The Human Beat
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The Cost of War vs. the Cost of Peace: What We Buy With $38 Billion — A Reckoning
We need to talk about what we’re purchasing. What $38 Billion Actually Bought $38 billion. That’s what MilitarySpend Defense Economics Research tells us this latest conflict with Iran has cost so far—and…
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The America We Still Believe In
We need to talk about what’s happening to us.Is this the America we still believe in? Not in the abstract way politicians prefer, where problems become talking points and suffering becomes statistics.…
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The Rearview Mirror Is Not a Decoration: A Plea for Road Awareness
Road awareness driving is a lost art in America. There I am, Thursday morning, Interstate 95, trying to pass a Subaru Outback doing exactly 63 miles per hour in the left lane.…
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Turkey Legs and Traffic Jams: A Survival Guide to Festival Season
The first warm Saturday in June, I found myself wedged between a woman carrying three funnel cakes and a man in a Viking helmet at the Riverside County Fair. Neither seemed aware…
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The Ozone Is Healing — And Science Just Proved It
The ozone hole is closing. Not might be closing, not showing encouraging signs—is closing. And for once, we can say with 95 percent statistical confidence that it’s closing because we, collectively, as…
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America Was Always Great — But We Keep Forgetting What That Means
America was always great — but have we forgotten what made it so? There’s a phrase that’s been rattling around our politics for nearly a decade now, and it rests on a…
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The Fun Side of the Island Is Waiting for Us
Here's what I know to be true: We're tired. Bone-tired of the anger. Exhausted from the constant churn of outrage, the daily feed of cruelty, the way hate has become the loudest…
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Runway Rebellion: Why Fashion Week’s Playing Dress-Up While the Streets Steal the Show
Street style fashion trends are taking over from the catwalks. Darlings, let me tell you what’s happening on the nation’s catwalks right now, and more importantly, what’s *actually* happening on the streets…
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Darlings, the Derby Delivered: Where Juleps Meet Genius and Hats Commit to the Bit
Listen, I’ve survived Paris Fashion Week without air conditioning and the Met Gala stairs in six-inch Louboutins, but *nothing*—and I mean nothing—compares to the glorious chaos of Churchill Downs on the first…