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Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher

Tech Trouble

Chrissy Teigen Is a Cyberbully. Could It Sink Her Career?

Republicans

GOP AZ Election Official Blasts “Unhinged” Trump: “Insane Lies”

Liz Cheney Regrets Voting for Trump, Warns GOP Headed in “Dangerous” Direction

Alexander Borsa, Marion Boulicault, Meredith Reiches, and Sarah S. Richardson

Galaxy Brain

The Doomsday Sperm Theory Embraced by the Far Right

Care and Feeding

I Can’t Bear My In-Laws’ Silent Judgment

Emily Gould

Mare of Easttown’s Big Twist Changes Everything

Willa Paskin

I Just … Can’t Do What My New Boyfriend Wants During Sex

How to Do It

Screen Time

The Weirdest Possible Movie to Start a Romance

Heather Schwedel

Wait, What Just Happened on The Nevers?

Sam Adams

Everything We Know About the Friends Reunion

They use all kinds of vile names for me, including ‘white trailer trash’ and ‘inbred.’

Help! I Caught My Son in a Compromising Position With a Vacuum Cleaner.

Help! The Way My Husband Expresses His Emotions Scares Me. A Lot.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: Never Been Kissed

Help! My Cat Caught My Friend Spying on Me Having Sex.

Pay Dirt

My Sister Wants My Roommate Gone—so She Can Live With Me for Free

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Nadia Owusu

One Book Nearly Swept This Year’s Awards. Why Didn’t Publishers Want It?

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Emily Gould

Dear Care and Feeding: I Can’t Bear My In-Laws’ Silent Judgment

Nilay Saiya

Strongmen Don’t Fight Terrorism. They Fuel It.

Sarah Halle Corey

How Tina Fey Is Making Up for Her Problematic Past

What Next

Mask Off?

Matthew Dessem

John Oliver Accuses Israel of Committing War Crimes, Practicing Apartheid

Everything We Know About the Friends Reunion

Matthew Dessem

Largest Nurses’ Union Condemns New CDC Guidance on Masks: “Not Based on Science”

Daniel Politi

Child Reporter Who Interviewed President Obama as an 11-Year-Old Dies at 23

Daniel Politi

Wait, What Just Happened on The Nevers?

Joss Whedon’s last episode of the HBO series drops a bomb on its Victorian cosmos.

Sam Adams

Culture

What’s worth your time

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The Bananas Twists of The Woman in the Window, Explained

Netflix’s ridiculous new thriller manages to simultaneously borrow elements of The Sixth Sense, Fight Club, and Copycat.

One Book Nearly Swept This Year’s Awards. Why Didn’t Publishers Want It?

Nadia Owusu

How Tina Fey Is Making Up for Her Problematic Past

Sarah Halle Corey

John Oliver Accuses Israel of Committing War Crimes, Practicing Apartheid

Mare of Easttown’s Big Twist Changes Everything

Willa Paskin

Wait, What Just Happened on The Nevers?

Sam Adams

Wanna See Keegan-Michael Key and Kenan Thompson Beat Up Statler and Waldorf?

Henry Grabar and Jordan Weissmann

Tech & Business

Where we’re headed

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How Menthol Cigarettes Became Black Americans’ Preferred Smoke

Julia Craven

And how an FDA ban could unwind decades of public health damage.

About the Time We Said We’d Vote for Andrew Yang …

The Doomsday Sperm Theory Embraced by the Far Right

Alexander Borsa, Marion Boulicault, Meredith Reiches, and Sarah S. Richardson

Twitter Is a Cauldron of Misinformation About the Arizona 2020 Vote Audit

Gowri Ramachandran

Watching the U.S. Reopen When Only 1.5 Percent of Your Country Has Been Vaccinated

Delia Marinescu

Everyone Agrees California’s Parking Laws Are Bad for Cities. So Why Do Planners Like Them?

Henry Grabar

Bitcoin and Dogecoin Are at Elon Musk’s Mercy

Aaron Mak

My Sister Wants My Roommate Gone—so She Can Live With Me for Free

Athena Valentine

Human Interest

An honest guide to modern life

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A Doctor Who Convinced People in a Bar to Get the Vaccine for Free Beer on What They’re Telling Her

Aymann Ismail

She found something different than skepticism.

Dear Care and Feeding: I Can’t Bear My In-Laws’ Silent Judgment

Emily Gould

Sex With My New Boyfriend Is the Best I’ve Ever Had—but He Has One Request I Can’t Quite Pull Off

Stoya and Rich Juzwiak

Help! I Caught My Son in a Compromising Position With a Vacuum Cleaner.

Slate Staff

The Most Radical Advice Columnist of the 1920s

Rebecca Onion

Dear Care and Feeding: How Do I Know If I’m Really Done Having Kids?

Michelle Herman

Help! I’m a Staunch Republican. My Boyfriend’s Friends Hate Me.

Danny M. Lavery

News & Politics

What really matters

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How Close Are We to Criminal Charges for Donald Trump?

Dahlia Lithwick

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara on accountability, Rudy, and the death of truth.

Mask Off?

What Next

Israeli Airstrikes Kill at Least 42 in Gaza as U.N. Warns of “Uncontainable” Crisis

Liz Cheney Regrets Voting for Trump, Warns GOP Headed in “Dangerous” Direction

GOP Arizona Election Official Blasts “Unhinged” Trump: “Insane Lies”

Largest Nurses’ Union Condemns New CDC Guidance on Masks: “Not Based on Science”

Child Reporter Who Interviewed President Obama as an 11-Year-Old Dies at 23