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Team Trump eats the press

White House press corps is now mostly "content creators" delighted to be there, who prefer gossip to news

Review: Charles Fort's Underrated Influence

The eccentric writer cast a long shadow, leaving a mark not only on the world of Bigfoot hunters and UFO buffs but in literature and radical politics.

It’s all the media’s fault

It’s all the media’s fault

We’re a consolidated lazy miasma of ignorance – and the government is to blame for that

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Among the Trolls by Marianna Spring review – into the cesspit of online hatred

An unflinching exploration of conspiracy theories and their knock-on effects also makes heroic attempts to understand the people behind them

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Will Navalny's death break MAGA spell?

The Russian dissident's apparent murder may yet lead a handful of the Trump faithful back to sanity

The curious case of the missing column

Many thanks to readers who expressed concern about the non-appearance of PostScript last Sunday. Some feared Crutch might have been under the weather or had even departed for the Great Typewriter in the Sky. Others thought I had fled the scene in a bid to escape Songkran, which in retrospect…

After the midterms, get ready for the antics

If Republicans take over the House of Representatives — as normally happens during off-year contests — all they’re really going to do over the next couple of years is put on a show. A Fox News-themed extravaganza.

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50 years ago, an artist convincingly exhibited a fake Iron Age civilization – with invented maps, music and artifacts

50 years ago, an artist convincingly exhibited a fake Iron Age civilization – with invented maps, music and artifacts

Invented civilizations are usually thought of as the stuff of sci-fi novels and video games, not museums.

The Conversation

Can Democrats seize the momentum?

Can Democrats seize the momentum?

Headlines of the last two months should give Democrats a fighting chance in the midterms. Do they know how to win?

Let's spare a few words for 'Silent Cal' Coolidge on July 4, his 150th birthday

Let's spare a few words for 'Silent Cal' Coolidge on July 4, his 150th birthday

A woman sitting next to President Calvin Coolidge at a dinner party once told him she had made a bet that she could get him to say more than two words.

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