Meet the new bellwether state: North Carolina, where a strong progressive movement rallies faith, environmental, and minority groups together for Moral Mondays, but the state legislature is solidly gerrymandered red. According to the New York Times, "There aren’t many states more important this November than North Carolina, a rapidly changing state crucial to Donald J. Trump’s hopes of winning the White House and to Democrats’ hopes of winning the Senate."
With the stakes extra high, the state NAACP just sued local election boards, alleging that thousands of voters were expunged from eligible lists. Clinton leads early voting, but fewer African-Americans have turned out so far than expected based on 2012 numbers.
6hTo reach their goal, experts agree that New Zealand will need a massive technological breakthrough—one that could involve never-before-used techniques like using gene-editing technologies to target animals’ fertility or creating animal detectors that can “sniff out” rats just like a dog can.
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"Adolescence was a term that fit the times." For much of the world, 20th century America was defined by its adolescents, those carefree teens with the privilege not to work. But it was never natural, and now its influence recedes.
7hThe creepiest part of the whole thing was that Jane realized that the “ghost” had stopped appearing to her around the time that Jim went missing.
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Why not purchase some lovely air from the Rockies, provided in "a convenient can" ($23.99 for "80 breaths of fresh air"). Or perhaps you'd prefer a jar of Welsh air, with "a morning dew feel to it, but enriched with vibrant and flavoursome undertones." A 12-pack of Australia's finest bottled air gets you Bondi Beach and Tasmania. All to service a growing market of people who live in polluted cities.
Some great covers from Action comics, the UK series from the '70s that killed itself with ultraviolence.
You've heard that shark attacks swing elections? Fortunately—or, unfortunately, depending on how cynical we're feeling in the morning—it's not true.
7hInstability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don’t constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.
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"The Bronx is home to 1.5 million people, two hundred thousand public-school students, eleven colleges and universities," and no more bookstore.
What it’s like to be 14 in a new school, a new city away from home—and the wrong ethnicity in a divided country.
Each year, the Japanese government expects dozens of people to die from eating ill-prepared blowfish, and yet the dish remains a delicacy.
Relive the action of the 12th Annual Morning News Tournament of Books—or any of the previous 11—presented by Field Notes.
