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Extra Extra: Don't Let Haters Tell You This Pandemic Won't End
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James Ramsay
Published Feb 26, 2021
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- Some Democratic lawmakers are very upset that President Biden launched airstrikes in Syria without congressional approval.
- Russian embassy staffers and their families had to leave North Korea on manually-propelled handcars yesterday because North Korea won't let locomotives cross its borders for fear of COVID-19 spread.
- On The Media had a great segment about this last month, but it bears repeating: The pandemic will end and things will get better, so don't let the doomsayer industrial complex convince you otherwise.
- Speaking of things getting better, the CEO of Live Nation thinks music festivals will return this summer.
- In the end, Reddit-dwelling meme investors pumping money into AMC may be the reason the movie theater chain survives the pandemic.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing a Superman reboot to be directed by J.J. Abrams.
- On the occasion of the New York Times Book Review's 125th anniversary, critic Parul Sehgal reviewed the Review.
- Email is making us miserable. (But also, subscribe to our newsletters!)
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