Author: Alain Guillot
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372 Adrienne Raphel: Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who fill them
in podcastAbout Adrienne Raphel Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them, and What Was It For. Her essays, poetry, and criticism appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Paris Review Daily, Slate, Lana Turner Journal, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review,…
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White People’s Death of Despair and the Loss of Social Status
White people’s life expectancy in the United States is decreasing. At one time, white people could be expected to have the highest life expectancy by a wide margin, but that lead is getting narrower and narrower. The contributing factors are drug overdoses, alcoholism, liver disease, suicides, obesity, growing economic uncertainty, job polarization, restricted access to…
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371 Kate Masur: America’s First Civil Rights Movement
in podcastAbout Kate Masur Kate Masur is an associate professor of History at Northwestern University. She has written extensively on race and politics in the nineteenth-century United States, including in her first book, An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, DC (2010). With Gregory P. Downs, she co-authored, for…
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What Should Your Emergency Fund Be Used For?
You’ll hear many financially-savvy people discuss their ‘emergency fund’. In addition to long-term savings, and maybe even some ‘rainy day’ savings, having an emergency fund can help you stay in control of your financial future. An emergency fund is there to cover unexpected life expenses, helping you avoid taking out loans or credit. Your emergency…
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Should You Be Concerned If You Live In a High Rise Building?
On June 24, 2021, the Champlain Towers South building, a 12-story beachfront condominium in Miami, Florida, partially collapsed. The death count is not finished yet, but it will easily surpass 100 people. The suspected cause of the collapse is the long-term degradation of reinforced concrete support structures. My mother is at risk My mother lives…
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370 Cheryl Diamond: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
in podcastAbout Cheryl Diamond Cheryl Diamond was born on the run. By the age of nine she had lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. She was home-schooled by her parents who were evading Interpol and various other law enforcement agencies. At sixteen, Cheryl was scouted by a modelling…