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Paris

Heading to the Tour de France? Go to the mountains, eat local, and stay clear of the riders.

On the flatter stages, the riders fly by so fast it's a whizzing blur. Instead, opt for the mountain stages, on which the riders will likely be strung out single file in small groups and going (relatively) slower as they labor up the steep gradients. Where…

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

Protectionism

ACLU Challenges Arkansas’s Pathetic Freak-Out Over Meatless Meat

(Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images) I have come to believe that nothing engages fragile masculinity quite like veggie burgers. There’s something about performative maleness that requires the public perception of a willingness to eat flesh. Men must be “hunter…

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

New York City

‘We Lost Track of Time and Returned to the Battery Around 1 A.M.’

Dear Diary: It was Easter Sunday and I had made the 7:07 train from South Norwalk to Grand Central by the skin of my teeth. The cars were packed standing room only. I managed to find a comfortable spot where I could lean against the wall with a bit of…

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

Paris

Eight EU nations agree migrants deal, France says

Image copyrightKARPOV/SOS MEDITERRANEEImage caption Migrants making the journey often travel in poorly maintained and overcrowded vessels France says eight EU countries have agreed to share the resettlement of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean - but It…

bubmagJuly 22, 2019

New York City

How this shop buys and sells some of the rarest sneakers in the world

More icon Three evenly spaced dots forming an ellipsis: "...". Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to clos…

bubmagJuly 22, 2019

VR

Parry This

Today on Highlight Reel we have VR rudness, Mordhau parries, expert sniping in For Honor and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links bel…

bubmagJuly 22, 2019

Obamacare

Biden and Sanders, Behaving Badly

On the other side, Biden is proposing to build on Obamacare. That can sound like tinkering at the edges. But his actual plan is much bigger and better than is widely realized, with large increases in funding, a public option, and more. It would, arguably, bri…

bubmagJuly 22, 2019

Holocaust

Making Sense of Primo Levi’s Auschwitz Report

Throughout the 1990s I taught Western Civilization at Cooper Union in NYC. Every semester we read Primo Levis Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man). No doubt it is a masterpiece, not only as a Holocaust testimony but in the canon of Western literature. …

bubmagJuly 22, 2019

Holocaust

Making Sense of Primo Levi’s Auschwitz Report

Throughout the 1990s I taught Western Civilization at Cooper Union in NYC. Every semester we read Primo Levis Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man). No doubt it is a masterpiece, not only as a Holocaust testimony but in the canon of Western literature. …

bubmagJuly 22, 2019

Food Industry

A New Jersey restaurant is using its pizza boxes to help find missing pets

A pizzeria in New Jersey is attaching missing pet flyers to its pizza boxes to help reunite owners with their lost animals. John Sanfratello, owner of Angelo's Pizza in Matawan, told INSIDER that he first had the idea for the pizza box campaign when he saw…

bubmagJuly 22, 2019

Heading to the Tour de France? Go to the mountains, eat local, and stay clear of the riders.

ACLU Challenges Arkansas’s Pathetic Freak-Out Over Meatless Meat

‘We Lost Track of Time and Returned to the Battery Around 1 A.M.’

Eight EU nations agree migrants deal, France says

How this shop buys and sells some of the rarest sneakers in the world

Parry This

Biden and Sanders, Behaving Badly

Making Sense of Primo Levi’s Auschwitz Report

Making Sense of Primo Levi’s Auschwitz Report

A New Jersey restaurant is using its pizza boxes to help find missing pets

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