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The Monster America Made

Kyle Rittenhouse thought he was living the story of a good guy with a gun because everything in our society told him as much. By Kaitlin Byrd

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power The Monster America Made Kyle Rittenhouse thought he was living the story of a good guy with a gun because everything in our society told him as much. By Kaitlin Byrd
vax politics The Unvaxxed Lefties Hiding in Plain Sight They insist they’re more sophisticated than your typical anti-vaxxer. Not that they’re telling anyone. By Angelina Chapin

crime By Claire Lampen and Danielle Cohen Kyle Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty After three and a half days of deliberation, a jury acquitted the teen shooter on all counts.

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my two cents How Do I Shop for the Holidays Without Wasting Money? Advice from small-business owners and retail experts on dealing with supply-chain issues. By Charlotte Cowles

how i get it done In 2019, Alicia Guevara became the first woman to serve as CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City in the organization’s 117-year history. She now presides over the city’s largest youth-mentorship program, annually matching more than 2,500 kids from across the five boroughs with “bigs” who support and advise them. Here’s how she gets it done.

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how i get it done How Cosmologist Janna Levin Makes Space for Big Ideas When she’s not teaching, writing, running the Science Studios at the Pioneer Works cultural center and captaining her digital magazine, The Broadcast. By Jane Starr Drinkard

¡hola papi! ‘I Got Ghosted. Big Time.’ The best-case scenario here is that he is merely a coward. By J.P. Brammer

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the bigger picture Sydney Mieko King’s “Entanglement” conceptualizes the body as a container of ancestral memory, featuring old family photos with plaster molds of King’s own body reflected onto them using a mirror, to create a bridge between her and her family history. Of course, the plaster molds are only reflected onto the pictures and can never really be a part of them.

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