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The Secret Weakness of TikTok’s All-Powerful Algorithm

 The social-media giant is paying a price for its own mythmaking. By John Herrman
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Trump Is Actually For Real Close to Going to Jail This Time

 By Matt Stieb The judge overseeing his hush-money trial said he would “have to consider a jail sanction” if Trump violates his gag order again.
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A Columbia ’68 Revolutionary Takes Stock of Today’s Protests

 By Benjamin Hart James Simon Kunen wrote a famous memoir of the university’s most tumultuous year. He likes what he sees from the kids these days.
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trump on trial
What Happened in the Trump Trial Today: Judge Threatens Jail
By Nia Prater
A running recap of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial.
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early and often
Lara Trump Tees Up Another Premature Election Victory Claim
By Ed Kilgore
The RNC co-chair’s absurd complaint about counting votes cast by mail lays the groundwork for more Trump election chicanery.
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early and often
Who’s the Trump VP Pick? Latest Odds for Every Shortlist Candidate.
By Margaret Hartmann
Does MTG have “the look”? Is Tim Scott loyal enough? Is Kristi Noem out? Here are each VP candidate’s odds in the race to be Trump’s running mate.

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  1. Google Is Staring Down Its First Serious Threats in Years
    By John Herrman
  2. Listen Up, Columbia!
    By Gabriella Gregor Splaver
  3. Trump-vs.-Biden Polls: Don’t Be Fooled by Outliers!
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. Who’s the Trump VP Pick? Latest Odds for Every Shortlist Candidate.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  5. Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control 
    By Kerry Howley
  1. Google Is Staring Down Its First Serious Threats in Years
    By John Herrman
  2. Listen Up, Columbia!
    By Gabriella Gregor Splaver
  3. Who’s the Trump VP Pick? Latest Odds for Every Shortlist Candidate.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  4. Trump-vs.-Biden Polls: Don’t Be Fooled by Outliers!
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. The Secret Weakness of TikTok’s All-Powerful Algorithm
    By John Herrman
trump hush money trial
trump hush money trial
Donald Trump Is Actually For Real Close to Going to Jail This Time
By Matt Stieb
The judge overseeing his hush-money trial said he would “have to consider a jail sanction” if Trump violates his gag order again.
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tremendous content
All the Weird Stories in Kristi Noem’s New Book
By Margaret Hartmann
From the “dog killer” story to a made-up meeting with Kim Jong-un, here are Noem’s most eye-popping claims.
just asking questions
just asking questions
A Columbia ’68 Revolutionary Takes Stock of Today’s Protests
By Benjamin Hart
James Simon Kunen wrote a famous memoir of the university’s most tumultuous year. He likes what he sees from the kids these days.
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screen time
The Secret Weakness of TikTok’s All-Powerful Algorithm
By John Herrman
The social-media giant is paying a price for its own mythmaking.
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tremendous content
Kristi Noem Would Have Shot Biden’s Dog Commander, Too
By Chas Danner
The South Dakota governor, still under fire for executing her own dog, is now taking aim at the Biden family’s bite-happy former pet.
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screen time
Google Is Staring Down Its First Serious Threats in Years
By John Herrman
The search giant now faces three simultaneous challenges: government regulators, real competition, and itself.
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that happened
The Time the Trump Campaign Blamed Microsoft for His Antisemitic Tweet
By Matt Stieb
The Star of David in front of a pile of money didn’t mean what you thought it meant!
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poll position
Trump-vs.-Biden Polls: Don’t Be Fooled by Outliers!
By Ed Kilgore
Excessive focus on single polls or even short-term trends in averages signifies spin rather than analysis.
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the takeover
Our Campus. Our Crisis.
Edited by Columbia Daily Spectator
Inside the encampments and crackdowns that shook American politics. A report by the student journalists of the Columbia Daily Spectator.
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the takeover
Should Columbia’s President Resign?
Edited by Columbia Daily Spectator
And 27 other questions we asked the school’s students, faculty, and staff.
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the takeover
Listen Up, Columbia!
Photographs by Gabriella Gregor Splaver
Portraits from a campus in crisis.
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early and often
A Trump-Rubio 2024 Ticket Could Spark a Constitutional Crisis
By Ed Kilgore
Trump is looking at Little Marco as a running mate. But because of the 12th Amendment, that would risk of saddling him with Kamala Harris as VP.
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trump on trial
David Pecker and Keith Davidson, the Gossip Racketeers
By Andrew Rice
At the heart of the Trump trial is a sleazy caper gone wrong.
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trump media
Who Could Have Ever Seen That Trump Media’s Auditor Is a ‘Massive Fraud"?
By Kevin T. Dugan
In an unbelievable coincidence, the number cruncher for Trump’s Twitter clone is bad at his job
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the approval matrix
The Approval Matrix: Ticktock, TikTok
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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royals
How Are King Charles & Kate Middleton Doing? Latest Health Updates.
By Margaret Hartmann
Both the king and the princess are battling cancer. Here’s what we know about their health, and how Britain’s royal family is handling the situation.
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Kristi Noem Killed Her Dog. Why Is She Telling Us This?
By Margaret Hartmann
Why does Trump’s potential VP pick tell a story about fatally shooting a puppy she “hated” in her new book? Here are the top four theories.
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the law
The Secret Tape That Will Roil the Trump Trial
By Elie Honig
Michael Cohen recorded his former client and boss. Prosecutors will wish he hadn’t.
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the inside game
It’s Not 1968 to Joe Biden
By Gabriel Debenedetti
The president isn’t worried about campus protests sinking the youth vote. Should he be?
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early and often
Kristi Noem Says Dog She Shot Was the Real Killer
By Margaret Hartmann
The governor responded to the “dog killer” scandal on Hannity by emphasizing that Cricket was a “dangerous” jerk who killed “for fun.”
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tremendous content
Trump: I’m Not Sleeping in Court, I’m Resting My ‘Beautiful Blue Eyes’
By Margaret Hartmann
The defense Trump posted on Truth Social is about as believable as claiming his dog ate documents about his hush-money payments.
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MTG and Gaetz Manage to Smear Both Jews and Fellow Christians
By Ed Kilgore
The House antisemitism bill rightly rejects the doctrine that Jews are responsible for Jesus’s death. They say it’s an essential Christian belief.