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The Trump administration is playing a game of choose your own facts, but every single version of this story ends with screaming children in cages.

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“I Really Don’t Care” Sums Up This Presidency

Jeff Bezos Will Lose Zero Sleep Over the Supreme Court’s Sales Tax Decision

Bezos Hired a New Yorker Writer to Run His Health Care Startup. Excellent Choice.

A U.S. Senator Describes Meeting Mothers Whose Children Were Torn Away at the Border

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Can This Viral Campaign Ad Make a Difference in Deep-Red Texas?

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ABC Is Bringing Back Roseanne Without Roseanne

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Former McCain Campaign Manager Quits GOP, Calls It a Party of “Feckless Cowards”

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Excuses Argentina Can Use to Explain Its Meltdown Against Croatia

Dear Prudence

Help! My Boyfriend Claimed He Was Sexually Harassed. I Have Proof He Lied.

Bragging about being overworked is not a badge of honor.

The New Yorker’s Sexually Charged Incredibles 2 Review Doesn’t Deserve Your Outrage

Why Half of the World’s Used Plastic Ends Up in China

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God Save Texas Is an Intimate, Nuanced State Portrait—With One Blind Spot

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ABC Is Bringing Back Roseanne, Without Roseanne

Sen. Chris Van Hollen Describes Meeting Mothers Whose Children Were Torn Away at the Border

Influential Conservative Commentator Charles Krauthammer Dies at 68

Why Haven’t the Obituaries for Koko the Ape Talked About Her Purported Nipple Fetish?

Jeff Bezos Will Lose Zero Sleep Over the Supreme Court’s Decision to End Tax-Free Online Shopping

House Republicans’ Immigration Plan Is on Life Support

Splinter News Doxed Stephen Miller, and Twitter Tried to Stop It

“Family Values” Conservatism Is Finally Dead

Trump Fixed Nothing Today

The Damage Is Done

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Simpsons Writer Mike Reiss on His Favorite Episode and How the Show Changed TV

ABC Is Bringing Back Roseanne, Without Roseanne

Excuses Argentina Can Use to Explain its Total Meltdown Against Croatia

Paul Pogba Can Do Anything, Even Get France’s Lackluster Offense to Score a Goal

The New Yorker’s Incredibles 2 Review Sexualizing Elastigirl Doesn’t Deserve Your Outrage

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Secret Service Notified After Peter Fonda Suggests Putting Barron Trump “in a Cage”

The Feds Love to Stack Charges When It Comes to Cybercrime

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After Having a “Consensual Relationship” at Work, Brian Krzanich Is Out as Intel’s CEO

What It’s Like When Google Uses Your Picture Under Results for “Bitcoin Bro” and “Crying Liberal”

Splinter News Doxed Stephen Miller, and Twitter Tried to Stop It

Instagram Wants Its New Video App to Be the Vertical YouTube

Why Haven’t the Obituaries for Koko the Ape Talked About Her Purported Nipple Fetish?

My Kid Doesn’t Want to Volunteer. Is She Hopelessly Selfish?

The Melania Jacket Is the Apotheosis of the “Words Don’t Matter” Presidency

Rabbit Holes: Why I Enjoy Clicking Through the Thumping World of Type Beats

Federal Courts Are Standing Up for the Sanctity of Transgender Lives

Who Would Buy Gucci’s $1,600 Hawaiian-Print Dad Ensemble?

How a Drag Queen Pulls Off the Perfect Lip Sync

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Trump’s Bizarre Tangent About Canadian Shoe Smugglers, Explained

Jeff Bezos Just Hired a New Yorker Writer to Run His Health Care Startup. Excellent Choice.

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Elon Musk Is Trying to Redefine Socialism as … Capitalism

Elizabeth Holmes Deserves Prison, but Her Indictment Won’t Make Silicon Valley Any Less Reckless

Maybe This One Dumb Chart Explains the Economy

Jeff Bezos Will Lose Zero Sleep Over the Supreme Court’s Decision to End Tax-Free Online Shopping

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Sen. Chris Van Hollen Describes Meeting Mothers Whose Children Were Torn Away at the Border

Influential Conservative Commentator Charles Krauthammer Dies at 68

House Republicans’ Immigration Plan Is on Life Support

Senator May Have Found Way To Force Release of Secret Trump Travel Ban Numbers

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