20 Short Novels To Stay Up All Night Reading. What We Don’t Want to Know.

More Than 1,700 Congressmen Once Enslaved Black People. This Is Who They Were, and How They Shaped the Nation.

Julie Zauzmer Weil, Adrian Blanco, and Leo Dominguez • Washington Post

The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents.

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Marvel’s Wastelanders: Hawkeye Podcast

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Forty years ago, the villains of the world rose up and killed all the heroes. Well, all but one of the Avengers, Hawkeye (Stephen Lang).

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A Neglected California City Reinvents Itself With Electric Cars — And Plots a Road Map for the Nation

Evan Halper • Los Angeles Times

Getting low-income communities to transition to electric cars is a key climate challenge for California and the nation. A rural city is paving the way.

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Anna Marie Tendler Turns the Lens on Herself

Emily Gould • Harper’s Bazaar

What happens when the good-natured wife from a famous stand-up routine gets divorced, embraces her art, and goes viral on TikTok?

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20 Short Novels To Stay Up All Night Reading

Emily Temple • Literary Hub

Unputdownable books you can finish in bed tonight.

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Five Nutrition Goals That Are Better Than Weight Loss

Isobel Whitcomb • Popular Science

These tricks are more sustainable than restricting food—and healthier, too.

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These Are the Video Game Studios Leading the Charge for a Four-Day Workweek

Lewis Gordon • The Verge

Some game companies are spearheading the idea that employees should work less rather than more.

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We’re Going to Talk About ‘Bruno,’ Yes, Yes, Yes

Ashley Spencer • The New York Times

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from “Encanto” is a surprise chart topper and TikTok darling. Here’s how Disney created its biggest smash since “Let It Go.”

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Why Are Some Zoomers So Wistful For the ‘80s?

Ashley Reese • Jezebel

For a generation that has come of age in the clutches of covid and curated feeds, the '80s represent analog freedom and fun.

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What We Don’t Want to Know

Shayla Love • Vice

Do you want to know what you’ll get for Christmas? A movie spoiler? When you’ll die? The study of deliberate ignorance reveals the topics people want to remain in the dark about.

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