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Eternals Is a Disaster of Intergalactic Proportions

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New Jersey Is the Best-Run State in America

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Culture

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Maybe Shiv Roy Just Sucks

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Three Trials in America Are Demonstrating the Limits of Our Justice System

World Series

What Could Finally Kill the Tomahawk Chop

Transit

How Cars Became a Preferred Weapon for Domestic Extremists

Where the Heck Are We Going to Charge All of the Electric Cars?

Entertainment

Netflix’s New No. 1 Show Found Something Worse Than Serial Killers

The Rise and Fall of the Comedian Who Revolutionized Stand-Up

Halloween

All Hail the Only Candy That’s Learned From Its Mistakes

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Ross Douthat, Conservative Pundit, Is Actually Exactly What the Chronic Lyme “Debate” Needs

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Smithsonian Futures

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Dear Prudence Uncensored: Not What Mom Wanted

Help! Accommodating My Unvaccinated Friend Has Become an Exhausting Chore.

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My Husband Is Refusing to Take His Paid Paternity Leave, and I’m Furious

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New Jersey Is the Best-Run State in America

Maybe Shiv Roy Just Sucks

If You Want to Play the Best Game of 2021, Don’t Read This

Not Everything We Watch Has to Be “Meaningful.” This Series Proves It.

What Could Finally Kill the Tomahawk Chop

Eternals Is a Disaster of Intergalactic Proportions

Netflix’s New No. 1 Show Found Something Worse Than Serial Killers

The Rise and Fall of the Comedian Who Revolutionized Stand-Up

Zillow Just Pressed Pause on Flipping Houses

What Mark Zuckerberg Really Means When He Talks About the Metaverse

There Are at Least Two Extremely Good Things to Celebrate in Biden’s New Build Back Better Plan

Where the Heck Are We Going to Charge All of the Electric Cars?

Imagine a Sport That Allows Athletes of All Abilities to Compete on an Equal Playing Field

Can There Be Ethical Investment in Asteroid Mining?

Read a Near-Future Story About a Very Different Way of Seeing Trees

Ross Douthat, Conservative Pundit, Is Actually Exactly What the Chronic Lyme “Debate” Needs

The Strange New Trend That’s Enraging Hiring Managers

How To Keep Your Toddler Entertained (or at Least Not Screaming) on a Long Flight

Dear Prudence Uncensored: Not What Mom Wanted

Help! I Framed My Stepsister for a Crime as a Child. The Grown-Up Aftermath Has Been Disastrous.

Dear Care and Feeding: My Daughter’s Teacher is Seriously Behind the Times

Can Horror Movies Escape Their Anti-Feminist Origins?

Why Is a Catholic Bishop Tweeting About a QAnon Convention?

Laughing at Capitol Insurrectionists’ Misfortune in Jail Misses the Point

If China Wants to Waste Its Money on Missiles, We Should Let It

The Entire Republican Leadership Is Covering Up Trump’s Coup Attempt

The Defamation Suits That Could Help Put an End to Trump’s Big Lie

Why Five of Kyrsten Sinema’s Advisers Just Quit

How Passenger Vehicles Became a Preferred Weapon for Domestic Extremists

Three Trials in America Are Demonstrating the Limits of Our Justice System

What? What Is This? What Is This, Mitt Romney and Kyrsten Sinema?