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My Husband’s Weird Sex Rules Are Driving Me Crazy

John Oliver Tells Fellow White People What to Know About Black Hair

A Radical Plan to Stop Rising Rents by Seizing Apartments From Landlords

“It’s Been Hard Not to Roll My Eyes”: Essential Workers Are Already Over Your Whining About Returning to Work

Melinda Gates Reportedly Meeting With Divorce Lawyers Since 2019

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Saturday Night Live Jumps on the Mare of Easttown Bandwagon With a Gritty New Crime Show

Why So Many People Are Horny for This 10-Foot-Tall Vampire Lady

John Oliver Tells Fellow White People What to Know About Black Hair

SNL Jumps on the Mare of Easttown Bandwagon With a Gritty New Crime Show

Every Joke in Elon Musk’s SNL Monologue, Ranked From “Actually Funny” to “Huh!”

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” Is So Popular It’s Actually Become a Problem for Him

So You’ve Been Banned on Twitter

The Horror Game Even Scaredy Cats Should Play

Indian Government to 1.4 Billion People: Want a Vaccine? Learn How to Code.

Spotify Is Overrun With Artist Impostors. I Tracked Some Down.

“This Is Slow Murder”: How My Hometown Has Been Silently Killing Us

Elon Musk’s SNL Episode Was a Real Rollercoaster for Dogecoin

What Soccer and the Facebook Oversight Board Have in Common

My Grandmother Says She’ll Stop Sending Me Money Unless I Get Pregnant

The 2017 Battle Over Net Neutrality Somehow Keeps Getting Weirder

Bananas Are in Trouble. Can Genetically Modified Fruit Help?

Is Billie Eilish’s “Big Reveal” Really So Shocking?

Help! My Father-in-Law Pushed My 3-Year-Old Daughter.

My Husband’s Weird Sex Rules Are Driving Me Crazy

Dear Care and Feeding: My Husband’s Horrific Eating Habits Are Rubbing Off on Our Kid

“It’s Been Hard Not to Roll My Eyes”: Essential Workers Are Already Over Your Whining About Returning to Work

I Can’t Get Over What My Wife Does Every Time We Finish Sex

Help! My Husband Wants to Move Out for a Year—and Leave His Kids

Elise Stefanik Is a Special Kind of Realist

Do Not Ignore the Atrocities Still Happening in Syria

A Radical Plan to Stop Rising Rents by Seizing Apartments From Landlords

I Was a Teenager in a Syrian Prison

GOP Rep. Kinzinger Likens Republican Party to Titanic

Melinda Gates Reportedly Meeting With Divorce Lawyers Since 2019

McCarthy Formally Endorses Elise Stefanik to Replace Liz Cheney as No. 3 House Republican

The Simple Reason Why Devastating Cyberattacks Keep Happening

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