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The Impact of Gentrification on Urban Communities: Analyzing Displacement, Economic Divides, and Possible Solutions
Gentrification is one of those words people throw around without always grasping its full weight. On the surface, it sounds like progress—new coffee shops, revitalized parks, an artisanal candle store on every corner. But underneath the buzzwords and fresh coats of paint lies a harsher reality: longtime residents being pushed out, cultural roots being paved
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Why Failure Is the Best Teacher You’ll Ever Have
Failure and I are on a first-name basis. We’ve shared cramped apartments, empty bank accounts, rejected job applications, rejected book drafts, and one unforgettable chili recipe that turned into a chemical weapon. We’ve cried together. We’ve yelled at each other. But eventually, I realized failure isn’t my enemy. It’s the weird, brutally honest life coach
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Why Awards Shows Are My Favorite Form of Performance Art (And Occasional Train Wreck)
There’s something oddly comforting about the chaos of an awards show. Maybe it’s the glittering gowns that look like someone lost a bet with a glue gun. Maybe it’s the presenters who butcher the teleprompter like it insulted their mother. Or maybe it’s just the promise that something will go off the rails and Twitter
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Bipartisanship Is Dead — And That’s Okay
Let’s just rip the Band-Aid off: bipartisanship is dead. And you know what? Maybe it deserves to be. For years, we’ve been spoon-fed this myth that the highest virtue in American politics is finding the middle ground. That if we all just held hands across the aisle and sang kumbaya, we could fix everything from
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Scream and the Death (and Rebirth) of the Slasher: How One Film Revived a Genre on Life Support
When Scream slashed its way into theaters in December 1996, the horror genre was a bloated corpse of its former self. Slashers, once revolutionary in the late ’70s and early ’80s, had been reduced to formulaic gore-fests. The tropes were tired, the killers predictable, and the final girls were either virginal stereotypes or so thinly