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MercuryNews.com 

Bridge: Sept. 6, 2024

“My regular partnership consists of two people,” a reader’s letter states. “One never does anything right, and the other is my husband.” My long-suffering fan was today’s West in a duplicate game at her club. She led the queen of hearts against four spades. “Dummy’s king won,” my fan writes, “and declarer next led a […]

Archdaily.com 

Twin Houses / Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

Our project at Nærsnes, located 20 kilometers southwest of Oslo, comprises two distinct residences, designed to accommodate a son and his father, each providing independent living spaces while maintaining a sense of privacy.

Vox 

Is this algorithm driving your rent higher?

Today, algorithms rule everything around us. They serve us entertaining, or at least addictive, content on social media. They try to suss out which emails in our overstuffed inboxes might be most important, and which ones are spam. They act as matchmakers for our love lives. Increasingly, though, algorithms have also been deployed by companies, […]

The New Republic 

The Overdose Crisis No One Wants to Talk About

Years after it was declared a public health emergency, the overdose crisis continues to impact the nation in profoundly tragic ways. In 2023, more than 107,000 people in the United States died of a drug-related overdose. For people aged 18–45, the leading cause of death may be fentanyl-related drug overdose; each week, dozens of teens die of an overdose across the country. Overdose death rates have increased for Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native Americans. Families from rural West Virginia to... Читать дальше...

The New Republic 

Project 2025 Should Haunt Donald Trump Every Day Until the Election

When the Heritage Foundation published Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise in April 2023, the organization and its allies were fired up and optimistic. Feeling brash, even. Donald Trump was unbowed, and MAGA unrepentant. Indictments, trials, convictions rolled off him like a drop of water on a NASCAR hot rod windshield at Pocono Raceway in July. So when the foundation released the 920-page policy book for his next administration, a shocking road map to the Republic of Gilead... Читать дальше...

The New Republic 

Danzy Senna’s Trick Mirror

No one has more fun with racial terminology than Danzy Senna. In her 2007 short story “Resemblance,” the N-word—as in the politically correct referent to the racial slur—drives a hilarious Who’s on First?–style gag. “Some white kids called their black substitute teacher an ‘N-word,’” a husband tells his wife. “They called the teacher a nigger? What’s the world coming to?” she responds. No, the husband clarifies. “They called him an N-word.” “I don’t understand,” she says. “Literally,” he explains. Читать дальше...

Christianity Today  

Bangladeshi Christians and Hindus Advocate for a Secular Country

Amid a spike in violence against religious minorities in Bangladesh, a national council of Buddhists, Hindus and Christians is renewing a campaign for the Muslim-majority South Asian nation to remove Islam as the state religion.  In mid-July, student-led protests demanding reform of the country’s job quota system turned violent, culminating in the collapse of former Read more...

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Christianity Today  

Take Me Out to Something Bigger Than a Ballgame

In 1929, a Kansas preacher named Charles Sheldon had to get something off his chest. Best known as the author of In His Steps (1896)—a novel that encouraged Christians to ask, “What would Jesus do?”—Sheldon reflected on a recent experience during a stormy winter night in Topeka. Most of the town was shut down that Read more...

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Christianity Today  

Boomers: Serve Like Your Whole Life Is Ahead of You

Not long ago, I visited my 99-year-old father and 97-year-old mother. My dad had just passed his driver’s test again, and a year before that, he published yet another book. He told me he wants to take up painting again. Then, with a mischievous look in his eye, my dad turned to me, a 60-something Read more...

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