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When Your Parents are Michael Lewis and Tabitha Soren

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Why Language Can’t Be Tamed

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Help! My Co-Workers’ Perfume Makes Me Physically Ill.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Is Rumored to Be in the Market for Dinosaur Skeleton Art. Can You Really Buy Fossils?

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Why the Uber and Lyft IPOs Won’t Change Much

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Why Selfie-Takers Are the Bane of Museum Security Guards

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Hannibal Buress and Marina Franklin Talk Consensual Sex, Chicago, and Stand-Up

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What Harvard Business School Can Tell Us About Sheryl Sandberg and Facebook

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Further Proof That Millennials Are the Brokest Generation

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Trump Keeps Saying “No Collusion” Because He Doesn’t Understand Collusion

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To be fair to the president, almost no one does.

Flynn Asks Court for No Jail Time, Adds New Details About Extent of Cooperation with Mueller

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Mike Pesca

Canadian Court Releases Huawei CFO on Bail After High-Stakes Arrest Stokes U.S.-China Standoff

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A Letter to My Family Regarding the Mueller Investigation

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The Single Fatal Flaw in the Legal Argument Against Indicting a Sitting President

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Trump Administration Paid $13.6 Million to Consulting Firm That Has Recruited Just Two New Border Patrol Employees

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Awkward Oval Office Fight Delivers Exactly What Pelosi and Schumer Came For

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Google Hearing

How Republicans Kept Embarrassing Themselves While Grilling Google’s CEO

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Federal Judge Rules for the Right to Record Cops—Even in Secret

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James Fields Sentenced to Life in Prison for Killing Heather Heyer

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MP Swipes Royal Mace From Parliament Floor

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THE GOODS

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Leonardo DiCaprio Is Trying to Buy Dinosaur Bones. And You Could Too.

I Hated Vacuuming—Until I Found This Vacuum That Makes It Feel Like Playing a Video Game

My co-workers' perfume makes me physically ill.

Help! I’m a Married Dad Who’s Fallen in Love With a Much Younger Co-Worker.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Vicious Boss

Help! A Distant Friend Asked Me to Describe My Genitals Over Text.

Help! My Cisgender Partner Keeps Misgendering Me.

Flynn Asks Court for No Jail Time, Adds New Details About Extent of Cooperation with Mueller

The Latest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Aren’t All Rock. That’s a Good Thing.

Canadian Court Releases Huawei CFO on Bail After High-Stakes Arrest Stokes U.S.-China Standoff

Congress’ Confusion Over How Google Works Is Exactly Why They Need to Regulate It

A Letter to My Family Regarding the Mueller Investigation

The Single Fatal Flaw in the Legal Argument Against Indicting a Sitting President

House Republicans Took One Final Shot at Comey—and Discredited Themselves

Awkward Oval Office Fight With Trump Delivers Exactly What Pelosi and Schumer Came For

Bird Bath

How “Woke Ammon Bundy” Became the Year’s Most Surprising Resistance Figure

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The Golden Globes Name Their New Television Achievement Award After a Comedy Legend

How a Sex Scandal Arguably Helped Mary Astor’s Career

Triple Frontier Applies the Narcos Template to Veterans’ Issues

Workers With Criminal Records Struggle to Find a Place in the Gig Economy

Republicans Kept Embarrassing Themselves While Trying to Get Google’s CEO to Admit the Company Was Biased Against Conservatives

Federal Court Rules You Have the Right to Record the Cops—Even in Secret

Of Course Monopoly Man and Alex Jones Showed Up at Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Capitol Hill Hearing

The L.A. Auto Show Demonstrated Why Electric Cars Are Still the Future

Photoshop Isn’t the Problem. Using Women’s Bodies to Sell Products Is.

People Keep Throwing Electric Scooters Into Lakes and Rivers

Congress’ Confusion Over How Google Works Is Exactly Why They Need to Regulate It

When Your Parents are Michael Lewis and Tabitha Soren

When Did It Suddenly Become Hilarious to Tweet With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

An Instant Pot, iPad, and AncestryDNA Kit: Wirecutter’s Best Deals of the Week

Why Language Can’t Be Tamed

I Hated Vacuuming—Until I Found This Vacuum That Makes It Feel Like Playing a Video Game

Help! My Co-Workers’ Perfume Makes Me Physically Ill.

Leonardo DiCaprio Is Rumored to Be in the Market for Dinosaur Skeleton Art. Can You Really Buy Fossils?

Why the Uber and Lyft IPOs Won’t Change Much

Why Selfie-Takers Are the Bane of Museum Security Guards

Hannibal Buress and Marina Franklin Talk Consensual Sex, Chicago, and Stand-Up

What Harvard Business School Can Tell Us About Sheryl Sandberg and Facebook

Finally, NYC Is Doing Right by Lyft and Uber Drivers

Minneapolis Just Passed the Most Important Housing Reform in America

Further Proof That Millennials Are the Brokest Generation

Carnival CEO Arnold Donald Says Cruises Are Getting More Personalized

Trump Keeps Saying “No Collusion” Because He Doesn’t Understand Collusion

Flynn Asks Court for No Jail Time, Adds New Details About Extent of Cooperation with Mueller

The Latest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Aren’t All Rock. That’s a Good Thing.

Canadian Court Releases Huawei CFO on Bail After High-Stakes Arrest Stokes U.S.-China Standoff

A Letter to My Family Regarding the Mueller Investigation

The Single Fatal Flaw in the Legal Argument Against Indicting a Sitting President

Trump Administration Paid $13.6 Million to Consulting Firm That Has Recruited Just Two New Border Patrol Employees

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