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The 20-Lane Highway Texas Wants to Force Through Austin

Henry Grabar

The Law

Ending Roe Could Criminalize More Than Abortion

Bobbie Stein

Pandemic

The Bigger Reason Washington State Fired Its Vaccine-Refusing Football Coach

Alex Kirshner

Zebras

It Seems the Only Way to Catch the Escaped Zebras Is to Rope In More Zebras

Julia Craven

Screen Time

The New Metroid Makes the Case for a Controversial Video-Game Practice

Evan Urquhart

Advice

My Husband Made a Shocking Proposal to My Best Friend. And Then It Got Worse.

Jessica Stoya

My Mother-in-Law Has More Than $100,000 in Student Debt

Athena Valentine

There’s a Potential Grenade at the Center of the Crypto Economy

Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman

Please Stop Calling This Time of Year “Spooky Season”

Heather Schwedel

History

How Accurate Is Matt Damon’s Hideous Mullet in The Last Duel?

Sara McDougall and David Perry

The Stubborn, Low-Paid Librarian Who Hired—Then Fired—Frank Lloyd Wright

Philippa Lewis

What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in the Impeachment Episode Where Bill Clinton Commits Perjury

Ellin Stein

I am completely in over my head at my new job.

Help! My Mom Gives Me Free Child Care, but She Is Driving Me Up the Wall.

Help! My Husband Called His Ex the “Love of His Life.”

Help! I Took My Best Friend’s Virginity Before His Wedding. Should I Still Attend the Ceremony?

Help! My Ex Is Insisting on an Embarrassing Name for Our Child Out of “Tradition.”

Care and Feeding

One of My Twins Outshines the Other

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Rafia Zakaria

What Could Thoreau Teach Me, a Pakistani American Woman?

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Fred Kaplan

What Should Really Alarm Us About China’s New “Hypersonic” Missile Test

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ICYMI

We Interviewed the Pug With No Bones

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Andrea Peterson

What Happened When a Ransomware Attack Hit a Tiny Kansas County

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Jenée Desmond-Harris

Help! My Mom Gives Me Free Child Care, but She Is Driving Me Up the Wall.

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Jane C. Hu

Have Cities Really Made Allergies Worse by Planting Mostly Male Trees?

My Mother-in-Law Has $100,000 in Student Debt—and She Just Revealed an Alarming Plan for What to Do About It

Athena Valentine

Texas Wants to Force a 20-Lane Highway Through Austin

Henry Grabar

The Bigger Reason Washington State Fired Its Vaccine-Refusing Football Coach

Other coaches around the sport, of all backgrounds and politics, understood what he didn’t.

Alex Kirshner

Untethered

It’s time to get very worried about Tether, the “stablecoin” at the center of the crypto economy.

Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman

Culture

What it all means

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Midnight Mass Is Drenched in Blood and Catholicism, but There’s One Thing Missing

Steven D. Greydanus

Whether you’re fighting vampires or addiction, it helps to have a higher power.

What Could Thoreau Teach Me, a Pakistani American Woman?

Rafia Zakaria

We Interviewed the Pug With No Bones

ICYMI

What Monica Lewinsky’s New Documentary on Public Shaming Gets Wrong

Lili Loofbourow

Chappelle’s 180-Quadruple-Down Means We All Lose

Culture Gabfest

What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in the Impeachment Episode Where Bill Clinton Commits Perjury

Ellin Stein

How Historically Accurate Is Matt Damon’s Hideous Mullet in The Last Duel?

Sara McDougall and David Perry

Tech & Business

Where we’re headed

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What Colin Powell’s Death Really Means About the Vaccines

Tim Requarth

Breakthrough infections are scary. They don’t affect us all equally.

Have Cities Really Made Allergies Worse by Planting Mostly Male Trees?

Jane C. Hu

Texas Wants to Force a 20-Lane Highway Through Austin

Henry Grabar

There’s a Potential Grenade at the Center of the Crypto Economy

Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman

My Mother-in-Law Has $100,000 in Student Debt—and She Just Revealed an Alarming Plan for What to Do About It

Athena Valentine

I Thought a Wearable Breast Pump Would Solve My Problems

Rachel Alexander

What Would Religious Leaders Do if Aliens Showed Up?

Josh Wilbur

What Happened When a Ransomware Attack Hit a Tiny Kansas County

Andrea Peterson

Human Interest

An honest guide to modern life

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Is the German Catholic Church Going Rogue or Saving Itself?

Molly Olmstead

Help! My Mom Gives Me Free Child Care, but She Is Driving Me Up the Wall.

Jenée Desmond-Harris

My Husband Made a Shocking Proposal to My Best Friend. And Then It Got Worse.

Jessica Stoya

If We Open Our Marriage, My Husband Wants Me Only to Date Other Women

Big Mood Little Mood

Dear Care and Feeding: My Teenager Made a Big Mistake Trying to Hold Her Teacher “Accountable”

Doyin Richards

The First Step to Finding Friends Is Asking for Help (Even if You Don’t Need It)

How To!

Help! I Am Completely in Over My Head at My New Job.

Jenée Desmond-Harris

News & Politics

What really matters

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“Doing What an Angry 3-Year-Old Would Do” Is the Only Remaining Republican Principle

Ben Mathis-Lilley

Is Trump Still on Virginia’s Ballot?

What Next

Ending Roe Could Send More Women to Prison for Miscarrying

Bobbie Stein

Zebra Update: Apparently the Only Way to Catch the Escaped Zebras Is to Rope In More Zebras

Julia Craven

How Should We Remember Colin Powell?

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How a Stubborn, Low-Paid Librarian Hired—Then Fired—Frank Lloyd Wright

Philippa Lewis

The Supreme Court Deals a Harsh, Unanimous Blow to Police Reform

Mark Joseph Stern

What Should Really Alarm Us About China’s New “Hypersonic” Missile Test

Fred Kaplan