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Why Did the CDC Change Its Mask Guidance Now?

The Laughable Phenomenon of “Ethical” Ransomware Operators

The GOP Governors Kicking People Off Unemployment Are Doing a Crap Job Vaccinating Their States

A Public Health Expert on When She Will and Won’t Wear a Mask

Los Angeles Has a Plan to Disarm the NIMBYs

The California City That Sends a Drone Almost Every Time Police Are Dispatched on a 911 Call

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My Partner Doesn’t Like Oral Sex, so I Had an Affair

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Help! My Sister-in-Law Has No Problem Saying She Would Have Aborted Her Son.

My Manager Hates Me. What Should I Do?

Dear Care and Feeding: My Husband’s Anger Issues Have Us Headed Straight Toward Disaster

Help! My Daughter Is Determined to Move Out Even if She Ends Up Homeless.

Is This the Third Intifada?

The Academic Story of African American English Has Been Wrong All Along

Arizona Republican Officials Call State GOP Election Audit a “Sham” and a “Con”

Our Very Weird Economic Recovery

The Key Details That Have Emerged About Bill and Melinda Gates’ “Irretrievably Broken” Marriage

Elena Kagan Has Had Enough of Brett Kavanaugh’s Judicial “Scorekeeping”

The Supreme Court Is Taking Direct Aim at Roe v. Wade

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