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Aug

Note: Weather report: Harga

Weather report: Klåvudden Naturreservat, Hårga, Sweden. A breezy day among the Scots pines at the Klåvudden Naturreservat outside Hårga on
29
Aug

Note: The rise and fall of violent crime in America

The rise and fall of violent crime in America. What goes up doesn’t always come down. In the 1960s,
29
Aug

Note: ‘Along the Banks of Rivers’

111 MHz: ‘Along the Banks of Rivers.’ From the mid-1990s, here’s Chicago’s Tortoise, off their album Millions Now
29
Aug
Shadows and fog

Shadows and fog

Why is violent crime down in the U.S.? Tracey Meares on what’s happening, what Americans think is happening, and how much anyone actually knows about it at all.
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28
Aug

Note: It’s the data, stupid

It’s the data, stupid. In a Washington, D.C., courtroom on August 5, District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that
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27
Aug

Note: New sway for the nationalist right in Europe

New sway for the nationalist right in Europe. Across the continent in June and July, far-right parties kept doing better
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27
Aug

Note: ‘Bonneville Park 4’

111 MHz: ‘Bonneville Park 4.’ Here we go in a contemporary classical direction with Devin Maxwell’s Timebending—with Christine
27
Aug
‘An existential question’

‘An existential question’

What does the recent success of the far right at the polls mean for Europe? Matthias Matthijs on the continent’s new political mainstream.
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26
Aug

Note: The paranoid style in American politics (2024)

The paranoid style in American politics (2024). Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the U.S. presidential race last
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23
Aug

‘The Sentinel State’

The Sentinel State. Chinese society has undergone radical, at times tumultuous, change since Mao Zedong established the communist People’s
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