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Money

My Obsession with Buying 'Stuff' Landed Me £7,000 in Debt
I justified my expenses with "I’m anxious and I work hard, why shouldn’t I buy myself this little thing?”
Hannah Ewens
10.7.20
Photography

Inside the Crumbling Apartments of the Former Soviet Union
Photographer Alex Schoelcher captures the inhabitants of these brutalist relics.
Joseph Lew
10.7.20
Coronavirus in the White House

Stephen Miller Tested Positive for COVID-19
Miller is the latest member of Trump's inner circle to test positive for the novel coronavirus. His wife tested positive in May.
Emma Ockerman
10.6.20
Games News

China's Newest Hit Game 'Genshin Impact' Censors Any Mention of Hong Kong
The free-to-play action RPG is facing backlash for censoring mentions of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Jordan Pearson
10.6.20
Astro Guide

Daily Horoscope: October 7, 2020
The moon is in Gemini today.
Annabel Gat
10.6.20
Priorities

Trump Just Killed COVID Stimulus to Confirm Amy Coney Barrett Before the Election
Trump appears to have doomed the prospect of more $1,200 stimulus checks and a return of the $600 weekly unemployment benefit until after the election.
Emma Ockerman
10.6.20
Books

Please Leave 'Infinite Jest' Alone
The joke about a certain kind of man reading David Foster Wallace's massive 1996 novel has been done to death. Let's all agree to move on.
Rachel Pick
10.6.20
Breonna Taylor

Unreleased Footage Gives an Inside Look at the Night Breonna Taylor Died
VICE News' 22-minute documentary, largely comprised of never-before-seen footage, provides a much more complete sense of what happened.
Roberto Ferdman
10.6.20
tech-science

Supermassive Black Holes Might Really Be 'Traversable' Wormholes, Astrophysicists Suggest
“The wormholes we are considering are traversable wormholes, so theoretically spacecraft can travel through them,” said the lead author of a new study.
Becky Ferreira
10.6.20
uh oh

Trump's Brutal Week Has Left the GOP Worried About an Election Landslide
Four weeks before the election, Team Trump is running out of cash and time.
Cameron Joseph
10.6.20
prisons

'Baby Shark' Used as 'Inhuman' Punishment in County Jail, Investigation Finds
Oklahoma County jail detention officers chained incarcerated people to walls and forced them to listen to 'Baby Shark' on a loop at loud volumes for up to two hours.
Samantha Cole
10.6.20
sexual assault

Trump's Job Description Does Not Include 'Slandering Women,' E. Jean Carroll's Lawyers Argue
The Department of Justice claims Trump's denials occurred as part of his official duties as president, meaning he could be defended by government lawyers—and, by extension, with taxpayer money.
Carter Sherman
10.6.20
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