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The World

America Has Been Waging a War While No One Was Watching

Facebook

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It’s an accident of history that the Supreme Court has nine seats.

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What a Dad With an Income of $60,000 Spends on His Two Kids During a Week in Wyoming

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Real-Life Death Hangs Over Catastrophe’s Final Season

Netflix Is Testing Different Episode Orders on Watchers of Love, Death & Robots

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Help! My Friend Wants Me to Hide His Secret From My Wife.

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

Help! Is It Wrong That I Don’t Want My Employees Bringing Babies to Work?

Help! Should I Tell My Fiancée I’m Trans?

America’s Maternal Mortality Rate Is a Problem

Kentucky Governor, Who’s Not a Doctor, Says He Intentionally Exposed Kids to Chickenpox Rather Than Vaccinate Them

Get Out Took Aim at White Liberals. In Us, No American Is Safe.

The UConn Women Didn’t Get a No. 1 Seed in the NCAA Tournament. Huh?

The Eight Opinions You’re Allowed to Have About Duke

Everything You Need to Know About Wednesday’s Super Worm Equinox Moon

Dear Care and Feeding: I Want My Kids to Know Their Grandma, but She’s an Untrustworthy Alcoholic

Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes Sold Certainty and Sex Appeal

The Meat Stick on 34th Street

What a Dad of Two Spends on His Kids During a Week in Torrington, Wyoming

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Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes Sold Certainty and Sex Appeal

Get Out Took Aim at White Liberals. In Us, No American Is Safe.

The UConn Women Didn’t Get a No. 1 Seed in the NCAA Tournament. Huh?

The Eight Opinions You’re Allowed to Have About Duke

Leo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt Cruise Hippie L.A. in the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Trailer

The Inventor Misunderstands What Makes the Theranos Scam Fascinating

Catastrophe’s Final Season Ends a Romance for the Ages

The Government Is Using the Most Vulnerable People to Test Facial Recognition Software

How Is the EU’s Data Privacy Regulation Doing So Far?

Climate Change Will Make Disasters Like Cyclone Idai More Devastating

Facebook Is Eliminating the Easiest Ways to Commit Housing and Employment Discrimination—but Not All the Ways

Facebook Live Gave the New Zealand Shooter a Stage

The British Medical Journal’s Decision to Ban Formula Ads Is Baseless and Anti-Feminist

Future Tense Newsletter: This Government Facial Recognition System May Be Using Your Photo

Everything You Need to Know About Wednesday’s Super Worm Equinox Moon

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

Who Would Buy This Thing: Gucci’s $870 Dirty (Looking) Sneakers?

The City Gay and the Country Gay

Help! My Friend Wants Me to Hide His Secret From My Wife.

What a Dad With an Income of $60,000 Spends on His Two Kids During a Week in Wyoming

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

Should I Be Worried That My Son and His Playmate Don’t Seem to Get Along?

Alan Krueger Was the Rare Economist Whose Work Improved the Lives of Millions

Are Credit Card Points Worth It?

Beto O’Rourke’s Health Care Proposal Is Not Medicare for All, but It Is Ambitious

A Health Insurance CEO Shares His Thoughts on Medicare for All

Here’s What It’s Like to Run the Bar at Medieval Times

David Wallace-Wells Talks Global Warming

To Protect New York City From Rising Seas, Build More of It

New Yorkers Are Right: Hudson Yards’ Big Tourist Attraction Should Forever Be Called the Shawarma

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America’s Maternal Mortality Rate Is a Problem

Kentucky Governor, Who’s Not a Doctor, Says He Intentionally Exposed Kids to Chickenpox Rather Than Vaccinate Them

Jerry Nadler Is Methodically Advancing the Judiciary Committee’s Trump Investigation

Trump Is Right About Huawei

The Frog Has Been Fully Boiled

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