Who will rebuild Syria, and how? Where will five million displaced Syrians live? This week's free thing explores the rebuilding of Syria.
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Poem of Identity and Authority
Poetry by Arturo Desimone.
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Is ‘OK Boomer’ the ‘New N-Word,’ or Are Millennials Still Destroying Everything? – How media coverage of intergenerational divides obscures class conflict
Corporate media love to pose economic strife as generational strife. Alan MacLeod on the latest round of tommyrot.
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Sunday Comics
The Mickey Mouse badge told the Ayatollah at his feet, "You drink your oil you schmuck, we'll eat our heads of wheat." But I'm the man in grey, we're Sunday Comics at the Star and we don't have a say in the war games that they play.
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Eroding: A Photo Poem Series
Photography by Leela. Poems by Goirick Brahmachari
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Here’s What Happens When a Handful of Developers Control the Housing Market
Oligopoly is good for business, but is it good for you? Daniel Herriges writes.
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Sunday Comics
You gentlemen who think you have a mission to purge us of the Sunday Comics should first sort out the basic food position. Then start your preaching, that's where it begins.
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Free Thing of the Week: Dreamy, Haunting and Slow
This week's free thing brings you some dreamy music from Iran.
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When Halloween Became America’s Most Dangerous Holiday
The urban legends of "dangerous" trick-or-treating at Halloween are merely an expression of cultural and social anxieties.
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Mental Health and the Modern City: Undoing the Damage
Glasgow has become notorious for the kind of mental and physical ills that plague city dwellers everywhere. Is urban life itself harmful to humans – or can we rethink cities so that they can help us to thrive?
