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Julia Craven
Sam Adams, Jonathan L. Fischer, and Allegra Frank
Alex Kirshner
Joshua Keating
Evan Urquhart
Rebecca Onion
William Saletan
Anna Rao
Watching Joss Whedon’s and Zack Snyder’s versions back to back is like attending a six-hour film studies course.
Sam Adams
Elliot Hannon
What’s worth your time
Chloé Zhao’s movie stars Frances McDormand as a woman who lives out of a van, but shies away from the circumstances that put her there.
Where we’re headed
An excerpt from Carl Zimmer’s new book, Life’s Edge.
An honest guide to modern life
Checking in on how people feel about their vaccinated partners.
What really matters
What would our laws look like if we stopped treating migration as a problem to be solved?