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I’ve Spent 5 Days With the Pixel 8a
Shortly after the Pixel 8a was announced, we looked through all of the comments that were made about the phone and noticed that most people said the same thing – the Pixel 8a seems nice, but the with its $499 price and all of the regular discounts Google is known to offer, the Pixel 8 … Continued Read the original post: I’ve Spent 5 Days With the Pixel 8a
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Why I spent two years investigating a notorious mass shooting
Ten years ago, a 22-year-old murdered six college students in a suicidal rampage near Santa Barbara, California. Those students were Weihan Wang, Cheng Hong, George Chen, Katherine Cooper, Veronika Weiss, and Christopher Martinez. Many others were injured and traumatized in the attack. It was a horrific event that has, in some ways, been poorly understood by the […]
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I spent years studying American communism. Here’s what I learned
I was struck by the mystery of why so many intelligent and admirable people remained so loyal for so long to a fundamentally flawed movementI’ll leave it to future historians to puzzle out the reasons why, but in the second decade of the 21st century, in the unlikely setting of the most thoroughly capitalist country in world history, large numbers of Americans, mostly young, displayed a new interest in socialist ideas, values and policy proposals, and in turn in the often neglected history of...