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Kristen Ghodsee | MIT Press Reader | 6th November 2025 Historian of post-Communism, while acknowledging the enormous harms of the various 20C regimes, enumerates the benefits that are now vanishing under capitalism. These include a powerful sense of community, accessible and subsidised cultural life, improved workplace equality for women and planned neighbourhoods with civic amenities. These are lessons, not political heresy, she argues (1,500 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Ricki Heicklen | 1st January 2018 Continually updated list of unparalleled misalignments, defined by the compiler as "pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other". For example: each word of "American Art" corresponds to that of "Yankee Doodle", but the phrases themselves don't match. Other gems include "father figure/dad bod" and "dark matter/midnight mass" (3,300 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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