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Now that Congress finally has the full, ugly picture, lawmakers must act.

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John Roberts Will Never Take That New Obamacare Ruling Seriously

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Some Schools Try to Pose as “Montessori.” Here’s How to Tell the Real Ones From Imposters.

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Come On, It’s Fine for UPS to Joke About Shredding Kids’ Letters to Santa

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The Book That Changed How I Talk to My Patients About Obesity

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Why Mulvaney Is So Disgustingly Good at Working for Trump

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Aquaman Owes a Lot to H.P. Lovecraft. It’s Also His Worst Nightmare.

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The Conversation Starts Here

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It’s an Exciting Time to Be in the Makeup Business

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Leather, Whiskey Stones, and … a Mammoth-Tusk Knife?

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Chest-thumping men’s gift guides should stop treating guys like cartoonish lumberjacks.

Parents Like Me Try to Mold Our Disabled Children to Fit Into an Able-Bodied World

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It should be the other way around.

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Bad Girls Turned Good

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GLOW and Killing Eve challenged pat ideas about womanhood.

Yes, Pose Is Corny. But It’s Still Vital.

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Succession Did What No Other TV Show Could in 2018

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Help! My Husband Told an Internet Forum That I Cheated On Him. I Didn’t.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Childless Friend

Help! Our Stepdaughter Sold the Presents We Gave Our Grandkids for Christmas.

Help! My Neighbor Is Ned Flanders Without the Good Faith.

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Aquaman Owes a Lot to H.P. Lovecraft. It’s Also His Worst Nightmare.

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The racist author influenced the DC movie—and would have hated it.

In 2018, Sitcoms Went Where Dramas Fear to Tread

Todd VanDerWerff

GLOW and Killing Eve Gave Bad Girls a Chance to Be Good

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This Two-Ingredient Italian Almond Brittle Recipe Calls for a Potato—but Why?

Kristen Miglore

Pose Was One of the Most Beautiful Stories on TV

Tara Ariano

What Roma Could Learn From the Other Latin American Films About Domestic Workers

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Trevor Noah Asks the Question on Everyone’s Lips: “What the Hell Happened With Stephen Miller’s Hair?”

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Technology

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Why Wikipedia’s “Nuclear Option” Is the Right Call

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A bureaucratic change is coming, in part to keep Siri and Alexa from giving people bad information.

The New Reports on Russian Disinformation Are an Indictment of the White House

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What Can the Women Who’ve Conquered Space Teach Silicon Valley?

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The Book That Changed How I Talk to My Patients About Obesity

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Congress Now Has a Very Full, Very Ugly Picture of How Russia Targeted Black Americans. Will Lawmakers Finally Do Something About It?

April Glaser

Can We Make Buildings That Create Their Own Energy? Norway Thinks So.

Tracey Lindeman

Trump’s Immigration Policies Could Be to Blame for the Recent Food Safety Scares

Sarah Taber

Twitter Will Finally Make It Easy to Set Your Timeline to Reverse-Chronological

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Human Interest

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Montessori or Non-tessori?

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Nick Greene

Come On, It’s Fine for UPS to Joke About Shredding Kids’ Letters to Santa

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Wants to Reconcile Queerness and Religion. And It Wants Queer People to Do All the Work.

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The Best Gifts for Coffee Lovers

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Jeffrey Wright Guarded “Hippy” Brett Kavanaugh in High School, and “Hippy” Brian Lehrer Claims You Can Be a Mets and Yankees Fan

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Why Is Harvard Investing in California Farmland?

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It’s Way Too Early to Call the Affordable Care Act Dead

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America’s Hottest Housing Debate Is Coming to Oregon

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The Holland Tunnel Christmas Decorations Fiasco: Not a Feel-Good Story

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