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Israel has damaged more buildings in two weeks than in a year of fighting with Hezbollah.<\/a> \/ BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n

A brief history of Hezbollah, Israel, and Lebanon.<\/a> \/ Vox<\/span><\/p>\n

China cracks down on “uncivilized” puns that people use to get around censorship controls.<\/a> \/ The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the foremost American experts on fascism comes around to applying “this most toxic of labels” to Trumpism.<\/a> \/ The New York Times Magazine [+]<\/span><\/p>\n

An argument for making an “emotional hedge bet” on the presidential election—among 27 observations from a political insider.<\/a> \/ Matt's Five Points<\/span><\/p>\n

For Millennials, “wealth may have gone up, but if that's mostly housing wealth, then that's not actually making people better off.”<\/a> \/ The Washington post<\/span><\/p>\n

Housing prisoners in “containment cages” for days—standing-room only, with no toilet or sink—is a widespread and unchecked practice in Texas.<\/a> \/ Slate<\/span><\/p>\n

In the past 40 years, the number of catastrophic injuries sustained by cheerleaders is greater than those sustained by female athletes playing all other high school and college sports combined.<\/a> \/ The New York Times Magazine [+]<\/span><\/p>\n

As of 2022, only about six percent of the nation's doctors identified as Black and only seven percent as Hispanic.<\/a> \/ The Atlantic<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the trendy recreational drug “pink cocaine?” A grab bag of different drugs dyed pink that often doesn't include cocaine.<\/a> \/ The Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n

A “fruit detective” studies old paintings for produce we no longer eat.<\/a> \/ Smithsonian Magazine<\/span><\/p>\n

Photographs by Lars Tunbjörk of corporate worklife in the 1990s.<\/a> \/ Lars Tunbjörk<\/span><\/p>\n

“I don't have to tell you that posting on the internet is a weird thing to do.” Lessons learned from a 90-day course taught by a TikTok influencer.<\/a> \/ Defector<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch: A carpenter fires his nail gun in time to a band performing next door.<\/a> \/ Kottke<\/span><\/p>\n

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Israel has damaged more buildings in two weeks than in a year of fighting with Hezbollah. \/ BBC News<\/p>\n

A brief history of Hezbollah, Israel, and Lebanon. \/ Vox<\/p>\n

China cracks down on “uncivilized” puns that people use to get around censorsh…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33569,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33568\/revisions\/33569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}