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We’re Committed to Brokering Peace in Ukraine; Also, We’re Invading Greenland
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I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now?
“Surely, we have emergency brakes to stop these kinds of things. Someone will intervene. I would look into who that is supposed to be exactly, but this glockenspiel isn’t going to tune itself.”
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March 24, 2025Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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March 26, 2025Excerpts from a Red-Hot Right-Wing Romance Novel
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March 18, 2025Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
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March 25, 2025The Plan to Bomb the Middle East Finally Made It Out of the Group Chat
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March 21, 2025American History Lessons Edited to Comply with Anti-DEI Standards
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March 28, 2025Although I Voted for You to Be Turned into Soup, There’s No Reason We Can’t Be Friends Before You Are Liquefied
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March 27, 2025A Letter from Believer Editor Daniel Gumbiner
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March 24, 2025Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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March 21, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: The Process: Judy Baca, Generation on Fire, 2023
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March 14, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: An Interview with Michael Smith
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March 7, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: Stuff I’ve Been Reading: Winter 2024
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March 5, 2025Short Conversations with Poets: Dong Li
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February 28, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: Resurrector: Black Square
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