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What is Mubi? A Streaming Alternative to Netflix, Hulu and More.

We highlight one of the lesser-known places to discover great movies.

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World

Taylor Swift Needs to Become Other People

The biggest cultural news of the month is that a lot of people are kind of “meh” about Taylor Swift’s…

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World

Why Are We Gambling With America’s Future?

Over the past few decades, in a surge of bipartisan national self-confidence, the federal government has borrowed a lot of…

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What Would the Economy Look Like Under a Second Trump Term?

Speculating about how the economy would perform under a second Donald Trump presidency normalizes the candidacy of a deeply flawed…

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World

Is the Internet the Enemy of Progress?

It’s unusual when you find a strong dose of pessimism about the future of technological progress highlighted by one of…

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Business

What to Know About China’s Export Dominance

From cars to solar panels to furniture, China is using lavish bank lending and enormous investments in robotics to cement…

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Arts

On ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ Taylor Swift Could Use an Editor

Over 16 songs (and a second LP), the pop superstar litigates her recent romances. But the themes, and familiar sonic…

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World

Tripling the World’s Nuclear Energy Capacity Is a Fantasy

World leaders are not unaware of the nuclear industry’s long history of failing to deliver on its promises, or of…

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World

Mount Ruang Erupts in Indonesia, Spewing Lava Thousands of Feet Into the Sky

Hundreds of earthquakes were detected in the weeks preceding the eruption of the volcano in North Sulawesi province. Hundreds of…

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Travel

Americans Are More Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda, Senator Warns

Senator Mark Warner, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said the United States was more susceptible to Russian influence operations…

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