11
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Ethan Ward
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Wendell Pierce Is Not Done Yet
The actor has spent 40 years carrying the stories of the dead. His next role may be the one that explains why.
May 4
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Ethan Ward
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His Face on Your Passport
Trump is redesigning your passport, the Supreme Court just killed the Voting Rights Act, and the Michael Jackson biopic exposes a racial double standard…
May 1
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Ethan Ward
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April 2026
Salary for Two
I did the math. The math needs a roommate — or a lover.
Apr 27
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Ethan Ward
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Gentrified Shoplifting
The microlooting debate has a bodycam rebuttal, Emma Grede's memoir is dividing Black women on TikTok, and the Strait of Hormuz is coming for your…
Apr 24
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Ethan Ward
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Lego Videos From the Revolutionary Guard
A regime that would execute me is speaking to my community through my own culture. An algorithm made the introduction.
Apr 20
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Ethan Ward
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Mr. Explosive
Iran's propaganda in Lego, a CEO's manifesto for firing 4,000 people, and why tax season was designed to stay miserable.
Apr 17
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Ethan Ward
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OpenAI Built a Safety Board. Then It Disappeared.
A blockbuster AI villain, a New Yorker investigation, and the institutions that keep turning danger into theater.
Apr 13
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Ethan Ward
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What I've Taken — No. 5
Brandy's memoir challenges decades of inherited narrative. Plus Meta's encryption reversal, Black journalists in Baltimore, and what Southern beauty…
Apr 10
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Ethan Ward
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LONGITUDE: 6.2603° W
Dublin, Ireland taught me the difference between an expat and an immigrant.
Apr 6
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Ethan Ward
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What I’ve Taken — No. 4
A recruitment pipeline to the front lines, a middle class that was policy before it was identity, and a songwriter who traded lyrics for a loom.
Apr 3
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Ethan Ward
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