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Adam Serwer: “The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so...

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Are We Still Loving Pluribus?

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The data is clear: congestion pricing in NYC has been a “huge...

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Infinite Ball Drop: what if the Times Square NYE ball started dropping...

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A message from our editor-in-chief

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A Year in Blue and Green

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Giving Our Bodies Back to the Earth: The Rise of Natural Burial

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Salvador Dalí’s Surreal Jewelry Designs: From Throbbing Heart Necklaces to Medusa Brooches

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When Friends Become Lovers: H.G. Wells on Navigating Blurring Boundaries

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Santa Tracker Shows Sleigh Stopped For 40 Minutes Outside Old Girlfriend’s House....

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Art-World Giants We Lost in 2025

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Required Reading

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A View From the Easel

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Playing Santa Does Strange Things to a Man. What It Did to Bob Rutan Was Even Stranger.

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Merry Christmas From Hyperallergic

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All bananas are the same

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Discover the First Depiction of Santa Claus (and Its Origins in Civil War Propaganda)

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Odd-Shaped Cookie Cutters Spark Community and Creativity

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Muppet Versions of Xmas Movie Posters

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Reminder: NASA’s holiday yule log fireplace video is delightful — it’s a...

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Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean

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Children’s game: pau de sebo

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Our Powerless 20 List Is Here

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On Walking

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Popular new ideas

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Discover 20 Historical Christmas Recipes: Fruitcake, Gingerbread, Figgy Pudding & More

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The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2025 Edition

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Bookshop’s Bestselling Nonfiction Books of 2025

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The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore. “To truly understand living systems...

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Faith Ringgold's Story Quilts Get to the Heart of Being Human

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Allspice is a single spice?! “Allspice is the dried fruit of the...

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We Asked Four AI Coding Agents to Rebuild Minesweeper… “Cloning Minesweeper isn’t...

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Wes Anderson Brings Joseph Cornell’s Studio to Life

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Happy Holidays, New York!

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The Case for a Public Social Media Platform. “What if the United...

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Hyperallergic’s Art Tarotscope for the Winter Solstice

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If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century

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Finland uses a progressive scale for speeding tickets; the fine amount is...

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How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change

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Meticulously Sculpted Books by Brian Dettmer Explore the Inner Workings of Information

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Top 10 Alternative Christmas Movie Lists: Horror, Action, Comedy & More

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Tragedy Struck Composer Irving Berlin on Christmas Day. Years Later, He Would Write One of the All-Time Holiday Classics

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The Dead Mall Society

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Incandescent anger

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Banksy’s Heartbreaking Christmas Mural

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The Life and Work of Afrobeat Creator Fela Kuti Explored by Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad

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