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What Is “Dirt” in 2019?

Yearbooks, harassment, casual racism: Opposition researchers have new sources of rich material.

Border Wall

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The Conversation Starts Here

Voters approved an expansion. Lawmakers rolled it back.

Utah’s Medicaid Battle

My Boyfriend Is, Uh, Huge

And I’m, uh, not. How can I make my body adjust?

Basketball

Even if the dunk contest slam was a bust, it was an honest tribute to the Wright brothers.

Strategist Editors

Dahlia Lithwick

Rich Juzwiak

And why they’re done with tiny living.

Marissa Martinelli

Daniel Politi

Culture

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Technology

How it’s changing us

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After 15 years, the adventurous spacecraft has finally bit the dust.

Human Interest

An honest guide to modern life

How “people of color” evolved from a gesture of solidarity and respect to a cover for avoiding the complexities of race.

Business

Where the money goes

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Cities once worshipped job creation at any cost. The crumbling of New York’s HQ2 deal suggests they’re finding a new religion.

News & Politics

What really matters

The president defended his national emergency by boasting that he’ll win at the Supreme Court because it’s full of his judges.

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What Is “Dirt” in 2019?

I Can’t Stop Analyzing Trump’s Friday Rose Garden Speech

Why Trump’s Fundraising Emails Are Intentionally Ugly

It’s Absurd for Gucci to Claim “Ignorance” in Its Blackface Designs

Border Wall

At Least 13 States Will Join Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s Emergency Declaration

Real Estate

What That Couple From Tiny House Hunters Did With Their Burned-Down Shack

History

Why the Epidemic That Killed 675,000 Americans Was Barely a Blip

Sailor Pictured Kissing Nurse in Iconic WWII Photo Dies at 95

Workplace Advice

Managers, You’re Only Hurting Yourself When You Sugarcoat Feedback

Voters approved an expansion. Lawmakers rolled it back.

My Boyfriend Is, Uh, Huge

Why the Aborted Mars One Mission Deserves to Be Mourned, Not Mocked

Basketball

This Failure Was Historically Accurate

Iowa’s Buzzer-Beating H-O-R-S-E Shot Was All Kinds of Crazy

Anthony Davis Would Play for Your Favorite NBA Team! Unless It’s New Orleans.

She made it sound as if they were massacring endangered baby eagles.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Hoarder Boyfriend

Help! Should I Move In With My Hoarder Boyfriend?

Help! I’m Sick of My Boyfriend Always Being Sick!

Dear Prudence Podcast: Help! I Hate All the Homemade Knickknacks My In-Laws Keep Gifting Us.

I Wear Less Makeup Now Thanks to This Illuminating Mirror

How Police Departments Try to Force Google to Hand Over Data on Anyone Near a Crime Scene

Why Is the Graphic Design of Trump’s Campaign Emails So Remarkably Heinous?

My Boyfriend Is, Uh, Huge. How Can I Make This Work … Physically?

How Utah Defied the Will of Its Voters

The Original Burning Men, in This Week’s Open Thread

I Can’t Stop Analyzing Trump’s Friday Rose Garden Speech

My Husband Hid Past Orgies and Gay Sex Before We Got Married. Can I Satisfy Him?

How These Tiny House Hunters Legends Transformed Their Burned-Down Shack

Alec Baldwin Wonders if Trump’s SNL Tweet Is “a Threat to My Safety”

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The Many Faces of Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson

Inside Sports Reference, the Online Empire That Gets More Than a Billion Page Views a Year

How These Tiny House Hunters Legends Transformed Their Burned-Down Shack

John Oliver’s Brexit Forecast: It’s Not Lookin’ Good!

Watch a Drunk, Naked-From-the-Waist-Down Geoffrey the Giraffe Smash Up Jimmy Kimmel’s Set With a Baseball Bat

Here’s Where You Can Read All of This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Screenplays

Iowa’s Buzzer-Beating H-O-R-S-E Shot Against Rutgers Was All Kinds of Crazy

RIP, Oppy the Mars Rover

Did We Forget to Memorialize Spanish Flu Because Women Were the Heroes?

In the Age of Billionaires Leading Space Exploration, We Should Mourn Mars One

Amazon’s Alexa Keeps Quoting Jeff Bezos to Me

Being Suicidal Doesn’t Necessarily Mean You’re Mentally Ill

New York’s Anti-Amazon Movement Is Now a Blueprint for Critics of Big Tech

Russian Region Declares Emergency After Polar Bears Terrorize Town

How Police Departments Try to Force Google to Hand Over Data on Anyone Near a Crime Scene

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I Wear Less Makeup Now Thanks to This Illuminating Mirror

My Boyfriend Is, Uh, Huge. How Can I Make This Work … Physically?

Why It’s Ridiculous for Gucci to Claim “Ignorance” in Its Blackface Designs

Managers Need to Stop Sugarcoating Their Feedback

The Best Baby Monitors, According to Experts

My Husband Hid Past Orgies and Gay Sex Before We Got Married. Can I Satisfy Him?

Amazon and the End of the Growth Machine

Withholdings and Refunds in the First Tax Season Under the New Law

Moderate Democrats Are in Love With a Tepid and Outdated Idea to Fix Health Care

There’s Nothing Ridiculous About Trains Replacing Planes

America’s Lack of Child Care Is a Big Economic Problem

Landmark Donald Trump’s Buildings

Here’s What It’s Like to Work as a Knight at Medieval Times

Here’s What It’s Like to Train Horses at Medieval Times

Trump Isn’t Just Defying the Constitution. He’s Undermining SCOTUS.

Why Is the Graphic Design of Trump’s Campaign Emails So Remarkably Heinous?

How Utah Defied the Will of Its Voters

How the Jobs of Oppo Researchers Have Changed in the Era of Northam, Kavanaugh, and Trump

Sailor Pictured Kissing Nurse in Iconic World War II Photo Dies at 95

At Least 13 States Will Join Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s Emergency Declaration

I Can’t Stop Analyzing Trump’s Friday Rose Garden Speech

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