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Political outsiders ascendant, the War on Terror comes home, and more from The Lever this week.

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A generation ago, the United Kingdom was a global power, @imkahloon writes. Today, the country is as poor as Mississippi. What happened?

Donald Trump’s cheap and un-American speech at midnight was as unsurprising as it was vulgar and small.

It’s been a year since this piece on home batteries becoming one of the most important tools we have for keeping the lights on during hurricanes, heat waves, and other extreme weather events was published. Since then, the case for VPPs has only gotten stronger, with more utilities than ever putting big money behind distributed batteries and virtual power plants to keep the grid stable during periods of record energy demands.

A progress report on trans-Atlantic comparisons

A Tomball farmers market pint of fat, juicy Texas blackberries becomes a quick, celebratory, flambéed dessert spooned over vanilla ice cream. This Blackberries Jubilee recipe is inspired by Chef Robert Kunce, who taught me the flambé technique when I was a teenager.

Wildfire survivors call fire-prediction markets “morally reprehensible” and worry they could increase the risk of arson.

This massive 85-inch model is highly customizable but jaw-droppingly expensive.

Eight Sleep’s Pod 5 is great at its job, but its job is also watching you sleep.

A large-scale clinical trial has shown that even long-term consumption of DHA—an omega-3 fatty acid found in abundance in oily fish—may not lead to improvements in cognitive function.

In celebration of the United States of America’s 250th birthday, we posed a simple question to some of our favorite critics, columnists and editors across the New York Times newsroom, people who write about books, movies, TV shows, science, sports, wellness and food. We aske...

A new study has succeeded in mapping, on a global scale, the fungal network that supports plant life and helps regulate our planet’s climate.

You can minimize the risk of films and shows being spoiled for you by muting comments, conversations, and keywords on various platforms.

The more often we succumb to the urgency of the moment, the more urgency we create. The next minute is probably not the last minute, but when we treat it this way, it will be soon followed by another last minute.

Trump's 250th celebration is riddled with corruption and fraud.

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Researchers from Delft University of Technology have spent more than two decades building their decentralized BitTorrent client Tribler. The software is designed to be impossible to shut down and the project itself is also going strong, as it recently secured funding up until 2032. New research focuses on decentralized digital democracy, with a self-replicating BitTorrent seedbox as an illustrative use case.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Researchers from Delft University of Technology have spent more than two decades building their decentralized BitTorrent client Tribler. The software is designed to be impossible to shut down and the project itself is also going strong, as it recently secured funding up until 2032. New research focuses on decentralized digital democracy, with a self-replicating BitTorrent seedbox as an illustrative use case.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Researchers have identified the brain circuitry that links deep sleep with the release of growth hormone, revealing how the two regulate each other. The newly discovered feedback loop helps explain why poor sleep can interfere with growth, muscle repair, fat metabolism, and brain function. Understanding this system could pave the way for new therapies for sleep disorders and diseases tied to metabolism and the brain, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.