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      LL Cool J says he won’t perform at Philadelphia’s July Fourth festival in support of workers strike

      PHILADELPHIA – Rapper LL Cool J says he will not perform at a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in support of a strike...

      Soldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses

      Kim, an aircraft mechanic, joined the military in 2019, at age 18. She and her mother had struggled to survive, even living in their...

      America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life

      In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow...

      A Philosophy That Sees ‘Women as Doers’

      This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.When a woman’s...

      The Nation the Army Built

      In July 1775, General George Washington rode into Cambridge, Massachusetts, to lead an army of 16,000. These men, Washington announced, were “all the Troops...

      What we’re reading: Rest of World’s summer book list

      Memoir Big Tech Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism  By Sarah-Wynn Williams In her review of this book, former Meta employee Sabhanaz Rashid...

      EPA Punishes Employees Who Sent Zeldin “Declaration of Dissent”

      On Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency placed at least 139 employees on administrative leave after they signed and publicized a “declaration of dissent” against...

      Ah, Exactly What the Founders Wanted!

      Not unlike a Supreme Court justice, I have previously hallucinated that the Founders were offering me their insight into the present moment, and I...

      Brazil wants to be a sustainable data center hub. Environmentalists are skeptical

      In May, Brazil’s Finance Minister Fernando Haddad flew to the U.S. to meet with executives from Amazon, Google, Nvidia, and Meta. His agenda: to...

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