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Putin's reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea

Tuesday marked the third anniversary of Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin failed and paid with his life. But Russia as a whole, and Russian-occupied Crimea in particular, might have been better off had the man once known as "Putin’s

The 124 best tech deals for day three of Prime Day

It’s day three of Prime Day, folks. We’re nearly 75 percent of the way through Amazon’s four-day sales event, and unsurprisingly, many deals are still sticking around. There have been all kinds of discounts on things like TVs, smart home gadgets, chargers, headphones, and more.

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Reset: Hat

This portrait of a life reimagined is a meditation on identity, happiness and the balance between freedom and conformity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

They Fought Their Abusers. They Were Imprisoned for It.

In 2019, I began a large-scale reporting project: I sent out surveys to 10,000 people incarcerated in the United States in women’s prisons on murder or manslaughter charges. I was trying to understand the scale of “criminalized survival,” as it’s been termed: wherein a

The Prairieland Verdicts Are a National Emergency

It’s rare for a judge to acknowledge that they are handing down a prison sentence for political reasons. But that is precisely what chief district judge Reed O’Connor stated from the bench in a North Texas federal courtroom this week, during the sentencing of eight defendants

Grave Error

You were always funnier than most, so I’m waiting for this joke to land. When I hear the phrase “grave error,” I think of you being lifted out of the ground & your mother loving you better. I think of your tombstone hitting your stepdad over the head. Grave error: the words