Articles by mitchbob
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Why You Should Embrace Rejection (theguardian.com)

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Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned (theguardian.com)

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Clay Shirky: Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up (nytimes.com)

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Google Co-Founder Seeds Billionaire Political Effort Amid Wealth Tax Debate (nytimes.com)

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How to Bring Back the American Dream (nytimes.com)

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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong (theatlantic.com)

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They Covered the Sky, and Then... (2014) (nybooks.com)

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Hard Times in the Delta as Farmers Consider Letting Crops Rot (nytimes.com)

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The Most Important Question Is 'What If I'm Wrong?' (nytimes.com)

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Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Maestro and Utopian, in 2026 (sammatey.substack.com)

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Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One (stripe.com)

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How to Kill a Fish (newyorker.com)

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Mutual aid and asking people what they need (gomakethings.com)

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Panoply of the Weird (nybooks.com)

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World's richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026 (theguardian.com)

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George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You (nytimes.com)

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The Theory That Gives Trump a Blank Check for Aggression (nytimes.com)

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OpenAI Musk lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion can go to trial (theguardian.com)

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Google and AI startup to settle lawsuits alleging chatbots led to teen suicide (theguardian.com)

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ProSocial World (prosocial.world)

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Silicon Valley Plots Against Ro Khanna After His Support for a Wealth Tax (nytimes.com)

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I Study Friendship. Here's How You Make Lasting Friends. (nytimes.com)

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The Brazen Illegality of Trump's Venezuela Operation (newyorker.com)

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'Move fast, break stuff': how tech bros became Hollywood's go-to baddie in 2025 (theguardian.com)

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The Science of Resolutions (2019) (newyorker.com)

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A Mexican Couple in California Plans to Self-Deport–and Leave Their Kids Behind (newyorker.com)

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Trump Has Renamed the Kennedy Center, but a Satirist Owns the URL (nytimes.com)

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Billionaires added record $2.2T in wealth in 2025 (theguardian.com)

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The Oil Company Drilled. The Government Slaughtered. Who Is Guilty? (nytimes.com)

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The Lure of a Rising Asian Metropolis? No Traffic. (nytimes.com)

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The Dream of the Universal Library (asteriskmag.com)

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AI skeptic DeSantis: 'We have to reject that with every fiber of our being' (politico.com)

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Would You Kill for a Job? (nytimes.com)

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Can Apple's AirPod Translation Get You Through Tokyo? We Tested It. (nytimes.com)

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The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer (joanwestenberg.com)

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How Effective Is Protesting? (theguardian.com)

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Is the Dictionary Done For? (newyorker.com)

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Reputation (FDA's Version) (asteriskmag.com)

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What If Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction? (newyorker.com)

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The Race to Build the World's Best Friend (nytimes.com)

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Trump's social media venture strikes $6B merger deal with fusion power company (politico.com)

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Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing? (newyorker.com)

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King of Cannibal Island (lrb.co.uk)

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Europe Is in Decline. Good. (nytimes.com)

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Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich (nytimes.com)

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Thin desires are eating life (joanwestenberg.com)

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Ideas aren't getting harder to find (asteriskmag.com)

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The US Supreme Court's TikTok ruling is a scandal (theguardian.com)

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Is A.I. Actually a Bubble? (newyorker.com)

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The Year in Trump Cashing In (newyorker.com)

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The Scramble for the Seafloor (nybooks.com)

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The Mischievous Ex-Bankers Behind "Industry" (newyorker.com)

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A welcome pit stop: the US college using parking lots to help unhoused students (theguardian.com)

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Netflix faces consumer class-action lawsuit over $72B Warner Bros deal (theguardian.com)

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What Makes Goethe So Special? (newyorker.com)

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Prefiguration (gomakethings.com)

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How to Leave the U.S.A. (newyorker.com)

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Undaunted Mind: The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin (lrb.co.uk)

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A Very Big Fight over a Very Small Language (newyorker.com)

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$700 for a bed? San Francisco startup plots 'sleeping pod' expansion (theguardian.com)

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Frank Gehry, the Disrupter, Opened Their Imaginations (nytimes.com)

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What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year (newyorker.com)

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Don't Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives. (nytimes.com)

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Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com)

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A Different Type of Dementia Is Changing What's Known About Cognitive Decline (nytimes.com)

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N.Y. Law Could Set Stage for A.I. Regulation's Next 'Big Battleground' (nytimes.com)

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I'm a Concert Pianist. This Is Why I Seek Imperfection. (nytimes.com)

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A.I.'s Anti-A.I. Marketing Strategy (nytimes.com)

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Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life (lrb.co.uk)

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A Development Economist Returns to What He Left Behind (newyorker.com)

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What Does "Capitalism" Really Mean, Anyway? (newyorker.com)

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One of the Greatest Polar-Bear Hunters Confronts a Vanishing World (newyorker.com)

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A Stand Against Coal Could Push Oakland Toward Bankruptcy (nytimes.com)

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The Housing Strategy That Has California NIMBYs in a Corner (nytimes.com)

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The Most Dangerous Genre (newyorker.com)

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A Startup's Bid to Dim the Sun (newyorker.com)

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A City Is Broke. Can a Billionaires' Urbanist Dream Offer It a Last Chance? (nytimes.com)

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This Is No Way to Rule a Country (nytimes.com)

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Are we doomed? Review of books on depopulation and extinction (lrb.co.uk)

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Guitar Hero at 20 – how a plastic axe bridged the gap between rock generations (theguardian.com)

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Don't Eat Before Reading This (1999) (newyorker.com)

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'You Are All Terrorists': Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison (nytimes.com)

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Make Medical School Three Years (nytimes.com)

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This Is What a Good Job Looks Like (nytimes.com)

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A San Francisco Clinic Shows Promise in Treating Drug-Fueled Public Breakdowns (nytimes.com)

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Salman Rushdie's Literary Inspirations (newyorker.com)

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Up and Then Down (2014) (newyorker.com)

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'We're sick of the OnlyFans model': Porn site lets Gen Z sex workers have a life (theguardian.com)

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Can the Global Economy Be Healed? (newyorker.com)

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Return of Chinese astronauts delayed after spacecraft struck by debris (theguardian.com)

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Top US billionaires' collective wealth grew by $698B in past year – report (theguardian.com)

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What Women Really Want: Work Boundaries (nytimes.com)

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Working Past 100? In Japan, Some People Never Quit. (nytimes.com)

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A.I. Is Making Death Threats More Realistic (nytimes.com)

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Will Paramount Cancel Jon Stewart? (newyorker.com)

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Nexperia halts chip supplies to China in threat to global car production (theguardian.com)

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Scam: Inside South-East Asia's Cybercrime Compounds (lrb.co.uk)

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US Senate passes bill with Republican support to rescind Trump's Brazil tariffs (theguardian.com)

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Some People Can't See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound. (newyorker.com)

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H.P. Lovecraft: The King of Weird (1996) (nybooks.com)