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Donda 2, only available on the rapper’s Stem Player, is the most bizarre release from a major artist in memory.

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Educators are under siege for teaching “CRT.” But curriculum isn’t everything.

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This Beloved Confederate General Was One of the Worst Military Leaders in History

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The Real Reason the “People’s Convoy” Is Protesting Just Outside of the Nation’s Capital

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Pence Rebukes Trump (Again): No Room in GOP “for Apologists for Putin”

Celebrities

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My Dad’s New Girlfriend Is Seriously Creeping Me Out

Did the Best Music Streaming Platform Just Sell Out?

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COVID-19

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How to Understand Your Risk of COVID Right Now

A New Memoir About Chronic Illness Made Me Feel the Chilling Reality of the COVID Crisis

I don't at all push my (lack of) religion on them, but can I gently ask them to knock this off?

Help! My Anti-Vax Mother-in-Law Has Long COVID—and Now She Wants to Move In With Us.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: “My Sister or My Values”

Help! My Co-Workers Keep Spreading a False Rumor About Me.

Help! My Girlfriend Demanded I Throw Out My Dead Wife’s Furniture.

I Don’t Understand How Other Men Pull Off a Certain “Steamy” Sex Trick

Ukraine Asked Lawmakers Not to Share Photos of Zelensky During Call. Two GOP Senators Did it Anyway.

Pretty Much No One Is Using Trump’s New Social Media App (Not Even Trump)

The Real Reason the “People’s Convoy” Is Protesting Just Outside of the Nation’s Capital

Pence Rebukes Trump (Again): No Room in GOP “for Apologists for Putin”

Help! My In-Laws Think Jesus Is Going to Help Us Find a New House.

Dear Care and Feeding: My Dad’s New Girlfriend Is Seriously Creeping Me Out

How Angry Should Other Writers Be About Brandon Sanderson’s $22 Million Kickstarter?

An Anti-Vax Judge Is Preventing the Navy From Deploying a Warship

The Most Uncanny Part of Watching the War in Ukraine

This Week Dropped Several Legal Bombshells on Trump

Kanye West’s Music Player Asks You to Pay $200 to Make His Music Worse

Who Isn’t a Nepotism Baby?

Netflix’s New Hit Is Terrible as History—but Fantastic as a Delivery System for Sexy Vikings

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Did the Best Music Streaming Platform Just Sell Out?

Ukrainian American Poet Ilya Kaminsky on His Viral Poem and Watching a War From Afar

Remixes Are DJ Tools and Audience Builders

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Kim Kardashian’s and Pete Davidson’s Mental Health Is at Stake, Too

Oh Great, Russian Propaganda Is Colliding With Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theories

How to Understand Your Risk of COVID Right Now

The Real Reason Health Care Workers Are Quitting in Droves

My Sister Just Cut Off Our Elderly Parents for the Absolute Worst Reason

How Much Can Elon Musk’s Starlink Help if Ukraine’s Internet Goes Down?

Ukraine Is Winning the Information War With Russia

It Never Seems to Be a Good Time to Talk About Teachers’ Racism

Help! My In-Laws Think Jesus Is Going to Help Us Find a New House.

Dear Care and Feeding: My Dad’s New Girlfriend Is Seriously Creeping Me Out

Help! My Anti-Vax Mother-in-Law Has Long COVID—and Now She Wants to Move In With Us.

My Girlfriend Insists on Using Mindfulness Apps Instead of Going to Therapy

Dear Care and Feeding: Our Daughter’s Athletic Struggle Is Making Our Family Miserable

Dear Care and Feeding: My Brother Is Constantly Telling His 5-Year-Old That He Is Going to Die.

This Year’s State of the Union Addressed All the Things Eating Democrats Alive

Pretty Much No One Is Using Trump’s New Social Media App (Not Even Trump)

The Real Reason the “People’s Convoy” Is Protesting Just Outside of the Nation’s Capital

Pence Rebukes Trump (Again): No Room in GOP “for Apologists for Putin”

Talk Is Cheap, but “Cheap Speech” Could Cost Us Democracy

This Beloved Confederate General Was One of the Worst Military Leaders in History

The Republican Senator Driving Mitch McConnell Crazy

Ukraine Asked Lawmakers Not to Share Photos of Zelensky During Call. Two GOP Senators Did it Anyway.