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How Biden Launched a New Prison Boom

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The Professor Who Concocted a $50 “Experiment” on His Students Is Making the Wrong People Feel Smug

Scott Weaver

How Cops Turned a Stretch of Highway Into a Small Town’s ATM

Mary Harris

The Real Problem With Virginia’s Attempt to Ditch Masks in Schools

Dahlia Lithwick

Work

Companies Are Desperate for Workers. Why Aren’t They Doing the One Thing That Will Attract Them?

Alison Green

The Mystery of How Agatha Christie Could Afford a Maid and a Nanny but Not a Car

Timothy B. Lee

Music

TikTok Is Already Convinced This Is the Next Fyre Festival

Aliya Chaudhry

This Is Fine

Has Godwin’s Law, the Rule of Nazi Comparisons, Been Disproved?

Stephen Harrison

Advice

I’m Furious About What the Seller of Our Dream House Did to Us

Athena Valentine

My Wife Is Trying to Mold Our Daughter Into Her Mini-Me

Doyin Richards

It Turns Out Celebrities Can Actually Be Amazing Novelists

Laura Miller

I Can’t Get Over How Many Women Say the Exact Wrong Thing Before We Have Sex

How to Do It

Crypto

I think I'm doing great, but most people see my job as low-paid and unskilled.

Help! My Husband Returned to His Sexual Wrestling Account After I Lost My Libido.

Help! My Long-Term Partner Wasn’t Invited to My Friend’s Wedding Because We’re Not Married.

Help! My Neighbor Is Running a Porn Studio Out of His House.

Help! How Do I Tell My Child Their Parent Is a Criminal?

Care and Feeding

My Child’s Hobby Has Become an Obsession

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Athena Valentine

I’m Furious About What the Seller of Our Dream House Just Did to Us

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Big Mood Little Mood

Would It Be Racist If We Only Considered White Donors at the Sperm Bank?

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How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom

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Mary Harris

How Cops Turned a Stretch of Highway Into a Small Town’s ATM

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Doyin Richards

Dear Care and Feeding: My Wife is Trying to Mold Our Daughter into Her Mini-Me

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Scott Weaver

The Professor Who Concocted a $50 “Experiment” on His Students Is Making the Wrong People Feel Smug

Companies Are Desperate for Workers. Why Aren’t They Doing the One Thing That Will Attract Them?

Alison Green

TikTok Is Already Convinced This Is the Next Fyre Festival

Aliya Chaudhry

Virginia Schools Are Melting Down

In his first week on the job, Gov. Glenn Youngkin created a crisis.

Dahlia Lithwick

Why Is Bitcoin Plummeting? What About My Shiba Inu Coins?

Your cryptocurrency crash questions, answered.

Aaron Mak

Culture

What it all means

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The Newbery Medal Is 100. It’s Smuggled Some Real Duds Onto Our Library Shelves.

Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl

Should publishers put some of the older winners out to pasture?

It Turns Out Celebrities Can Actually Be Amazing Novelists

Laura Miller

How Lusia Harris Became “the Queen of Basketball”

Hang Up and Listen

TikTok Is Already Convinced This Is the Next Fyre Festival

Aliya Chaudhry

Downton Abbey’s Creator Moved His New Show to New York. He Left Something Crucial Behind.

Rebecca Onion

How Chiefs-Bills Became One of the Greatest Games in NFL History

Josh Levin

The Wildest Thing About That Wild Buccaneers-Rams Playoff Game

Alex Kirshner

Tech & Business

Where we’re headed

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Tonga’s Devastating Volcanic Eruption Has Left the Island Without Internet

Ian M. Ralby and Justin Sherman

How Cops Turned a Stretch of Highway Into a Small Town’s ATM

Mary Harris

When Kazakhstan Turned Off the Internet

Colleen Wood and Sher Khashimov

The Counterintuitive Economic Principle That Explains the Modern World

Timothy B. Lee

The Crypto Obsessives Trying to Save a Notorious Internet Criminal From Prison

Aaron Mak

Bitcoin Is Just a Crappy Tech Stock Now

Jordan Weissmann

Why Is Bitcoin Crashing? What About My Shiba Inu Coins?

Aaron Mak

I’m Furious About What the Seller of Our Dream House Just Did to Us

Athena Valentine

Human Interest

An honest guide to modern life

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How the Internet Ruined the Birth Story

Sarah Stoller

A practice with feminist roots has become branding, like everything else.

Would It Be Racist If We Only Considered White Donors at the Sperm Bank?

Big Mood Little Mood

Dear Care and Feeding: My Wife is Trying to Mold Our Daughter into Her Mini-Me

Doyin Richards

The Professor Who Concocted a $50 “Experiment” on His Students Is Making the Wrong People Feel Smug

Scott Weaver

Help! I Love My Job, but People See It as Low-Paid and Unskilled.

Jenée Desmond-Harris

Wanna Be Viewed as More Intelligent and Better Looking? Tell More Jokes.

How To!

I Can’t Get Over How Many Women Say the Exact Wrong Thing Before We Have Sex

Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak

News & Politics

What really matters

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How the Women’s March Might Have Played Out Differently

Christina Cauterucci

Five years later, the record-setting event’s legacy lingers in a way many of its participants may not have imagined.

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The Real Problem With Virginia’s Attempt to Ditch Masks in Schools

Dahlia Lithwick

Republicans Don’t Need to Win Elections. They Already Won the Supreme Court.

Mark Joseph Stern

Is Russia Waiting Until After the Olympics to Invade Ukraine?

Thomas Graham Jr.

The Biggest Obstacle to Eric Adams’ Plans for the NYPD

Christopher Hayes

How the Texas Synagogue Survived

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How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom

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