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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 17 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and…
Surrounded by virtual cliffs and a cascading waterfall, dragon riders on Roblox’s massive online gaming platform immerse themselves in a memorable scene from “How to Train Your Dragon.” In…
A Möbius strip, a looped surface with a single continuous side, is often formed by cutting a long, thin piece of paper and joining its ends with a half twist. The strip has no beginning…
When Ford returned to his gallery, he entered Orlik’s name into Artnet, the art-price database. His search yielded barely any results. According to Pietruszka, Orlik had exhibited his work…
What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an unremarkable activity, essentially unchanged since the advent of the modern publishing…
US Customs and Border Protection experienced a sharp rise in reports about potential tariff evasion after President Donald Trump abruptly imposed new duties on over 100 countries earlier…
The “one size” in this instance is temperature. Under the rule, when the mercury rises above 80 degrees, employers are required to offer workers drinking water and rest breaks, and when it…
Crisis pregnancy centers are back at the Supreme Court. The justices on Monday agreed to consider whether New Jersey can investigate anti-abortion clinics that seek to dissuade women from…
If you live in the United States, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were six months ago. So is your family. So are your friends and neighbors. Virtually all of the most important…
But a lot of the fiscal responsibility stuff that the Dems are most comfortable harping on seems frankly pedestrian in comparison to a massive expansion of Trump’s police—nay,…
After the horrific assassination of a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota, President Trump at first correctly stressed that such violence is absolutely intolerable. But then he…
It’s impossible to discuss “The Life of Chuck” without revealing the ending, because that’s where the movie starts. It’s built backward, as is the Stephen King novella on which it’s based.…
Will Iowa Senator Joni Enst call it quits after her humiliating defense of Donald Trump’s budget bill? Several Republican aides, consultants, and strategists told The Wall Street Journal…
Vance Boelter allegedly shot and killed Democratic Minnesota state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Saturday. Hours later, conservatives were twisting Boelter’s political…
Other filings suggested a recession could come even earlier. The community bank Hanmi Bank, under its holding company Hanmi Financial Corp., said in an SEC filing that “the combination of…
Late in his life, McKinley reconsidered protectionism. He was reëlected in 1900, and by his second Administration he felt that the United States should greet globalization by entering…
Tanaka Terumi was thirteen years old when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, in August, 1945. The blast knocked him unconscious. After he came to, he and his mother…
When Jenny Nguyen was in her twenties, working as a chef in her home town of Portland, Oregon, she became a regular at pickup basketball games organized by a group of “lawyers, plumbers,…
Let’s say there’s another pandemic. This time, a lethal disease spreads through contact with other people’s fecal matter. Precision toilet cleaning becomes a matter of life and death. In…
On a sunny April afternoon in Seattle, around 40 activists gathered at the Pine Box, a beer and pizza bar in the sometimes scruffy Capitol Hill neighborhood. The group had reserved a side…
Warner Bros. Pictures is betting big on the Indian market with a new strategic partnership that will see the studio’s iconic titles get the Bollywood treatment. The studio has inked an…
Thai Airways International won court approval to exit a debt restructuring programme, paving the way for resumption of trading in its stocks after a four-year gap. The Central Bankruptcy…
Singapore’s competition watchdog has raised concerns with Agoda over several design features on its Singapore website and mobile application that were found to be potentially misleading. A…
On his first day as chief executive officer, Stefan Bollinger told staff at Julius Baer Group that they should not be afraid to speak up and reach out to him if there was anything that…
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