This week's Top 5:
* Gambling's grip (Harper's Magazine)
* Of plumes and poachers (The Bitter Southerner)
* Bemoaning Americans in Rome (The Dial)
* Magical history tour (Texas Monthly)
* Fake poultry flinger (Slate)
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Here's what we have for you in this week's Top 5:
• Midair mayhem (The New Statesman)
• Know when to fold 'em (Slate)
• For art's sake (The Economist)
• Breech of trust (The Guardian)
• May it trees the court (Harper's Magazine)
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In this week's Top 5:
* Rise of the machines (New York Review of Architecture)
* Help me, Seymour! (Garden & Gun)
* Crossing the party line (Equator)
* A powerful instrument (https://frankchimero.com)
* Turn, turn, turn (Emergence Magazine)
Hear from our editors on each story, and find out this week's audience favorite!
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Media mistrust (Harper's Magazine)
* Hunting identity (The Bitter Southerner)
* Meat and pota-woes (Serious Eats)
* Celebrating cinephilia @lrb
* Knightley news (The Times)
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Another week passes by. It’s 28ºC here, and I’m still in shorts. Here’s this week’s tip-top five at our frontier outpost in the Portuguese mountains. NewMusic #MusicDiscovery #WeeklyTop5 #dub #footwork #shoegaze and #experimental
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Subsidizing carnage (The Local)
* “Best” American poetry (Defector)
* Frail fibers (The Guardian)
* A crabby savior (The American Scholar)
* Feline fealty (The Sun Magazine)
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* The legend of the levee boss (The American Scholar)
* Identity in the age of AI (Harper's Magazine)
* The rules of Rave Club (The Fence Magazine)
* Studying philosophy in prison (Aeon)
* French fry why (Toronto Life)
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* The politics of pools (Earth Island Journal)
* Not so nice mining ice (The Walrus)
* Ultrarunning scamp or champ? (5280 Magazine)
* Tom fauxlery (The Verge)
* Smells like snail spirit (Texas Monthly)
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
• Symbiosis steeped in irony (Washington Post)
• The hidden lives of rocks (Atmos)
• Journalism’s facts machine (The Yale Review)
• What’s up, sun? (Noēma)
• Puzzling through problems (The American Scholar)
Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
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