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Resistance-Fantasy Twitter Is Speculating Wildly About Mueller’s Report, Having a Blast

Fox News Declares Total Victory for Trump, Doesn’t Need to Read the Report

Why Barr Will Probably Withhold Some of Mueller’s Findings

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Some Music Theorists Are Furious About the Bach Google Doodle

How to Stop People From Seeing if You’ve Opened Their Emails

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This Book Epitomizes Nauseating White House Palace Intrigue

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U.S.-Backed Forces Destroy ISIS’s Last Stronghold in Syria

Bonkers Presidential Election Features Two Candidates With the Same Name

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Why Anti-LGBTQ Activists Are Obsessed With “Gender Ideology”

My Cranky Old Dog Has No Friends

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How Scary Is Us? Consult Our Scientific System to Judge if It’s Too Scary for You.

My problem is that I just don’t believe in the supernatural.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Boyfriend’s Daughter

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Dear Prudence Podcast: Help! My Friend Can’t Afford Our Fancy Dinners, but Still Wants to Be Invited.

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Oh No, Barbra Streisand Has Thoughts About Michael Jackson!

The Fletcher Magee of the NBA Plays for Golden State and He’s Named Steph

Resistance-Fantasy Twitter Is Speculating Wildly About the Mueller Report, Having a Blast

The New Javanka Book Epitomizes the Juicy, Nauseating Genre of White House Palace-Intrigue Reporting

Jury Acquits White Former Officer in Killing of Unarmed Black Teen

U.S.-Backed Forces in Syria Destroy Last ISIS Stronghold, Eliminate “Caliphate”

Dear Care and Feeding: My Mother-in-Law Insists on Seeing Our Daughter Without Us. That’s Weird, Right?

How Tucker Carlson Conned America Into Thinking His Heinous Opinions Don’t Matter

A List of All the Trump Figures Who Apparently Won’t Be Indicted by Robert Mueller

Trump’s Man in Mexico

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Oh No, Barbra Streisand Has Thoughts About Michael Jackson!

The Fletcher Magee of the NBA Plays for Golden State and He’s Named Steph

The New Javanka Book Epitomizes the Juicy, Nauseating Genre of White House Palace-Intrigue Reporting

No One Will Scream at Tom Izzo for Screaming at His Players

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Some Music Theorists Are Furious About the Bach Google Doodle

How to Turn Off Email Trackers

The Problem With San Francisco’s Proposal to Ban Vaping

Is Our Love of Warm Weather Causing Us to Shrug Off Global Warming?

Why Facebook’s Latest Privacy Snafu Is Particularly Gross

What Good Are Facts if We Only Use Them as Clubs to Hurt Other People?

Is Sarah Michelle Gellar’s “Mug Cake” a Tribute to Human Ingenuity or a Sign of the End Times?

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Donald Trump Is Nominating a Hack CNN Pundit For the Federal Reserve

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A Health Insurance CEO Shares His Thoughts on Medicare for All

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Trump’s North Korea Strategy Is an Incoherent Mess

Resistance-Fantasy Twitter Is Speculating Wildly About the Mueller Report, Having a Blast

Jury Acquits White Former Officer in Killing of Unarmed Black Teen

U.S.-Backed Forces in Syria Destroy Last ISIS Stronghold, Eliminate “Caliphate”

Fox News Didn’t Need to Read the Mueller Report to Declare Total Victory for Donald Trump

A List of Trump Figures Who Apparently Won’t Be Indicted by Robert Mueller

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