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  1. 26 minutes ago

    Did you see the one about the Nutcracker come to life? on the enduring weirdness of the made-for-TV holiday movie:

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  2. 56 minutes ago

    Members of the new House majority plan to introduce legislation mandating background checks on all gun sales. They don’t expect it to pass. But they want to make a point, writes :

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  3. 1 hour ago

    The Atlantic's readers wrote eloquently and passionately about a wide range of news events, stories, and complicated ideas this year. Here's a look back at some of what they had to say:

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    The environmental NGO world that has driven the last 20 years of climate policy... really isn’t in the driver’s seat on the Green New Deal. And—relatedly—you can’t understand the Green New Deal without understanding the fight for the modern Dem party.

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  5. 2 hours ago

    Murders appear to have dropped in America's largest cities, yet gun deaths have still gone up. explains why:

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    Todd Purdum's meditation on Christmas in L.A. is beautiful:

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  7. 2 hours ago

    The armored ankylosaurs had convoluted nasal passages that looked like roller-coaster tracks or Krazy Straws. explains why:

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    6 hours ago

    So many great podcasts on this list! A few personal faves (some on this list, some not): Errthang What's Good With Stretch and Bobbito Edge of Fame Uncivil United States of Anxiety The Nod Code Switch Serial S3

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  9. 3 hours ago

    Chief Justice John Roberts is responsible for the Obamacare mess out of Texas, argues University of Wisconsin Law School professor David Schwartz.

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    Very proud that the little World Cup show I hosted this year got 37th on The Atlantic’s 50 best podcasts list for 2018. It was such a fun show to work on.

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  11. 4 hours ago

    First Nations groups in British Columbia have undertaken a daring plan to save Canada's small population of woodland caribou from the dangers of oil-and-gas development. reports:

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    Read enough columns about the Mattis resignation? Perhaps not, if you missed Eliot Cohen's:

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  13. 4 hours ago

    Yes, it's yet another revelation that Facebook sloppily sent your data to other companies, but this time, it wasn't some small, shady company, but other titans of technology, writes .

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  14. 4 hours ago

    Chief Justice John Roberts is responsible for the Obamacare mess out of Texas, argues University of Wisconsin Law School professor David Schwartz.

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    Christian pluralism sees the city of man as inherently broken and fallen from sin, which, in turn, means that politics must be acknowledged as a site of uncertainty, rather than certainty, from ⁦⁩:

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  16. 5 hours ago

    At least 222 people have been reportedly killed along the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, and another 800 injured late Saturday night by a tsunami, likely triggered by an eruption of Anak Krakatau volcano. See photos here, by :

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    SJW’s approach to racism seems logical. Antiracism becomes what faith is to Protestants, one smokes out heretics, w focus on thought rather than policy. But this ends up being about the id, impulse, hatred over reflection. Not what Douglass or King meant

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  18. 5 hours ago

    "Regardless of their faith, a small but growing number of citizens can make the conscious decision to resist making the political wholly theological," proposes :

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  19. 6 hours ago

    Chimpanzees, orangutans, and humans have all passed the "mirror test" of self-awareness, writes . What does it mean if a fish can, too?

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  20. 6 hours ago

    Photos of the week

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