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The American Bugle

The American Bugle

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Reveille for the Curious. The world is bigger, weirder, and more fascinating than you think. The Bugle delivers sharp ideas and bold stories that spark curiosity and leave you wanting more. No fluff, no sermons. Just think.

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The Sacred Act of Not Doing Whatever You Want

Civic Mysticism, Fair Rules, and the Moral Weight of Shared Limits

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December 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM

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The Impossible Workout That Might Just Save You

How a Brutalist Morning Ritual Is Transforming Former Ghosts into Actual Weapons

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July 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM

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The Only Band That Mattered: The White Stripes and the End of Music

From Robert Johnson’s crossroads to Jack White’s peppermint doom stomp, a straight line runs through the last hundred years of American sound. Most bands were noise. The White Stripes were signal.

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July 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM

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Whatever Happened to Memory?

The quiet disappearance of a classic children’s game—and what it reveals about how we train minds in the age of distraction.

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June 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM

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Flashback Movie Review: Until the End of the World (1991)

Wim Wenders’ dream-haunted road epic imagined our screen-bound future with hallucinatory clarity. Thirty years later, we’re all watching our memories on loop.

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May 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM

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The Soviet Brick That Never Died

The UAZ-452 is the cockroach of vans—and that’s a compliment.

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May 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM

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Fact Panthers on the Prowl

By The Bugle Editorial Dept.

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May 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM

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Resurrected from the North: Saab’s Electric Renaissance

How the Swedish underdog recharges Americana with its Turbo 900 EV lineup

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May 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM

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A Modest Proposal for the Benevolent Re-Nationalization of Amazon

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May 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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The Quiet Revolution Against Optimization Culture

How a new generation is rediscovering what we lost on the way to the future

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May 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM

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The Tinsel Paradox

Why reviving America’s most glitter‑ridden junk might be the holiday fantasy we can’t afford

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May 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM

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Let It Ride: The One-Day Comedy That Quietly Bet on Magic and Won

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April 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM

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Return to Old Skills Primer #1: How to Camp for One Night and Not Die (or Complain)

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April 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM

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Fighting Monsters: Can You Resist Evil Without Becoming It?

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April 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM

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Over-Promise, Over-Power

How inflated dreams become authoritarian regimes

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March 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM

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Sigue Sigue Sputnik: The Band That Fell Out of a Cyberpunk Future

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March 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM

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The Specials: A Retrospective, and the Ska Anthem That Almost Got Away

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March 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM

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Erased Without Warning: The Disappearance of David Botello’s Culver City Mural

The quiet removal of a Chicano masterpiece has left a community asking: Who decides what history stays?

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March 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM

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A Corporate Mediation Gone Terribly, Hilariously, Existentially Wrong

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March 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM

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The Hidden Ones: Who Among Us Holds Up the World?

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March 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM

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This Land Was Your Land

Woody Guthrie’s Anthem in an Age of Authoritarian Drift

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March 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM

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The Three Kinds of Thinking: Escaping the Flatlands of Thought

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February 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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Three-Ring Government: Schoolhouse Rock! and the Circus of Democracy

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February 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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The Post-Sopranos Cultural Drift

When We Stopped Looking for Heroes

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February 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM

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Carney’s: A Lifetime on the Sunset Strip

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February 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM