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It built infrastructure at home and invested abroad in real estate and financial markets through the world’s first modern sovereign-wealth fund.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned around one-fourth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what officials called the largest blaze recorded on the island in modern history.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
While “Is God Is” makes no overt references to modern politics or social mores, Harris’ writing is in constant conversation with our uniquely infernal times.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
That sensitivity has made muon g−2 one of the most closely studied measurements in modern physics.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Holding a cup of tea that she’d brewed with a modern tea bag instead of the loose-leaves way my mother had at home, looking out the window like a page from a magazine.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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"Ad Power," "Without Commercials," and "What's Wrong with Advertising"
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Words to Describe a Place
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President Obama's second inaugural address
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