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Why the belittling, sexually charged attacks on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aren’t working.

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No, a Panel of Respected Economists Did Not Just Dismiss Ocasio-Cortez’s 70 Percent Tax Plan

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The L.A. Teachers’ Strike Isn’t Really About Class Sizes or Wages. It’s About Charter Schools.

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If you want to watch one, there’s a clear choice.

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“All Sizzle but No Steak”

How Ocasio-Cortez is upending the usual sexist scripts for talking about female politicians’ looks.

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The Boys Are Watching

Men who are offended by Gillette’s moralizing new ad don’t realize why we need its message now more than ever.

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Both movies blame millennials, but the problem is so much bigger.

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Don’t Abandon Sunscreen Just Yet

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People aren’t good enough at applying sunscreen for us to worry about the harms of its use.

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The Atlantic’s Taylor Lorenz Explains What Teens Are up to Online in 2019

April Glaser and Will Oremus

Future Tense Newsletter: Beyond Cyberpunk

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Courts Don’t Care Whether a Hacker Was Politically Motivated

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Drones Are the New Flying Saucers

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Close the National Parks Now

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The WeBurnout Edition

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Four Questions for Trump About His Contacts With Russia

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The president’s latest answers open new avenues for investigation.

Two Republican Congressmen Met With a Holocaust Denier About DNA “Research”

Ben Mathis-Lilley

Report: Cohen Hired Tech Firm to Try to Rig Polls for Trump and Create “Women for Cohen” Fan Account

Molly Olmstead

The Conservative Case Against Trump

Yascha Mounk

The Latest Teachers’ Strike Isn’t Really About Class Sizes or Wage Hikes. It’s About Charter Schools.

Mary Harris

Atlanta Man Arrested for Alleged Terrorist Plot to “Blow a Hole in the White House”

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“All Sizzle but No Steak”

The Men Who Are Offended by Gillette’s Viral New Ad Are Missing the Message

No, a Panel of Respected Economists Did Not Just Dismiss Ocasio-Cortez’s 70 Percent Tax Plan

The L.A. Teachers’ Strike Isn’t Really About Class Sizes or Wages. It’s About Charter Schools.

The GOP's Finest

Two Republican Congressmen Met With a Holocaust Denier About DNA “Research”

Report: Cohen Hired Tech Firm to Try to Rig Polls for Trump, Create “Women for Cohen” Fan Account

Shutdown

This Is a Historic Opportunity for Democrats

It’s an Emergency

Forget Gendered Bathrooms. We Need Separate Rooms for No. 1 and No. 2.

Ask a Teacher

How Should a 6-Year-Old Actually Honor MLK for MLK Day?

Los Angeles marks the eighth big teachers’ strike in the past year.

How the Dueling Hulu and Netflix Fyre Fest Docs Compare

Should Glenn Close Win Best Actress for The Wife?

Families

How I Fell in Love With My Boyfriend and His Daughter While He Grieved for His Wife

All of New Zealand Is Obsessed With One Drunken, Rowdy, Littering Tourist Family

MacKenzie Bezos Is Legally Entitled to Half of the $140 Billion Amazon Fortune

It would be easiest to let sleeping dogs lie, but there’s a part of me that thinks our kids should hear it from us.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Wife’s Secret Past

Help! My Husband Is Incapable of Remembering to Buy His Mom a Gift.

Dear Prudence Podcast: Help! Should I Tell My Wife That Our Neighbor Tried to Kiss Me?

Help! I’m Not Sure My Nephew Realizes That His Dad’s a Pedophile.

No, a Panel of Respected Economists Did Not Just Dismiss AOC’s 70 Percent Tax Plan

Two Republican Congressmen Met With a Holocaust Denier About DNA “Research”

Can Cops Force You to Unlock Your Phone With Your Fingerprint?

Report: Cohen Hired Tech Firm to Try to Rig Polls for Trump and Create “Women for Cohen” Fan Account

Should Glenn Close Win Best Actress for The Wife?

The Conservative Case Against Trump

“I’ll Knock Your Brains Out”: The Rowdy Tourist Family Currently Carving a Trail of Destruction Through New Zealand

Dear Care and Feeding: I’m Caring for a Relative’s Traumatized Toddler. I Feel Like a Mom With an Asterisk.

“All Sizzle but No Steak”

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With Hulu and Netflix’s Fyre Festival Docs, Instagram Influencers Get Their Gimme Shelter

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Don’t Abandon Sunscreen Just Yet

A New Head of Antitrust in the House Could Mean Big Changes for Big Tech

The Atlantic’s Taylor Lorenz Explains What Teens Are up to Online in 2019

Future Tense Newsletter: Beyond Cyberpunk

Courts Don’t Care Whether a Hacker Was Politically Motivated

Drones Are the New Flying Saucers

Close the National Parks Now

Can Cops Force You to Unlock Your Phone With Your Fingerprint?

Why Is All of New Zealand Obsessed With This Drunken, Littering, Rowdy Tourist Family?

If You Have This Tech Gadget, You’ll Love This Other Thing

Dear Prudence Uncensored: The Wife’s Secret Past

Help! My Wife Asked Me to Destroy Evidence of Her Secret Past. I Didn’t.

Ask a Teacher: This MLK Day I Want My Son to Reflect on King. How Can I Do That?

How I Fell in Love With My Boyfriend—and His Daughter—While He Grieved the Death of his Wife

Men Offended by Gillette’s New Ad Are Missing Its Most Important Message

No, a Panel of Respected Economists Did Not Just Dismiss AOC’s 70 Percent Tax Plan

Wired Laid Off Five Staffers. Who’s Next at Condé Nast?

It’s Their Job to Get Up Close and Personal With the Art

The WeBurnout Edition

California Used to Classify Bus Lanes and Bike Racks as Bad for the Environment. Not Anymore.

Crowded Cities Short on Housing Are Looking to Turn Water Into Land

The CEO of Harry’s on Facial-Hair Trends and the Razor Business

California Could Use PG&E’s Failure to Get Wildfire Prone Areas to Adopt Solar

Four Questions for Trump About His Contacts With Russia

Two Republican Congressmen Met With a Holocaust Denier About DNA “Research”

Report: Cohen Hired Tech Firm to Try to Rig Polls for Trump and Create “Women for Cohen” Fan Account

The Conservative Case Against Trump

The Latest Teachers’ Strike Isn’t Really About Class Sizes or Wage Hikes. It’s About Charter Schools.

Atlanta Man Arrested for Alleged Terrorist Plot to “Blow a Hole in the White House”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Suggested Tax Rates Wouldn’t Fund Medicare for All. They Might Even Send Taxpayers Fleeing.

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