Thirteen seasons why

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More than half a million displaced Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza. / Al Jazeera

Kenyans ranked as the most optimistic people on the planet in 2002—an overview of their hope ever since. / Africa Is a Country

No survivors are expected after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter near Washington DC. / BBC News

See also: A journalist's eyewitness account of the crash. / X

A series of orders against the trans community "paints a grim picture of what lies ahead." / Erin in the Morning

Larry Bartels: When popular grievances are used as a pretext for bad policy, it's politicians, not the citizenry, who are culpable. / Inside Story

An "elder millennial" battled Traump fans through TikTok comments and loved it, until it took up too much time. / Bustle

Related: A new parlor game, "who goes MAGA?" / The Sword & the Sandwich

"Challenge trials," in which people volunteer to get sick, are on the rise since the pandemic. / The New York Times [+]

"The story of modern-day nicotine isn’t a sexy one." Some notes on the rising tide of Zyn users. / GQ

Google searches for "no buy challenge" are up 40% year-over-year. Meanwhile, some brief interviews with closet organizers for the wealthy. / The Wall Street Journal [+], The Cut

What is it like to run a made-in-the-USA clothing company right now? "Everything is your own headache." / Outside

Unrelated: How to hack a satellite. / ccc.de

A civilian aircraft becomes the first to break the sound barrier. / The Washington Post [+]

Twenty teams of humanoid robots will compete against actual humans in an upcoming half marathon in Beijing. / dezeen

Studies are mixed on whether or not Americans desire urban sprawl. / Climate Connections

Some notes from regular visits to see Lee Krasner's "The Seasons," painted after the death of her husband Jackson Pollock. / Critical Thinking

Paul Krugman explains why he left the New York Times. / The Contrarian

Edmund White's new memoir, about 70 years of sex and lust, is said to be mostly melancholic. / Slate

See also: Excerpt from a Japanese memoir about a cat. / The Paris Review


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