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What in the World Are Biden and Putin Up To?

Fred Kaplan

Sports

College Gymnastics Is Blowing Up

Rebecca Schuman

The Galaxy-Brained Choice That U.S. Men’s Soccer Will Regret if They Miss the World Cup

Eric Betts

Higher Ed

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

Scott Weaver

Books

It Turns Out Celebrities Can Actually Be Amazing Novelists

Laura Miller

Work

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

Alison Green

How to Do It

My Friend Is Dating Again. She Clearly Never Learned the First Rule of Sleeping With Men.

Jessica Stoya

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

Pay Dirt

Bitcoin Is Just a Crappy Tech Stock Now

Jordan Weissmann

LEgal System

How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom

Eric Reinhart

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

Mary Harris

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

Aaron Mak

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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Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Simson Garfinkel

What if Quantum Computing Is a Bust?

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Madeline Ducharme and Nadira Goffe

Euphoria Is a Dozen Different Shows. Which Ones Should Get Canceled?

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Doyin Richards

Dear Care and Feeding: My Partner and I Keep Having the Same Argument Over and Over. They’re Wrong.

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Rebecca Schuman

College Gymnastics Is Blowing Up

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Lucas Mann

I Think I Know Why Men Don’t Talk About Parental Leave

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Culture Gabfest

The Gilded Age Has Lost Its Sheen

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

Athena Valentine

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

Scott Weaver

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

It explains the modern world.

Timothy B. Lee

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

Mary Harris

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?

Euphoria Is a Dozen Different Shows. Which Ones Should Get Canceled?

Madeline Ducharme and Nadira Goffe

College Gymnastics Is Blowing Up

Rebecca Schuman

The Gilded Age Has Lost Its Sheen

Culture Gabfest

We TikTok About Bruno

ICYMI

The Galaxy-Brained Choice That U.S. Men’s Soccer Will Regret if They Miss the World Cup

Eric Betts

It Turns Out Celebrities Can Actually Be Amazing Novelists

Laura Miller

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

Was Joe Biden Right About Peter Doocy?

Justin Peters

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

Athena Valentine

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

What if Quantum Computing Is a Bust?

Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Simson Garfinkel

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.

Dear Care and Feeding: My Partner and I Keep Having the Same Argument Over and Over. They’re Wrong.

Doyin Richards

I Think I Know Why Men Don’t Talk About Parental Leave

Lucas Mann

My Friend Is Dating Again. She Clearly Never Learned the First Rule of Sleeping With Men.

Jessica Stoya

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

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.

Nancy Pelosi Says She’s Running Again. There’s Something She Isn’t Saying.

Jim Newell

What in the World Are Biden and Putin Up To?

Fred Kaplan

The Supreme Court’s Plan to Block Climate Action We Haven’t Even Taken Yet

Karen C. Sokol

How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom

Eric Reinhart

Policing for Profit

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

Dahlia Lithwick

Putin’s Plan

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