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Inside the Cut-Throat World of Toddler Bike Racing
Inside the Cut-Throat World of Toddler Bike Racing
Ian Dille, Outside
As our writer cheered on his three-year-old at the Strider Cup in Texas—a merciless race replete with tears, anxiety, and elation—he had one question: Is intense competition good for the tiniest of competitors?
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When the Left Turns on Its Own
When the Left Turns on Its Own
Bari Weiss, The New York Times
Shutting down conservatives has become de rigueur. But now anti-free-speech activists are increasingly turning their ire on free-thinking progressives. Liberals shouldn’t cede the responsibility to defend free speech on college campuses to conservatives. After all, without free speech, what’s liberalism about?
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Maybe Private Russian Hackers Meddled in Election, Putin Says
Maybe Private Russian Hackers Meddled in Election, Putin Says
Andrew Higgins, The New York Times
Shifting from his previous blanket denials, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia suggested on Thursday that “patriotically minded” private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year that meddled in the United States presidential election.
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The Super-Rich Are Different: They Pay Less Tax
The Super-Rich Are Different: They Pay Less Tax
The Economist
The Swiss leaks and Panama papers open a window on the tax-dodger’s world.
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Top 20 Percent Of Americans 'Hoard The American Dream'
Top 20 Percent Of Americans ‘Hoard The American Dream’
Steve Inskeep, NPR
Many of the mechanisms actually have racist roots. So the zoning laws quite often … had racist origins. Legacy preferences are one way college admissions are rigged. Legacy preferences are genuinely extraordinary in the sense that no other country in the world does that.
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The Long, Slow, Rotten March of Progress
The Long, Slow, Rotten March of Progress
Sam Kriss, The Outline
What I learned at a tech conference in New Orleans.
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We Bought a Crack House
We Bought a Crack House
Catherine Jheon, Toronto Life
It was a crumbling Parkdale rooming house, populated by drug users and squatters and available on the cheap. We were cash-strapped, desperate to move and hemmed in by a hot market. Five years, three contractors and $1.1 million later, our home reno nightmare is finally over.
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The Education of ‘The Wire’
The Education of ‘The Wire’
Alan Siegel, The Ringer
Fifteen years after the premiere of HBO’s landmark drama, we look back at the show’s poignant examination of the American public school system and the four young actors at the center of the story.
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