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Joe Biden and Merrick Garland are acting like Donald Trump was a crazy dream. But the threat to American democracy will only get worse the longer we ignore it.

What Was Vladimir Putin Talking About After His Summit With Biden?

Yana Pashaeva

Trump Made the GOP More Friendly to Putin. It’s Sabotaging Biden.

William Saletan

If You Want to Reform the Police, Get Prosecutors on Your Side

Carissa Byrne Hessick and Gabrielle Supak

What Biden and Putin’s Meeting Accomplished for Both Leaders

Fred Kaplan

Democrats Should Leap at the Chance to Take Joe Manchin’s Deal

Richard L. Hasen

21 House Republicans Voted Against Awarding a Medal to the Police for Defending the Capitol Jan. 6

Elliot Hannon

Conservative Judges Keep Doing This Thing They Say They Hate

Mark Joseph Stern

Democrats Should Leap at the Chance to Take Joe Manchin’s Deal

Trump Pushed the GOP to Embrace Putin. It’s Sabotaging Biden.

What the Heck Was Putin Talking About After His Summit With Biden?

Conservative Judges Keep Issuing Orders They Claim to Hate

Evictions

Millions of Americans Are About to Lose Their Homes

Late Night

Jon Stewart Embraced the Lab Leak Theory on Colbert. Was He Joking?

Policing

What It Means When the Pulitzers Honor a Reluctant Journalist

If You Want to Reform the Police, Get Prosecutors on Your Side

Screen Time

The Secret to Owen Wilson’s Appeal

Disney World Just Toyed With Legions of Superfans Over a Noodle Dish

Luca Is Missing a Key Piece of the Pixar Formula

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An Interview With the Colorado Realtor Who’s Trying to Sell a Vandalized “Slice of Hell”

My Grandparents Gave My Dad Several Million Dollars to Buy a Business—but Won’t Pay My College Tuition

sports

What France vs. Germany Tells Us About Euro 2020

The New College Football Playoff Proposal Would Transform the Sport

Why Baseball Pitchers Are Slathering Themselves With Goo

If he loses a game, it can color his mood for days.

Help! My Relationship Makes Me Seem Like Something I’m Not.

Help! I Have a Huge Crush on My Therapist.

Help! My Son’s 24-Year-Old Nanny Just Said She Has a “Serious Crush” on Me.

Help! My Longtime Friend Didn’t Tell Me She Had Cancer.

My In-Laws Called My Culture “Backwards”

An Interview With the Colorado Realtor Who’s Trying to Sell a Vandalized “Slice of Hell”

Conservative Judges Keep Doing This Thing They Say They Hate

What Was Vladimir Putin Talking About After His Summit With Biden?

Trump Made the GOP More Friendly to Putin. It’s Sabotaging Biden.

The Secret to Owen Wilson’s Appeal

If You Want to Reform the Police, Get Prosecutors on Your Side

We Danced Together. I Took Him Home. Then I Discovered He May Have Been a Serial Killer.

Jon Stewart Embraced the Lab Leak Theory on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Was He Joking?

Billie Eilish Loves Girls. Great!

My Grandparents Gave My Dad Several Million Dollars to Buy a Business—but Won’t Pay My College Tuition

The Curious Case of “Herlock Sholmès”

The Secret to Owen Wilson’s Appeal

TikTok’s Latest Trend Is Making Commercials

What France vs. Germany Tells Us About Euro 2020

Why the Controversy Over In the Heights’ Light-Skinned Cast Rages On

Luca Is Missing a Key Piece of the Pixar Formula

Disney World Just Toyed With Legions of Superfans Over a Noodle Dish

What Happened When a 3,000-Person Village in El Salvador Became “Bitcoin Beach”

Millions of Americans Are About to Lose Their Homes

Democrats Want to Pay for the Whole Infrastructure Bill. It’s Self-Defeating and Doesn’t Even Make Economic Sense.

The Only Way the Biden Administration Can Get Anywhere With Russia on Cybersecurity

What’s Actually Causing Prices to Spike

The Most Devastating Harms of the Rush for Electric Cars

The False Comfort of Human Oversight as an Antidote to A.I. Harm

My Grandparents Gave My Dad Several Million Dollars to Buy a Business—but Won’t Pay My College Tuition

A Close Read of the Important New Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez Make-Out Video

An Interview With the Colorado Realtor Who’s Trying to Sell a Vandalized “Slice of Hell”

Help! My Relationship Makes Me Seem Like Something I’m Not.

Julien Baker’s Quantum Queerness

I Know My Kid Is Nonbinary, but Do They Have to Use the “Wrong” Bathroom?

We Danced Together. I Took Him Home. Then I Discovered He May Have Been a Serial Killer.

I’ve Noticed the No-Strings-Attached Sex I Love has an … Unexpected Effect on Men

The Price of No Consequences for Trump

What Was Vladimir Putin Talking About After His Summit With Biden?

Trump Made the GOP More Friendly to Putin. It’s Sabotaging Biden.

If You Want to Reform the Police, Get Prosecutors on Your Side

What Biden and Putin’s Meeting Accomplished for Both Leaders

Democrats Should Leap at the Chance to Take Joe Manchin’s Deal

21 House Republicans Voted Against Awarding a Medal to the Police for Defending the Capitol Jan. 6

Conservative Judges Keep Doing This Thing They Say They Hate