June 2026

Behind This $25K Electric Truck Is Jeff Bezos’ ‘Made in America’ Mission

Slate Auto’s bare-bones EV truck tests demand for ultra-low-cost vehicles built on a new model.”> Last week, Slate Auto, an electric car startup backed by Jeff Bezos and led by a group of former Amazon executives, announced the price tag of the most affordable electric pickup truck in America: $24,950. It’s extremely bare-bones, but its […]

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A Rare Declaration of Independence Broadside Printed by a Secret British Loyalist Is Up for Auction

On the night of July 4, 1776, a Philadelphia printer named John Dunlap was handed a draft of what is arguably the most consequential document in American history and told to get it into print. He set type through the night, printing around 200 broadside copies of the manuscript that would be read aloud at

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Five Things to Know From Our Big Story on NY’s Broken Benefits Card System

It happens all the time: a New Yorker who relies on federal benefits to feed their family swipes their Electronic Benefits Transfer card at the grocery store, only to find that their money for the month has disappeared. In a deep look at the problem, we discovered: New York’s outdated EBT cards are especially vulnerable

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At Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, NOMAD’s First U.S. Edition Found an Ideal Stage

There’s a constant across NOMAD editions: a spatial storytelling that turns curated showcases of art and design into contextualized narratives. From Monaco to St. Moritz, Capri to Abu Dhabi, NOMAD’s nomadic format has transformed unique historical locations into destinations for art, design and singular creation. Most of the creators exhibiting at the fair resist easy

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Why People Still Get Worked Up About Jasper Johns’s ‘Flag’ Painting

(Editor’s note: This article was originally published on February 21, 2018.) Defined by motifs that occur throughout his body of work, including targets and numbers, Jasper Johns’s career began with Flag, which sparked a revolution when it appeared in 1958. The art world was nearly a decade deep in Abstract Expressionism when this 3.5-by-5-foot encaustic

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