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Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization

By Matt Ribel
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Can Democracy Include a World Beyond Humans?

By James Bridle
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When Covid Came for Provincetown

By Maryn McKenna
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A Pandemic Tragedy on Brazil’s Lago Verde

By Fábio Zuker
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The Unwritten Laws of Physics for Black Women

By Katrina Miller
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Volodymyr Zelensky on War, Technology, and the Future of Ukraine

By Geoffrey Cain
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The Multifarious Multiplexity of Taika Waititi

By Jennifer Kahn
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‘How Are They Weapons? That’s Only a Flashlight!’

By Suzanne Sataline
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Bill Gates Is So Over This Pandemic

By Steven Levy
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Paradise at the Crypto Arcade: Inside the Web3 Revolution

By Gilad Edelman
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Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise

By Vauhini Vara
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Welcome to Janelle Monáe’s Dreamworld

By Mary Retta
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The End of Alcohol

By Virginia Heffernan
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This Startup Wants to Get in Your Ears and Watch Your Brain

By Steven Levy
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A Farmer’s Quest to Beat California’s Waves of Drought and Deluge

By Susie Cagle
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The Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site

By Andy Greenberg
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A Million Little Pieces: The Race to Rebuild the World’s Reefs

By Rowan Moore Gerety
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The Deadly Cyclone That Changed the Course of the Cold War

By Scott Carney and Jason Miklian
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Is Russia’s Largest Tech Company Too Big to Fail?

By Paul Starobin
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It’s Like GPT-3, but for Code—Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws

By Clive Thompson
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The Infinite Reach of Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s Man in Washington

By Benjamin Wofford
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‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy

By Lauren Smiley
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The Internet Is Not as New as You Think

By Justin Smith-Ruiu
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Trapped in Silicon Valley’s Hidden Caste System

By Sonia Paul
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