They Wanted Me for My Blackness. Then the Calls Stopped.
The New Republicby King Kenney6 Sept 2026
For a little while there, I became very interesting. Not more accomplished, so far as I could tell, and certainly not more experienced.
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top 81%Helen Help Me: Juice That’s Worth the Squeeze
The New Yorkerby Helen Rosner6 Sept 2026
My partner and I moved in together recently, and she was horrified to learn that I cook with bottled citrus juice—you know, the little plastic lemons and limes that are on the grocery shelf near...
The America That 9/11 Made
The New Yorkerby Jill Lepore6 Sept 2026
I was jammed into an elevator in Minneapolis this summer, heading for the fiftieth floor, up like a shot, when someone tapped my shoulder. I wiggled in place, craned my neck around.
“Ode to Being Born with Teeth and Sharpening Them Every Day”
The New Yorkerby Barbara Hamby6 Sept 2026
If you like surprises, being born has to be the best, one minute swimming in nothing, and the next popping out into a hot late July day in New Orleans like a gumbo of sweat and bad news, because...
A Political Operative on the Verge of Self-Deportation
The New Yorkerby Jesús Rodríguez6 Sept 2026
One recent Sunday in August, Daysi González addressed a crowd of about seventy people in a sterile conference room in New York’s financial district.
“New Shoes,” by Hisham Matar
The New Yorkerby Hisham Matar6 Sept 2026
All of a sudden, with no reason or warning, my brother began to hear from friends he had introduced me to or others we still had in common, those few I had somehow retained over the twelve years...
Hisham Matar on the Outsider in London
The New Yorkerby Cressida Leyshon6 Sept 2026
The narrator of “New Shoes” is a man who left his home in Cairo when he was eighteen, and, after four years living and working in various places in Italy and France, has been in London for eight...
Why China Is the Bogeyman Data Center Enthusiasts Just Can't Quit
Wiredby Molly Taft6 Sept 2026
Welcome to the first edition of Power Play! From now until the midterms, senior writer Molly Taft will be sharing their thoughts every Sunday on this political season’s hottest issue: data centers.
U.S. envoys Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Kyiv after peace talks in Moscow
NBC Newsby Chantal Da Silva6 Sept 2026
President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, a day after meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss plans...
Indonesia volcano eruption cancels hundreds of flights in major airport hub
CBS News6 Sept 2026
A volcano eruption in Indonesia on Sunday has forced the cancellation of all flights at the capital city's airport as volcanic ash drifted across the western parts of the country.
Farmers Are Going Broke Amid Rising Gas Prices, While the Ag Secretary Profits Off Them - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Georgina Gustin6 Sept 2026
As farmers grapple with soaring diesel and fertilizer prices and the Department of Agriculture yanks support for cheaper, renewable forms of energy, the agency’s chief, Brooke Rollins, is carrying...
Elevated Levels of Lead Surround Local Oregon Airports - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Claire Barber6 Sept 2026
For years health officials have held that there is no safe level of lead exposure for humans. Even low levels can cause irreversible cognitive decline in children.
Domination/Subordination Dynamics: Five Foundational Books Challenging Illegitimate Authority - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Robert Jensen6 Sept 2026
Many of the books that shaped my work as a professor, author, and activist came into my life during my first two years of graduate school (1988-90), the most exciting period of concentrated...
Indonesia’s most dangerous fires are burning underground
ScienceDaily6 Sept 2026
Indonesia’s most dangerous fires are burning underground - Date: - September 6, 2026 - Source: - NASA Earth Observatory - Summary: - Indonesia’s dangerous peat fires are surging early in the 2026...
AI can now control fusion plasma faster than humans can react
ScienceDaily6 Sept 2026
AI can now control fusion plasma faster than humans can react A new Princeton AI system can control fusion plasma in milliseconds and even predict dangerous instabilities before they happen.
Indigenous knowledge helps reveal the ties between reefs and mangroves
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu6 Sept 2026
- A scientific collaboration between Australian scientists and First Nations Bardi Jawi rangers and elders has highlighted how fish species rely on the connectivity of reef and mangrove ecosystems.
Scientists find a weak spot in one of the deadliest brain cancers
ScienceDaily6 Sept 2026
Scientists find a weak spot in one of the deadliest brain cancers - Date: - September 6, 2026 - Source: - Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center - Summary: - Researchers may have found a new...
U.K.'s Nigel Farage said he "wasn't listening" during donation scandal conversation filmed covertly
CBS Newsby Duarte Dias6 Sept 2026
Nigel Farage, the firebrand leader of the U.K.'s Reform party, downplayed his involvement in a following an undercover investigation where a journalist posed as a wealthy American's son who wanted...
Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding
The Marginalianby Maria Popova6 Sept 2026
Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding By Maria Popova “An experience makes its appearance only when it is being...
Clock controversy allows Michigan Wolverines to avoid massive upset against Western Michigan
FOX Newsby Matt Reigle6 Sept 2026
We just passed the 19th anniversary of Michigan's shocking upset loss to Appalachian State that opened their 2007 season.