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Top Highlight How to Start a Blog that Changes Your Life - Nat Eliason nateliason.com A good heuristic for this kind of article is, if you're thinking "ehhh maybe I shouldn't write about that" then you should probably write about it. Most people are playing it safe with their content. Have an opinion and write something more interesting. Save Most Popular Friday Jul 24, 2020 The Four Quadrants of Conformism paulgraham.com July 2020 One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degreeand aggressiveness of their conformism. Imagine a Cartesian coordinatesystem whose horizontal axis runs from conventional-mi Save Thursday Jul 23, 2020 "Facebook Is Hurting People At Scale": Mark Zuckerberg's Employees Reckon With The Social Network They've Built buzzfeednews.com As the US heads toward a crucial and contentious presidential election, the world's largest social network is facing an unprecedented cultural crisis. On July 1, Max Wang , a Boston-based software eng Save Wednesday Jul 22, 2020 Donald Trump Is Devouring His Country newrepublic.com It's not nearly the same thing as getting used to it, but there is by now an identifiable rhythm to the Trump presidency. That rhythm is jittery, chaotic, and atonal, just one squashed-flat brown note Save Monday Jul 20, 2020 How Long Does COVID-19 Immunity Last? theatlantic.com Getty / The Atlantic T hey were the most depressing headlines I'd read all year. And that's saying a lot. " Immunity to COVID-19 Could Be Lost in Months ," The Guardian declared last week, drawing on Save Sunday Jul 19, 2020 Inside Trump's Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus nytimes.com The roots of the nation's current inability to control the pandemic can be traced to mid-April, when the White House embraced overly rosy projections to proclaim victory and move on. President Trump s Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2020 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 22717 · Oakland, CA 94609

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Top Highlight Resignation Letter — Bari Weiss bariweiss.com Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isnt a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else. Save Most Popular Thursday Jul 16, 2020 The true story of the heartthrob prince of Qatar and his time at USC latimes.com Los Angeles has long enjoyed a reputation as a playground for the rich, but the handsome teenage prince who arrived nine years ago operated on a different level. He came from the Persian Gulf nation o Save Wednesday Jul 15, 2020 Orthodox Privilege paulgraham.com July 2020 There has been a lot of talk about privilege lately. Although theconcept is overused, there is something to it, and in particularto the idea that privilege makes you blind — that you can't s Save Tuesday Jul 14, 2020 Resignation Letter — Bari Weiss bariweiss.com Dear A.G., It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times. I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringin Save Monday Jul 13, 2020 'He Is and Always Will Be a Terrified Little Boy' politico.com Magazine Mary Trump has not indicted her uncle. She has indicted the whole family. And that could give it a "seismic imprint." Mary Trump and her book. 07/13/2020 04:30 AM EDT Michael Kruse is a senio Save Sunday Jul 12, 2020 The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic theatlantic.com Sean Gardner / Getty Members of Heaven's Gate, a religious cult, believed that as the Hale-Bopp comet passed by Earth in 1997, a spaceship would be traveling in its wake—ready to take true believers a Save Saturday Jul 11, 2020 Portland Place couple who confronted protesters have a long history of not backing down stltoday.com Subscribe for $3 for 3 months Homeowners Mark and Patricia McCloskey stand in front their house on Portland Place as they confront protesters marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson's house on June 2 Save Friday Jul 10, 2020 Opinion | It's 2022. What Does Life Look Like? nytimes.com It's 2022. What Does Life Look Like? The pandemic could shape the world, much as World War II and the Great Depression did. Mr. Leonhardt writes The Morning newsletter. It's 2022, and the coronavirus Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2020 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 22717 · Oakland, CA 94609

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Top Highlight The Road to Self-Renewal medium.com Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account. Save Most Popular Friday Jul 10, 2020 The Cost of the Evangelical Betrayal theatlantic.com Chip Somodevilla / Getty The closest thing social conservatives and evangelical supporters of President Donald Trump had to a conversation stopper, when pressed about their support for a president who Save Wednesday Jul 8, 2020 Kanye West Says He's Done With Trump—Opens Up About White House Bid, Damaging Biden And Everything In Between forbes.com Kanye West's Fourth of July declaration, via Tweet, that he was running for president lit the internet on fire, even as pundits were trying to discern how serious he was. Over the course of four rambl Save Tuesday Jul 7, 2020 A Letter on Justice and Open Debate | Harper's Magazine harpers.org Adjust Share July 7, 2020 The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine's October issue. We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org Our cultural institutions are facing a Save Monday Jul 6, 2020 Is Anyone Watching Quibi? vulture.com Emmy Insider The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on July 13. Illustration: Vulture and Photos Courtesy of Quibi Last year, Sc Save Saturday Jul 4, 2020 Kimberly Guilfoyle, Top Fund-Raising Official for Trump Campaign, Tests Positive for Coronavirus nytimes.com She is the third person in proximity of President Trump known to have contracted the virus. Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of President Trump's eldest son and a top fund-raising official for the T Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2020 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 22717 · Oakland, CA 94609

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Sign up for Instapaper Premium today and get your first month free! Learn More Most Popular Thursday Jul 2, 2020 Do Americans Understand How Badly They're Doing? theatlantic.com The Atlantic I returned to Paris with my family three months after President Emmanuel Macron had ordered one of the world's most aggressive national quarantines, and one month after France had begun t Save Wednesday Jul 1, 2020 Opinion | Why Does Trump Put Russia First? nytimes.com Why Does Trump Put Russia First? It's exceedingly difficult to believe that no one told the president about the intelligence on Russian efforts to harm Americans in Afghanistan. Ms. Rice is a former n Save Tuesday Jun 30, 2020 Working the Refs Worked: 'How Facebook Wrote Its Rules to Accommodate Trump' daringfireball.net Elizabeth Dwoskin, Craig Timberg, and Tony Romm, reporting for The Washington Post in a remarkable story that takes a while to get to the juicy parts : The document, which is previously unreported and Save Monday Jun 29, 2020 Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans 'The_Donald' Subreddit nytimes.com The influential pro-Trump community broke the rules on harassment and targeting, said Reddit, which also banned other groups. "The_Donald" subreddit, now banned by Reddit, is home to more than 790,000 Save Sunday Jun 28, 2020 Trump admits it: He's losing politico.com Amid a mountain of bad polling and stark warnings from allies, the president has acknowledged his reelection woes to allies. In the time since his Tulsa rally, President Donald Trump has grudgingly co Save Saturday Jun 27, 2020 U.S. Must Release Children From Family Detention Centers, Judge Rules nytimes.com The order, which cited the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, applies to children held in the nation's three family detention centers for more than 20 days. Some immigrants seeking asylum were deta Save

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