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Wednesday
May 19, 2021
Bitcoin Keeps Falling, but Everything Is Fine Among the Crypto True Believers
As Bitcoin’s price fell by up to 30 percent, its partisans went on Clubhouse and Twitter to offer reassurances and advice to “go outside, go exercise—just don’t follow the swings.”
by Jacob Silverman
 
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His recent ruling shreds a precedent that offered criminal defendants a chance to challenge unjust sentences—and reveals how the court’s conservative bloc has no boundaries.
by Matt Ford
 
Every day, at 6:30 p.m. sharp, a siren blares through the town of Minden. For citizens of the Washoe nation, the sound carries a painful, violent memory.
by Nick Martin
 
It turns out that the tech company with a commitment to civil liberties is really just committed to profits.
by Alex Shephard
 

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Small tweaks to the meat industry can’t save Americans from a simple truth: We need to eat less meat.
by Jan Dutkiewicz
 
Luke Holland’s film “Final Account” makes a study of evasion, denial, and self-justification among living participants in Hitler’s Third Reich.
by Lidija Haas
 
The IEA was founded by Henry Kissinger. It’s not run by radicals.
by Kate Aronoff
 

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