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

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Resistance Dems Are Incinerating Their Money Again in an Attempt to Take Down Marjorie Taylor Greene

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

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The Lawyer Behind Trump’s Infamous Jan. 6 Memo Has a Galling New Defense

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Texas Wants to Force a 20-Lane Highway Through Austin

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An Interview With the Internet’s New Favorite Oracle

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

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

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

What Colin Powell’s Death Really Means About the Vaccines

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

Texas Wants to Force a 20-Lane Highway Through Austin

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

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

I Thought a Wearable Breast Pump Would Solve My Problems

What Would Religious Leaders Do if Aliens Showed Up?

What Happened When a Ransomware Attack Hit a Tiny Kansas County

When Did This Time of Year Become “Spooky Season”?

Pronouns and Poppers: A Queer History Party

Dear Care and Feeding: Can an Introvert Really Be a Good Parent?

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

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

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

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

Germany’s Promising Plan to Bring Conspiracy Theorists Back From the Brink

Resistance Dems Are Incinerating Their Money Again in an Attempt to Take Down Marjorie Taylor Greene

Can the Virginia Governor’s Race Tell Us Anything About the 2022 Midterms?

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

Is Trump Still on Virginia’s Ballot?

Ending Roe Could Send More Women to Prison for Miscarrying

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

The Lawyer Behind Trump’s Infamous Jan. 6 Memo Has a Galling New Defense