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Back to SearchJumping The Gungan
Jar Jar Binks—meant to be a lovable, floppy-eared character in a Star Wars prequel—brought the heat of both of Tatooine’s suns unto the movie, the ac…
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Dead Drops, Cops, And Special Ops: The Novels Of Brad Thor
Dead Fall is the 23rd novel from the mind of Brad Thor. In it, an American performs an operation inside of Ukraine, and, for reasons of diplomatic s…
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The Bathrooms Of Loudoun County
Two years hence, a New York Times Magazine story lays out, in more detail, what really happened when a boy in a skirt assaulted a girl in the girls b…
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A Truly Deluded Trump Is A Truly Not Guilty Trump
New York Times Opinion writer David French makes the case that Jack Smith will have to prove that Donald Trump really did know he lost the election. …
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Selling Nuclear Secrets To The Soviets
Steve James, the documentary filmmaker behind Hoop Dreams is out with The Compassionate Spy, which tells the story of a young scientist named Ted Ha…
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BEST OF THE GIST: Smart People Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s 2019 interview with journalist David Robson about his then-new book The Intelligenc…
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Rudy and Lizzo, Sued As Sexists
The former Mayor of New York, whose reputation has suffered from his constant efforts to back Donald Trump at any cost, and Lizzo, widely regarded as…
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Crackpot Lawyers With Itchy Ears
Eli Merritt is political historian at Vanderbilt University, where he researches the ethics of democracy, and he’s out with a new book, Disunion Amo…
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The Sincerity Of Trump's Lies
Benjamin Wittes, Editor-in-Chief of Lawfare breaks down the latest—and the most serious—indictment against Donald Trump, including the question of ho…
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Artificial Intelligence Turns Suicidal And Possibly Genocidal
Comedy writer Simon Rich got access to a powerful AI tool called Davinci-002, which is not available to the public. He and friends trained the AI to …
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