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I Found ClickHole’s “Worst Person You Know”

Cameron Wilson

Capitol Riot

The DHS Office That Found “No Major Incidents” on Jan. 6 Needs to Be Disbanded

Aki Peritz

Abortion

The Case That Threatens the Right to Use Birth Control, Marry, and Even Make Choices About Sex

David H. Gans

Tech Troubles

Are Russians Using Microwave Tech to Attack Americans?

Mary Harris

What Happens When Airbnb Swallows Your Neighborhood

Mary Wilson

Health

The Kind of Cringeworthy Way to Fix the Kidney Shortage

Magdi Semrau

Fashion

How a Genius Invention Freed Midcentury Women Like Lucille Ball to Be Pregnant in Public

Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick

“Oh, Your Hearing Won’t Be Coming Back”

Drew Magary

After surviving a traumatic brain injury and a coma, I was prepared for baddish news—but not for it to be delivered so swiftly and decisively.

What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in the Impeachment Episode About Monica Lewinsky’s Interrogation

Ellin Stein

Advice

My Boyfriend’s Been Living With Me Rent-Free for Four Years

Pay Dirt

It’s 2:40 a.m. and I’m Getting Desperate

Care and Feeding

My Husband Told Me His Longest-Held Sexual Secret. I’m Not Sure How to Respond.

How to Do It

Now I can’t seem to feel emotionally connected to him.

Help! My Toddler’s Day Care Manager Believes in QAnon.

Help! My Wife of 30 Years Has No Idea I’m About to Leave Her.

Help! My Mother’s Massive Reply-All Mistake Has Caused a Family Breakdown.

Help! My Family Has Weaponized Holiday Presents Against Me.

How to Do It

I Think My Boyfriend Is Lying to Me About a Major Part of Our Sex Life

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Aki Peritz

The DHS Office That Found “No Major Incidents” on Jan. 6 Needs to Be Disbanded

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Elizabeth Spiers

My Boyfriend’s Been Living With Me Rent-Free for Four Years

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Mary Harris

Are Russians Using Microwave Tech to Attack Americans?

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Dahlia Lithwick

The Biggest Thing Court Watchers Are Getting Wrong About SCOTUS

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Lowen Liu

Dear Care and Feeding: It’s 2:40 a.m. and I’m Getting Desperate

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Dana Stevens

Matt Damon. Ben Affleck. A Medieval #MeToo Story. What Could Go Wrong?

My Son’s Generous College Fund Vanished. I Think I Know Who Took It.

Athena Valentine

Jon Gruden Is the NFL

Alex Kirshner

The Reason Southwest Airlines Had an Epic Meltdown This Weekend

Aaron Mak

“What Exactly Is the Plan for Us?”

For the immunocompromised, the pandemic has been scarier, riskier, and longer. And with vaccines not offering safety, the question is: What will?

Tim Requarth

Culture

What it all means

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John Mulaney and the Great Celebrity-Sympathy Overcorrection

Lili Loofbourow

Matt Damon. Ben Affleck. A Medieval #MeToo Story. What Could Go Wrong?

Dana Stevens

I Found ClickHole’s “Worst Person You Know”

Cameron Wilson

Reservation Dogs is Hilariously Unapologetic

Culture Gabfest

The Disney Channel Star Who Mastered the YouTube Algorithm

ICYMI

What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in the Impeachment Episode About Monica Lewinsky’s Interrogation

Ellin Stein

The Importance of Ricardo Pepi

Hang Up and Listen

Tech & Business

Where we’re headed

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If Social Media Can Be Unsafe for Kids, What Happens in VR?

Catherine Buni

Mark Zuckerberg recently predicted that Facebook will be a “metaverse company” in five years. What does that mean for kids?

Do We Have a New Tool for Saving the Planet—or Just Another False Promise?

Emily Pontecorvo

“Oh, Your Hearing Won’t Be Coming Back”

Drew Magary

The Reason Southwest Airlines Had an Epic Meltdown This Weekend

Aaron Mak

My Son’s Generous College Fund Vanished. I Think I Know Who Took It.

Athena Valentine

What Happens When Airbnb Swallows Your Neighborhood

Mary Wilson

There Is No Such Thing as Bragging Too Much About a Kidney Donation

Magdi Semrau

My Boyfriend’s Been Living With Me Rent-Free for Four Years

Elizabeth Spiers

Human Interest

An honest guide to modern life

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Is the German Catholic Church Going Rogue or Saving Itself?

Molly Olmstead

Dear Care and Feeding: It’s 2:40 a.m. and I’m Getting Desperate

Lowen Liu

Help! My Toddler’s Day Care Manager Believes in QAnon.

Jenée Desmond-Harris

Help! I Am Disturbed by What My Boyfriend Revealed to Me in Therapy.

Jenée Desmond-Harris

Is It Really That Cruel to Ghost?

Big Mood Little Mood

My Husband Just Told Me His Longest-Held Sexual Secret. I’m Not Sure What to Do With This Revelation.

Rich Juzwiak and Jessica Stoya

Help! My Wife of 30 Years Has No Idea I’m About to Leave Her.

Jenée Desmond-Harris

News & Politics

What really matters

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Why Has Biden Embraced One of Stephen Miller’s Cruelest Immigration Policies?

Mekela Panditharatne

Are Russians Using Microwave Tech to Attack Americans?

Mary Harris

The Biggest Thing Court Watchers Are Getting Wrong About SCOTUS

Dahlia Lithwick

Is Someone Brain-Zapping American Operatives?

What Next

The Nursing Mother Who Was Deported After a Mississippi ICE Raid in 2019 Is Back in Custody

Jeremy Stahl

The Mississippi Abortion Case Threatens the Right to Use Birth Control, Marry, and Even Make Choices About Sex

David H. Gans

How a Genius Fashion Invention Freed Midcentury Women Like Lucille Ball to Be Pregnant in Public

Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick

The DHS Office That Found “No Major Incidents” on Jan. 6 Needs to Be Disbanded

Aki Peritz