This Week's Picks

• The unofficial history of America is not a story of rugged individualism and heroic personal sacrifice in the pursuit of a dream. It is a story of democracy derailed, of a revolutionary spirit suppressed, and of a once-proud people reduced to servitude. (link)

• Video: You can keep stress-eating, binge-watching and doom scrolling, or you can wake the fuck up and fight like hell. (link)

• We Westerners have a long tradition of borrowing from other cultures to temper an immoderate nature, so why not look to Ramadan for a bit of restraint? (link)

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