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- More than a hundred thousand Palestinians worked in Israel before October 7th. Most can no longer cross the border—and many are now destitute.
- Civil-rights activist Parks: four letters.
- In the past week, the Reflecting Pool, usually a backdrop to selfies and the Capitol’s dramas, has shifted to the foreground. After Donald Trump spent close to $15 million in taxpayer funds on sandblasting and resurfacing the pool in “American Flag Blue,” the project was thwarted
- Matthew Rhys on the emotional season finale of “Widow’s Bay,” his formative love for Richard Burton, and the subtle power of scarfing a whole chicken onscreen.
- Dataland is a 25,000-square-foot space, in downtown Los Angeles, that Refik Anadol calls the first museum of A.I. art. Anadol’s art has lit up the Sphere, in Las Vegas; the stage of the Grammy Awards, in L.A.; and the halls of the World Economic Forum at Davos and the United
00:00 - From the daily newsletter: how do the young Club America members see their future without the political organizer?
- Anthropic’s new A.I. tool is creating instant design clichés, Kyle Chayka writes.
- Alabama’s former biggest bookie is now working as a licensed therapist. Read Keith O’Brien’s report on Tim Pughsley’s pioneering sports-betting empire—and its downfall.
- The 32-year-old Ukrainian pilot Timur Fatkullin is using his aerobatic training to take out Russian drones. “It’s air-to-air combat, almost like World War Two,” he told Ed Caesar. “It’s a dream job.”
- How Andrew Tate built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
- This week marks a decade since the shocking referendum that saw a narrow majority of Britons vote in favor of leaving the E.U. Boris Johnson, then the mayor of London, and a leading Leave campaigner, had called on his compatriots to “take back control” from perfidious technocrats
