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Tentjes in bosjes en onder fly-overs van het spoor, een parallelle wereld in Amsterdam-Zuidoost: ‘Wij zijn Roma, maar we stelen niet’

Dakloze mensen: Het aantal daklozen in Nederland groeit de laatste jaren. En dat is misschien wel het meest zichtbaar in Amsterdam-Zuidoost, waar ruimte is in het vele groen en kampjes ontstaan die je...

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New York Times politicsculture
Trump Administration Accuses Berkeley Law School of Racial Discrimination (Gift Article)

The Justice and Education Departments said the school had penalized white and Asian applicants, the latest in a series of investigations into admissions at elite universities.

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Medium technologyculture
Friend or Foe?

A new AI device touted as a stand-in for human friends expands our surveillance culture and arrives with serious privacy issues. Plus, NYC

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New York Times sportsculture
NFL Week 1 picks against the spread: Take the Rams Down Under (but don’t crown them yet) (Gift Article)

Don't worry about the Rams' late arrival in Australia. Meanwhile, we see the Bills, Chiefs, Bengals and Bears all getting upset in Week 1.

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Medium politicsculture
The Fading-Out Electoral Vortex

Blowing up immigration myths on a psychedelic L Street ride

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Medium culture
Coyote Vs. Acme: We Are All Sisyphus

One can imagine Wile E. Coyote happy

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New York Times sportsculturelegal
Lucien Smith, Art-World Star Whose Career Abruptly Turned, Dies at 37 (Gift Article)

A phenom in his 20s, he became the poster child for Zombie Formalism before abandoning the gallery frenzy for Montauk.

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NRC cultureopinionworld
Column | Ik keek naar ON zoals je naar wandelende takken in een terrarium kunt kijken

Ik was het deze week eens met Arjen Lubach, die het op zijn beurt weer eens was met Angela de Jong. Verwarrend. Aanleiding was het Hitler-filmpje van de met bloedspoed ontslagen Joost Niemöller, hoofd...

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Medium opinionculture
So, I’m Crazy?

Apparently, I’m crazy.

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Defector culture
Should I Be Worried That My Kid Hasn't Found A Best Friend? | Defector

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family life. Have a question? Email us at minordilemmas@defector.com. This week, Ju...

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New York Times culturefood
Panzanella Recipe • 5★

At the height of tomato season, for every perfectly ripe, taut and juicy specimen there’s an overripe, oozing counterpart not far away. The Tuscan bread salad called panzanella is the perfect place to use those sad, soft tomatoes that are still rich in flavor.

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VVD-fractievoorzitter Brekelmans hekelt stakende vakbonden in lezing: ‘Kijk eens verder dan je protestbord lang is’

Ov-staking: Ruben Brekelmans, fractievoorzitter van de VVD, was in zijn Binnenhoflezing kritisch op de stakende vakbonden die niet willen onderhandelen. Maar D66, VVD en CDA zijn het zelf ook oneens, ...

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New York Times culture
Tippet Rise: Where Music and Art Meet Postcard Mountain Views (Gift Article)

Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana offers concerts in surroundings that make you feel as if you’re listening inside the land rather than around it.

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New York Times culturesportsentertainment
A Cartoonist, Interrupted, Stumbles on Surprises at the Frick (Gift Article)

What connects a favorite Aimee Mann song, a classic memoir and a Vermeer painting in the Frick Collection? The answer was there all along.

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Medium culture
A Single, Transitioned Trans Woman Goes Shopping for a Male

An even exchange: they gawk at my breasts while I examine their crotches

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Medium entertainmenttechnologyculture
Improv at the Courthouse

Jury Duty Hysterics

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Medium culture
Things I Wish Every Psychologist Would Know About Transgender People

Red flags transgender clients should watch for in therapy

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New York Times culture
‘Liberation,’ ‘Purpose’ and 39 More Shows to See in the U.S. This Fall (Gift Article)

This season is rich with sharp productions, like Bess Wohl’s and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Pulitzer winners, Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary!” and the hip-hop musical “Mexodus.”

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New York Times entertainmentculture
Film and TV Portrayals of A.I. Go Beyond Science Fiction (Gift Article)

Plots involving some kind of artificial intelligence are even part of soap operas. Here’s how they’ve evolved over the decades.

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New York Times culture
How the World’s Longest-Running Musical Finally Made It to Broadway (Gift Article)

“The Fantasticks” ran for decades in Greenwich Village. Now, in time for its Broadway debut, it gets a gender makeover.

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Medium sportsentertainmentculture
Take a Bow: The Power of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

Reviewing the kawaii career of an artist who continues to deliver the most eclectic and positive expressions of Pop Art

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Medium cultureentertainment
9/11 and the Great Dash

I Didn’t Know I Was Grieving September 11th — Until I stood before a piece of steel from the World Trade Center.

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New York Times healthculture
How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them. (Gift Article)

Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits.

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New York Times culturesportsentertainment
Book Review: ‘The Pirate Queen,’ by Ariel Lawhon (Gift Article)

In a new novel, the author Ariel Lawhon revives a 16th-century sea captain previously pushed to the margins.

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New York Times entertainmenttechnologyculture
Saved on 9/11, by the Man in the Red Bandanna (Gift Article)

Welles Crowther — who rescued at least 10 people at ground zero and became known as the man with the red handkerchief — is the subject of a new documentary.

