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Why Is Nicki Minaj Doing This? There Are Some Dark Theories.

Why Alanis Morissette Is Disowning the New Documentary About Her

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The Deeper Issue With Amy Coney Barrett Promising the Court Isn’t Partisan

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The Missing Link in Biden’s Revolutionary Solar Energy Plan

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“Men’s Rights Asians” Think This Is Their Moment

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The Eyes of Tammy Faye Will Change the Way You Think of Jessica Chastain

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Dear Prudence Uncensored: “Ambivalent IVFer”

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Norm Macdonald’s Memoir Was Mostly Lies, but One Part Rings True

What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Impeachment’s Episode About the Clinton–Lewinsky Affair

The Missing Link in Biden’s Revolutionary Solar Energy Plan

The Eyes of Tammy Faye Will Change the Way You Think of Jessica Chastain

Why Is Nicki Minaj Doing This? There Are Some Dark Theories.

Let Me Say This With As Much Sensitivity As I Can: Wow, That’s a Lot of Dead People and Crime

Why Is Nicki Minaj Doing This? There Are Some Dark Theories.

Charli D’Amelio Has Girlbossed Her Way Too Close to the Sun

The Broader Problem With Amy Coney Barrett Promising the Court Isn’t Partisan

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Norm Macdonald’s Memoir Was Mostly Lies, but One Part Rings True

What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Impeachment’s Episode About the Clinton–Lewinsky Affair

The Eyes of Tammy Faye Will Change the Way You Think of Jessica Chastain

Why Alanis Morissette Is Disowning the New Documentary About Her

Norm Macdonald Never Stopped Bulls–tting

The Horror Movie Whose Monster Is a COVID Denier

You Really, Really Need to Update Your iPhone and Other Apple Devices

I Inherited Some Land With a Disturbing History

The Liberation of Paris From Cars Is Working

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“Men’s Rights Asians” Think This Is Their Moment

What COVID and the Vaccine Really Do to the Penis

Inflation Is Cooling Off

The Missing Link in Biden’s Revolutionary Solar Energy Plan

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How to Handle a Makeup-Obsessed Toddler

Dear Prudence Uncensored: “Ambivalent IVFer”

Help! My COVID-Conspiracist Husband Made an Ominous Threat if I Get the Vaccine.

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There’s No Right to Infect Your Co-Workers

The Plight of the Delivery Worker

Larry Elder Is Not Going Anywhere

Pennsylvania’s So-Called Election Audit Is Another Attempt to Discredit Trump’s 2020 Loss

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Let Me Say This With As Much Sensitivity As I Can: Wow, That’s a Lot of Dead People and Crime