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Andrew Sullivan | The Weekly | 26th June 2026 The FIFA World Cup in America has provided an “unexpected, fresh burst of globalised joy”. “We forget too easily the multicultural miracle we have already achieved in this quarter of a millennium, and the loving, generous, bountiful culture that is still America at its core.

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Elizabeth George | Use Your Wealth | 18th June 2026 Former private banker's observations on the ultra rich. The wealthy aren't necessarily better at managing money, they just have more of it. Most are investing in the same funds as the rest of us. More people have trust funds that you would expect. A lack of transparency about finances can ruin marriages and parent-child relationships at all levels, but millions of dollars really turbocharges the damage (2,200 words) Want more?

J.J. Anselmi | New Republic | 22nd June 2026 | B Oral history, compiled from interviews with people across the USA who have had a data centre built in their neighbourhood. The companies and logistics were different in each case, while other aspects are similar across sites and states.

Five Books features in-depth author interviews recommending five books on a theme. You can read more interviews on the site , or sign up for the newsletter . While often associated with populism and economic dissatisfaction, the success of the MAGA movement in the United States is also rooted in a distinctive set of ideas about culture, identity, authority, and national renewal.

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Roger’s Bacon | Secretorum | 25th June 2026 Compilation of thoughts about the connection between visual experiments — or doodling — and the pre-modern tendency for animist polytheism. "One man’s mutant is another man’s god" and augmenting recognisable beings via painting, sculpture or storytelling was a key part of religious evolution. Then human society became literate and thus more literal.

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Paste | 19th June 2026 | U Refreshingly original list, made more so by the requirement to choose only one song per artist (as per the headnote, this prevents it being "40% Beatles"). Broken up into three pages, so be sure to explore numbers 50-11 and 10-1 as well. There are plenty of well-known favourites here by big-time stars, as well as appearances by the likes of Jackie Shane, Doris Troy and Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (19,500 words) Puzzle: Play Nomido, the Browser’s daily word game.