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Farage beats the bin - so why are Reform MPs livid?

The people of Clacton will be relieved it’s over, but one candidate was conspicuously absent from the proceedings last night: Nigel Farage. He and his team will say he was advised not to attend because of a security threat, Essex police deny any such advice. Nonetheless, in a surprise to absolutely no one, Farage won the Clacton by-election, seeing off a record 33 other candidates. But just how impressive was the victory? Is Farage’s win really as big as he’d have us believe? Or is it even mo...

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Environment

Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers

The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do

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Business

Ben Horowitz and Travis Kalanick on Building Again

Ben Horowitz, Travis Kalanick, and Erik Torenberg take the stage at Atoms' launch event for a candid fireside conversation about entrepreneurship, company building, and why Kalanick believes the next industrial revolution will be They revisit pivotal moments from Uber's history, including the decision not to acquire Lyft, lessons from scaling one of the world's fastest-growing companies, and how Kalanick has evolved as a founder. The conversation also explores Atoms' vision for industrial AI,...

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Culture

Body Surveillance Shames What God Calls Good

In 2012, an article for Hollywood Life invited readers to indulge their curiosity about a celebrity’s body: “Kate Bosworth Looks Scary Skinny—Too Thin? Vote.” That year, I was recovering from anorexia. The disease had shattered my health and cost me most of my friendships. My treatment required me to go to weekly appointments with a Read more. The post Body Surveillance Shames What God Calls Good appeared first on Christianity Today

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Complicated Men and the Search for God

This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Robert Harris, Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome’s Descent into Dictatorship (Doubleday, 2026) Toward the close of Robert Harris’s Agrippa (2026), the novel’s eponymous narrator admits he lacks the secretaries who helped shape Julius Caesar’s memoirs, adding that he “cannot abide long books that drag on Read more. The post Complicated Men and the Search for God appeared first on Christianity Today

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Society

80,000 Migrants Came and Went. Ceuta Pastors Keep Serving.

When Juan García awoke on the morning of Friday, July 31, and looked out his window, he saw hundreds of migrants seeking relief from the sweltering heat in a public fountain that separates his home from that of fellow pastor Javier Santolaria across the street. In two days, an unprecedented 80,000 migrants descended on Ceuta, Read more. The post 80,000 Migrants Came and Went. Ceuta Pastors Keep Serving. appeared first on Christianity Today

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