Fastest rising
Momentum first — what is accelerating, then what readers are engaging with now. Recomputed on a schedule, never live.
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Sixty-One Names on a Sheet That Usually Has Three
The people saying that our school board meetings have been hijacked by people with no children in the district are correct. I checked. Of the sixty-one names on the public-comment sheet in Septembe…
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No Scotland, No Party
Twenty-eight years. That's how long Scotland had been away from a World Cup, which means that when we finally qualified — Hampden in November, Kenny McLean chipping the Danish goalkeeper from the halfway line while my father made a sound
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The Chapter Was Cut for Length and the Length Was Never the Reason
The 2017 revision removed four pages on the Bengal famine from the class eight textbook. The stated reason, in the committee minutes, is that the chapter ran long and the material was covered in cl…
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Every One of Those Beetles Was Collected at the County Courthouse
There are 214 occurrence records for a particular ground beetle in one midwestern county in the aggregated database most people use, and 189 of them share the same latitude and longitude to six dec…
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Four Bedrooms for a Family That Is Never in the Country at Once
On the road up from the highway there are now eleven houses of a kind that did not exist when I was a child. Concrete frame, two storeys, tiled to about waist height in a colour, steel reinforcemen…
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The Best Labour Number Has Never Been on a Front Page
In the month everyone was arguing about whether the labour market had cracked, the job-to-job transition rate — the share of employed people who moved directly to a different employer without a spe…
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Thirty-One Days for a Drug She Was Already Taking
The fax machine in our office is nineteen years old and it is load-bearing. I mean that literally: if it fails, a category of work stops, because a meaningful share of American insurers still requi…
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The New Plant Has Four People on the Floor
I went back to Ohio in April to look at a plant that opened in 2023 with a great deal of ceremony. It makes a part that used to be made in Monterrey. The governor came. There were remarks about bri…
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The Village Has Two Names and Only One of Them Can Be Typed
On the survey sheet the village is spelled one way. In the revenue records it is spelled a second way, which is the surveyor's spelling with one vowel altered by a clerk at some point before 1911. …
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The Wall Protects This Ward and Takes the Beach From the Next One
The seawall ends at a survey marker about four hundred metres north of the temple, because that is where the ward ends. North of the marker the beach has lost, by the measurements the fisheries dep…