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July 11, 2015

“Don’t become invisible”: My Lubavitcher mother couldn’t utter the words, but let me discover Nora Ephron and Ms. and Judy Chicago

The zeitgeist seeped through the tight seals of our Lubavitcher home in the form of Judy and Nora and Gloria








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Published on July 11, 2015 16:39

“You are not just an affair”: I fell for the world’s oldest romantic cliché — being human

I fantasized that Paris could somehow protect my love with Alexandra. Instead, I lost both the city and the woman








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Published on July 11, 2015 15:37

Innovators are killing us: Instead of reinventing housing or transit, they bring us companies like Airbnb and Uber

Innovation leaves structures intact, developing new processes to monetize the dysfunctional systems we already have








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Published on July 11, 2015 14:04

“The Confederate flag still flies overseas”: Endless war, domestic racism and the forgotten history of the stars and bars

Before it became a pennant for right-wing backlash, the Confederate flag was a symbol of American imperialism








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Published on July 11, 2015 04:01

“It was always based on a flat lie”: Why neo-Confederates are finally losing the war for American history

The states' rights explanation of the Civil War was always doomed, celebrated historian James Loewen tells Salon








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Published on July 11, 2015 03:30

July 10, 2015

Remember when we liked the Internet? Longing for a world without trolls, tracking and Twitter roundups

We used to go online to feel understood. A new film gets what's lost in the move from LiveJournal to "social media"








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Published on July 10, 2015 15:53

The Wimbledon we wish we could see: “SNL” directing alum brings Kit Harington and Andy Samberg together for epic tennis mockumentary

Salon talks to director Jake Szymanski about his new HBO comedy "7 Days in Hell"








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Published on July 10, 2015 15:53

The grossest “Cosby Show” episode: Cliff Huxtable makes a “secret sauce” that makes people “all huggy-buggy”

Vice posted a horrifying episode about how Cosby quells anger over strippers with his secret ingredients








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Published on July 10, 2015 14:20

Community Discussion: Will the world do enough to save the climate?

Nations are finally pledging to cut emissions, but only the result is only confusion.








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Published on July 10, 2015 14:20