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The Battle for the Senate Is On

Alice Sebold’s Memoir About Her Rape Is Even More Brutal to Read Now

The Lawyer Who Defended Abortion Rights at SCOTUS Explains What It Was Like

Stephen Sondheim Didn’t Just Change Musicals Forever

Gun Violence

Parents of Michigan School Shooting Suspect Arrested After Intense Manhunt

The Right

A QAnon–Fox News Feud Is Now Dragging Tucker Carlson and Hunter Biden Into the Fray

Meet the Trump Fanatics Who Have Taken Over Elections in a Critical Swing State

The Left

Why Stacey Abrams Could Win This Time

A Detailed List of What Kamala Harris Should Do to Be More Popular

Holiday Guides

Every Home Cook Should Have Two of These

The Most Fun You Can Give for Less Than $30

The Brutal Celebrity Breakup That Proves Being a Wife Guy Is Risky Business

In Defense of All the Things Jurassic World Gets Wrong About Dinosaurs

Digital Life

The Exploding Market for Devices to Evade Corporate Productivity Trackers

Can Apple Take Down the Most Notorious Spyware Company?

One of the Most Unusual Cybersecurity Stories of the Year Is Getting More Complicated

The more I've stayed at home, the more I've realized I don't want to go back to work.

Help! A Couple From Our Church Says We’re Stealing From Their Dead Daughter.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: “Blame Game Fail”

Help! I’m a White Person Who’s Tired of Working on Diversity Initiatives at Work.

Help! I’m Disgusted by All Our Holiday Food Traditions.

My Son’s School Called About His Laptop Usage, and I’m Extremely Worried

The Life and Death of an All-American Slave Ship

Parents of Michigan School Shooting Suspect Arrested After Intense Manhunt

Tennis Diplomacy and Online Freedom

The Lawyer Who Defended Abortion Rights at SCOTUS Explains What It Was Like

In Defense of All the Things Jurassic World Gets Wrong About Dinosaurs

Help! I Got Laid Off, and I Think I’d Like to Live Off My Spouse’s Job Forever.

Meet the Trump Fanatics Who Have Taken Over Elections in a Critical Swing State

The Fox News–QAnon Rift That Maybe Revealed Tucker Carlson Asking Hunter Biden to Help His Son Get Into College

The Exploding Market for Devices That Help You Evade Corporate Productivity Trackers

“Try, if You Can, to Remember Everything”

Who Has the Best—and Worst—Italian Accent in House of Gucci?

Stephen Sondheim Didn’t Just Change Musicals Forever

Anthony Ramos and the Curse of the Wife Guy

Alice Sebold’s Memoir About Her Rape Is Even More Brutal to Read Now

The Bangles Cracked the Code of the 20-Year Nostalgia Cycle

Is It Still OK to Hate Kenny G?

Kenny G Explains Why He Did a Documentary About How Much People Hate Him

How Morale at Facebook Tumbled After Trump’s “Looting and Shooting” Post

In Defense of All the Things Jurassic World Gets Wrong About Dinosaurs

Can Apple Take Down the World’s Most Notorious Spyware Company?

Why You Shouldn’t Worry Too Much About the Crummy Jobs Report

The Exploding Market for Devices That Help You Evade Corporate Productivity Trackers

One of the Most Unusual Cybersecurity Stories of the Year Is Getting More Complicated

I Really Don’t Want the House My In-Laws Are Giving Us

Tennis Diplomacy and Online Freedom

Why One Mom’s Viral Video About Her Night Doula Made So Many People So Angry

Help! I Got Laid Off, and I Think I’d Like to Live Off My Spouse’s Job Forever.

The First Wild Transgenic Species Are Ready for Release

I’m Incredibly Ashamed of How I Acted When I Was Younger

Help! A Couple From Our Church Says We’re Stealing From Their Dead Daughter.

My Daughter Wants to Be Cut Off So She Can “Sink or Swim.” Should I Believe Her?

Dear Care and Feeding: My Son’s School Called About His Laptop Usage, and I’m Extremely Worried

How Ghislaine Maxwell’s Lawyers Are Attempting to Discredit Her Accusers

Parents of Michigan School Shooting Suspect Arrested After Intense Manhunt

The Lawyer Who Defended Abortion Rights at SCOTUS Explains What It Was Like

Inside the Arguments in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health

Dr. Oz Joins a Robust List of Nutso Senate Races Already Underway

The Fox News–QAnon Rift That Maybe Revealed Tucker Carlson Asking Hunter Biden to Help His Son Get Into College

Meet the Trump Fanatics Who Have Taken Over Elections in a Critical Swing State

The Life and Death of an All-American Slave Ship