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How to Determine How Much Barr Redacted

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Mueller Report Live Blog: I Guess We’re Starting With Barr Giving His Version of Events Again

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Molly Olmstead

The Release of the Report Already Seems Like a Cover-Up

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Don’t Rebuild It. There’s No Restoring What’s Been Lost.

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Police Are Making Tone-Deaf Memes to Build Community Trust

April Glaser

Ask a Teacher

A Homophobic Student Regularly Calls Me Anti-Gay Slurs. Should I Confront Him?

Matthew Dicks , Brandon Hersey , and Cassy Sarnell

The Conversation Starts Here

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The Natural Next Step for Meghan and Harry’s Public Persona

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Withholding their baby from the cameras follows a modern custom set by a different sort of royalty.

What Happened to Winter on Game of Thrones?

Inkoo Kang

The yearslong seasons were a fascinating part of the books. The show basically dropped them.

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This Was the Most Exciting Soccer Match of the Year

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Not even instant replay could ruin it.

Should You Work Out in a Freezing Cold Gym?

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The Best College Gymnast in America Is Also the Most Hated

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Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Flirtatious Neighbor

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Dear Prudence Podcast: Help! My Friend Treats Me Like an Unpaid Therapist.

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How Three Kings almost fell apart.

Even Instant Replay Couldn’t Ruin the Most Exciting Soccer Match of the Year

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What Happened to Winter on Game of Thrones?

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Beyoncé’s Surprise Coachella Album Includes Two New Tracks

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Notre Dame Is Still a Living Monument

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How to Scan Your Airbnb for Hidden Cameras

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Making Sense of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

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Future Tense Newsletter: A Theory of Conspiracy

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The Courts and Canada Are Doing What the U.S. Government Won’t on Data Breaches

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Ethics Alone Can’t Fix Big Tech

Daniel Susser

We Just Named a Blind Amphibian After Donald Trump. Should We Have?

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Meghan and Harry’s Decision Not to Dangle Their Newborn Before the Press Is the Natural Next Step in Their Self-Branding

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Some of the 2020 Dems Should Really Be Giving a Lot More to Charity

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What Trump Should Have Passed Instead of The Tax Bill That Everyone Hates

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The New Interior Secretary Means Business. Big Business.

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When the Spire Falls

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The Release of the Mueller Report Already Seems Like a Coverup

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