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Sixty years ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut on CBS. Today, as part of CBS’s new initiative to modernize content, CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss updates this Christmas classic.

Charlie Brown and Linus lean on a brick wall. Snowflakes fall around them.

CHARLIE BROWN: I think there must be something wrong with me. I just don’t understand Christmas, I guess. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel.

LINUS: Charlie Brown, you are the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem. Maybe Lucy is right. Maybe it is because of woke.

Charlie Brown sits in front of Lucy’s psychiatric booth.

CHARLIE BROWN: I feel depressed. I know I should be happy, but I’m not.

A study notes marked lifespan increases in mammals that have been castrated or kept on contraception

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Still Life with Plaster Head, 1947 by Vanessa Bell. Oil on board. 53.5 44.5 cm. Estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2025.

Honestly, I don’t know to whom this letter is directed. God? Harvard? (I’m taking a deep, strengthening breath here) Will Hunting himself? My employer-provided therapist told me to do this, and the university committee says to do whatever she says.

For many years now, I have taken my kids on ski trips several times a year. They still protest, saying skiing is okay, but we don’t need to go every time I have weekend custody. They’ll appreciate it one day when they have kids of their own and relentlessly take them on ski trips.

The part they complain about most is how long it takes to actually reach the resort, because I need to stop at every fast-food drive-thru we pass, where I always order fries. Just fries. No burgers, no drinks, fries. And I always pay close attention to the person serving said fries because I know—I don’t think, I know—that eventually it will be Will Hunting and my prophecy will be fulfilled. I cannot be wrong about that. Because if I am wrong about that, I could be wrong about anything. Or everything. And then, am I even alive? Was I ever?

The Trump administration is killing civilians in the Caribbean and Pacific and trying to suppress videos of boat strikes and press coverage.

The post “Trump Has Appointed Himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner” appeared first on The Intercept.

Despite centuries of trying, the term ‘religion’ has proven impossible to define. Then why does it remain so necessary?

- by Kwame Anthony Appiah

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I wasn’t quite sure what this moving, warm-and-fuzzy feeling was, until research put a name to it: ‘kama muta’

- by Hannah Seo

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At a time of rising intolerance, the century-old work of C E M Joad reminds us what tolerance really is and why we need it

- by Kiran Kumbhar

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The 911 operator couldn’t send an ambulance because it was already responding to another call from ICE’s Stewart Detention Center.

The post ICE Prison’s 911 Calls Overwhelm a Rural Georgia Emergency System appeared first on The Intercept.

Consider four events that vividly capture the spirit of our times. In late August 2025, in the port city of Tianjin in northern China, Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi, and Vladimir Putin — surrounded by the heads of state of twenty-three other non-Western nations (among them Iran, Pakistan, and the Central Asian republics) — sealed an […]

The soft rumbles seem to reveal more about a feline than their meows, and it’s probably thanks to humans

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The deadly pathogen is adept at jumping between neurons, making it an ideal tracer to reveal how connections change after a dose of psilocybin in mice

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