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Ernst Kuipers: ‘Zo veel IC-bedden openhouden als Duitsland heeft geen zin’

In een moment van reflectie verwijst Ernst Kuipers naar de actualiteit. De oud-ziekenhuisbestuurder en oud-minister van Volksgezondheid (D66) in het kabinet-Rutte IV: „Als ik de PISA-resultaten zie en kijk hoe sterk de leesvaardigheid onder jongeren is gedaald – en deskundigen koppelen die ontwikkeling aan de coronatijd – besef ik opnieuw hoe ingrijpend de maatregelen zijn geweest. We hebben nog…

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Medium culturebusinesstransportation
Haiku: Frozen Jellyfish

It’s been too hot here lately, so…

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New York Times sportsculture
New Oilers coach Mike Babcock on his controversial style: ‘Sometimes the truth is hard’

Babcock was introduced by Edmonton in a news conference on Tuesday, more than six years after his last NHL game.

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NRC cultureopinionworld
Heeft de geit het weer gedaan? Het bewijs is broodmager dat omwonenden longontstekingen krijgen door de geitenhouderij

Volksgezondheid: Zijn geiten opnieuw een gezondheidsrisico, na de eerdere uitbraak van Q-koorts? Zorgen ze voor longontstekingen? Onderzoek dat dat zou aantonen, wordt „volledig mislukt” genoemd.

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Bloomberg culture
New Respect in the Land of the Rising Yen

The rest of the world may need to learn to do without cheap Japanese funding.

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NRC culturepolitics
Oasis klinkt ongekend krachtig in documentaire ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’, maar er blijft veel onbesproken

Documentaire: Na een jarenlange ruzie stonden Noel en Liam Gallagher in 2025 weer samen op het podium. De reünieconcerten van Oasis waren sensationeel, toont de muziekdocumentaire ‘Don’t Look Back in ...

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NRC worldculturehealth
AfD wist in Saksen-Anhalt vooral niet-stemmers te mobiliseren

Duitse deelstaatverkiezingen: De ruime verkiezingszege van de AfD in de Oost-Duitse deelstaat Saksen-Anhalt legt trends bloot binnen het electoraat. Welke nieuwe kiezersgroepen wist de uiterst rechtse...

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Medium culture
Subverting the Lost Cause Narrative in Frank Yerby’s “Benton’s Row”

Whenever I go to a used bookstore, I always check to see if they have any books by Frank Yerby, mainly because I research his work and I…

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NRC cultureworld
Van Museum Voorlinden tot Fenix en Hartwig: het privémuseum of ‘miljonairsmuseum’ is in opkomst. Wat verklaart het succes?

Particuliere musea: Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar bestaat deze week tien jaar, maar het succesvolle museum is allerminst het enige museum dat door particuliere vermogenden is gebouwd. Komende maanden...

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Medium culture
Peace & Rage Coexisting

How to Empower Women and Stop Binary Thinking

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Medium opiniontechnologyculture
The State of Freelance Writing

47 Freelance Writing Statistics in a Periodic Table.

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New York Times culture
How A.I. Tokens Work (Gift Article)

As large language models become more advanced, they use ever more resources. Who will foot the bill?

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The Atlantic cultureentertainment
A Great Novel Becomes a Bad Show

Don’t watch “The Shards.” Go read the book instead.

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New York Times culture
Why Real Madrid’s pressing against Inter was good… and bad (Gift Article)

Madrid's off-the-ball work led to their two goals against Inter. It also left them exposed on multiple occasions...

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National Observer sciencetransportationculture
In some cities, trees are contributing to ozone pollution, study finds

New research has found that urban vegetation — trees lining streets, as well as those in parks, urban forests and other green infrastructure — generated more than 50 per cent of the chemical compounds...

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New York Times foodculturebusiness
Caramelized Onion Galette Recipe • 4★

This rich, autumnal galette takes its inspiration from the flavors of French onion soup. Seasoned with Gruyère and lots of cracked black pepper, the galette dough takes the place of the crostini, and the caramelized onion filling is fortified with beef broth and sherry.

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Medium culture
Farming IS War

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Because it keeps being true.

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New York Times legalculture
Getting fired is old news for Lane Kiffin. Getting expelled from the SEC would be a first (Gift Article)

The Kiffin-SEC feud has reached a new level after the SEC said it will meet to consider kicking LSU out of the conference.

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New York Times entertainmentculture
‘Buddy’ Review: Cuddle Monster (Gift Article)

Barney but Satan: That’s the macabre world Casper Kelly posits in his horror comedy about an adorable but monstrous children’s television unicorn.

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New York Times culture
He’s Seen Images of 9/11 From Just About Every Angle. Except This One. (Gift Article)

The 9/11 completist community wants to know and see everything. The Holy Grail? Pictures from inside the twin towers.

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NRC cultureopinionworld
Een Friese stuurman doet er door de staking niet drie maar acht uur over om thuis te komen: ‘Taxi te duur’

„Vergeet niet uit te checken”, zegt een handhaver tegen een Amerikaans stel bij de poortjes op Utrecht Centraal. „Ik denk niet dat we de OV-kaart nog nodig hebben”, reageert Georgiy Roykhman uit Los A...

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Medium culture
Mixed Feelings Arise for Me on September 11

My first daughter was born on September 10, 2001

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New York Times culture
Aaron Judge is back: Here’s how he’s different from everyone else (Gift Article)

There has never been anybody like him. Not now. Not ever. So what makes Judge so unique? We explain.

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The Atlantic culture
What September 11 Took From Me

There are some things time doesn’t heal.

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New York Times culture
‘A Pyramid of Hate’: Why Racial and Religious Attacks Are Rising in Britain (Gift Article)

Islamophobic, antisemitic and racist crimes are being fueled by online disinformation, global instability and divisive political rhetoric, experts say.

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