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What Matter to Ellen Lutwak

Ellen Lutwak reflects on a life shaped by wordplay, swimming, connection, curiosity, family, unfinished ideas, and the people and experiences that make it all meaningful.

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PELE International Football Rankings ⚽

PELE International Football Rankings ⚽

What happens when you blend 150+ years of soccer history with player market values into a brand-new model? Rankings, ratings and match projections for all 211 FIFA teams.

Remarkable People
Audio • Guy Kawasaki

Defending Democracy with Jocelyn Benson

As Jocelyn Benson's campaign for Michigan governor continues to gain momentum—including a recent endorsement from Pete Buttigieg—this is the perfect time to revisit a conversation about courage, leadership, and defending democracy!

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European Wax Center’s New Identity Is Smooth in More Ways Than One

Yard NYC gives European Wax Center a smoother, more expressive identity that uses contrasting typography to balance expertise, confidence, and personality.

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Over the past few centuries, humans have decimated bird...

Over the past few centuries, humans have decimated bird populations — you can hear it in the thinning of the dawn chorus — but it’s difficult to notice sometimes because of shifting baseline syndrome.

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Left to self-police, AI companies weaken safety commitments, study finds

The leading artificial intelligence companies have quietly backed away from some safety protocols, according to a new third-party review.

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CNN and CNBC promote gambling to make a cheap buck

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Some newsrooms are making money from deals with prediction markets. It will only serve to further destroy the public's trust in news.

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How Kalshi infects the news

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CNN and CNBC are pushing Kalshi on viewers but not telling them the whole story.

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Why Is Florida Executing So Many Prisoners?

"In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace."

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Tesla launches startup challenge to scale Giga Berlin battery cells

Tesla is opening the doors of its Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg to outside startups through a new “Cell Giga Challenge,” inviting them to pilot technologies inside its live battery cell production line.

The program comes as Tesla ramps 4680 cell output at Grünheide toward a planned 18 GWh of annual capacity, one of the largest cell operations in Europe.

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The red planes are coming! Royal Air Force to perform State House flyover Thursday

The United Kingdom's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, nicknamed the Red Arrows, is scheduled to perform a special flyover of the State House on Thursday afternoon. The aerial show is "in honour of the 250th anniversary of US independence" from Great Britain.

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Is It Mitch McConnell Or Your Own Sense Of Possibility That Has Been Dead For Weeks

Is It Mitch McConnell Or Your Own Sense Of Possibility That Has Been Dead For Weeks
Nobody has seen Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell in public in a while. Is that because the 84-year-old former majority leader is dead? Well now that is an interesting question. What is death? A man who does not pursue his dreams dies every day. Mitch McConnell's dream was to...

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Anthropic’s Claude Cowork now keeps working when you close your laptop

Illustration of hand closing a laptop with an OFF toggle speech bubble.

Since its launch, Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s agentic tool for knowledge workers, has run only on the desktop, leaving it tethered to

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Midtown Tower Had Safety Issues Before Emergency Evacuation, Records Show

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, flanked by Fire and Buildings officials speaks outside a Midtown building at risk of collapse

City officials received complaints about unsafe conditions at the Midtown tower at risk of collapse as far back as spring of 2025, The City Reporter has learned, as officials scramble to secure the area spanning a busy stretch of Manhattan near Grand Central Terminal. The office tower at 235 E. 42nd Street was undergoing construction […]

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Elie Mystal on the Supreme Court & the Constitution

Elie Mystal, justice correspondent and columnist for The Nation magazine and bestselling author of Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America (The New Press, 2025), looks back at the recently concluded Supreme Court term.

Photo: This photo taken on June 30, 2026 shows the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order denying birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants or temporary residents, upholding birthright citizenship. (Photo by Li Rui/Xinhua via Getty Images)

 


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What the DSA's Popularity Means for Climate Policy

Robinson Meyer, founding executive editor of Heatmap, talks about the DSA's evolving relationship to the Green New Deal and climate policy in general, as its members keep winning elections in big cities.

Photo: WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 21: U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks to members of the media as she arrives for the last votes of the week at the U.S. Capitol Building on May 21, 2026 in Washington, DC. The House of Representatives has concluded its final votes before the Memorial Day recess. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

 


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Today's Inequality & NYC's Post-1970s Recovery

Mason Williams, historian and associate professor at Williams College, and the author of City of Fortune: Inequality and the Making of Contemporary New York (W.W. Norton, 2026), argues that New York's recovery from the 1970s fiscal crisis ushered in an era of deepening inequality.

Photo: Pedestrians on the sidewalk pass jewelry stores (Midtown Jewelers and Diamond Center) on West 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, March 1979. (Photo by Peter Keegan/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

 


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Why Do You Identify As Queer?

Inspired by Matthew Vines' op-ed in The New York Times titled "I'm Gay, Not Queer. It Matters," LGBTQ listeners share why they identify with the label "queer" and talk about their relationship to the term.

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Plato’s Allegory Of The Crab

Plato’s Allegory Of The Crab
Sometime in the late spring or early summer of 2022, a baby three-spot swimming crab was drifting in the open ocean, as baby crabs often do. The crab came across a white plastic bottle that once held Shaoxing wine—a fact both incomprehensible and immaterial to the crab—and w...