Black, white, and boring: the monochroming of America's cars

Tech Insider : Economy
Illustration of gray cars.

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The United States of Automobiles

Tech Insider : Economy
Illustration of Cars moving, making the American Flag.

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Gen Z's new status symbol: super-expensive snacks

Tech Insider : Economy
Grocery bag filled with cash, produce, and high end items popular with gen-z

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The professor made porn. His firing may shape the future of free speech.

Tech Insider
Joe Gow
"If they can do this to me, they could do it to any tenured professor," says Joe Gow. "Academia is not a law firm or a bank or an insurance company. We're in the truth business."

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Mojitos and an MRI: Meet the Americans who are getting health screenings on vacation

Tech Insider : Travel, Economy, Travel
A woman smiles with a tropical drink and an MRI scan in the back.

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When Josef Woodman's shoulder gave out in 2012 — strained from chopping firewood on his farm outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina — he said he was quoted between $2,400 and $3,200 for an MRI at Duke University Hospital.

'Trump is going to win': Latino voters explain why they're moving to the right

Tech Insider : Politics, Economy
A collection of Republican party imagery
A community gathering center in Starr County, where support for Donald Trump nearly quadrupled in 2020.

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Boomers are selling off their businesses. Millennials are swooping in.

Tech Insider : Economy
Stock graph with younger woman and older woman on opposite ends of the upward arrow

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America's absurd war on 'organized retail crime'

Tech Insider
A man walks out of a store with a cart full of items, greeted by police officers outside.

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The plot to topple Putin

Tech Insider : Politics
A group of people stand between two stone columns.
Ever since the invasion of Ukraine, a loose and sometimes fractious cohort of Russian exiles — many of them based in Warsaw — has come to believe that Russia can be liberated only through violence and sabotage.

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Gen Z loves Kamala. But don't expect a repeat of Obama in 2008.

Tech Insider : Politics
Kamala Harris in front of a pattern of Obama

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