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- Sep 20, 2026
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I(RAN) YOUR GAS PRICE UP (opens the original)
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The sticker says I RAN YOUR GAS PRICE UP. Trump on it, finger out, aimed at the digits.$4.47 for regular. You look over at diesel and it reads $6.44, and the national average crossed six dollars a gallon this month for the first time on record, and you remember reading that a station somewhere ran dry. Texas, maybe. You cannot remember. Everything you buy comes in on a truck that burns it.This cannot end well.Past the pumps, past the air hose, past the ice chest with the busted lid, a man in a c
He Called a Genocide a Conflict (opens the original)
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Yesterday morning, Ed Sheeran called the genocide in Palestine a conflict.On September 5, at MetLife Stadium, his opening act, Macklemore, yelled “Free Palestine.” Within days, according to the Associated Press, Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots, had rallied stadium owners behind an ultimatum, and the promoter said venues would refuse any show with Macklemore on it. Kraft pointed to his comments and “a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery.”Macklemore
He Voted Against This For Decades... (opens the original)
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Yesterday, after 92 days out of sight, Mitch McConnell rolled back into the United States Senate.In the photographs, the 84-year-old sits in a wheelchair that an aide has to push, beneath the Capitol’s gold-lit arches, in a navy suit and a yellow striped tie, his fingertips pressed together in front of his chest. His eyes, wide behind rimless glasses, drift upward past the camera while his mouth hangs slightly open. A purple bruise spreads across the back of his left hand, just above a gold watc
Only Great Men Make History (opens the original)
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The Humanity Archive is 100% reader-supported. No ads, sponsors, or corporate owners. Keep it that way for $8 a month or $80 a year. Paid subscribers get every essay as it publishes plus the full archive.Subscribe nowFriday night, President Donald Trump demanded a thirty-foot statue of George Washington for the National Mall and called it a Colossus. He wants it outside the National Museum of American History, and an eleven-foot version inside
After 9/11, They Said the Air Was Safe. It Was a Death Sentence Instead. (opens the original)
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At 8:46 on the morning of September 11, 2001, Marcy Borders was twenty-eight, one month into a job, at her desk on the 81st floor of the North Tower when American Airlines Flight 11 tore into the building twelve floors above her.Her supervisor ordered everyone to stay. She ran. The first stairwell was wrecked; she found a second and kept descending, and when she pushed out onto the street the wounded already covered it. At 9:59 the South Tower dropped beside the one she had just left. A stranger
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