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The American Condition Remains Unstable.

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Lifestyle

How the nation lives when the premise refuses to resolve.

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Five people in Union Civil War uniforms on a sidewalk; four lean forward on upright rifles with heads bowed, one bends at the waist with a rifle on the ground; brick wall and street behind them.

DepartmentBreaking News

Fentanyl Players Stage Historical Tableaux Across San Francisco

FiledJohn Herring

A small art collective calling itself the Fentanyl Players is staging still-life photography across sidewalks and parks by costuming people locked in the city’s familiar standing fentanyl stupor. Members of the troupe drape period clothing, adjust props, and tuck symbolic objects into subjects’ arms and waistlines while they remain upright, motionless, and unaware.

Government budget documents stacked on a table.

DepartmentLifestyle

DOGE Finds $14.2 Million Spent to Preserve Pubic Lice

FiledJohn Herring

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has found over $14 million in spending to preserve pubic lice. Former President Joe Biden’s claimed that his administration's infrastructure bill would “set the United States on course to meet its climate goals, create millions of good-paying jobs, enable more Americans to join and remain in the labor …