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The backlash shows exactly why we need it.

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“All Sizzle but No Steak”

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

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

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

Terrorism

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

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.

Movies

Now Disney’s Making a Live-Action Hunchback of Notre Dame

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.

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

How Netflix and Hulu’s Dueling Fyre Fest Docs Compare

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

I Hate Explaining Why I’m My Toddler’s Guardian. It’s Really Complicated.

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.

Can This Hawaiian Pizza Recipe Heal the Salty-Sweet Schism?

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

“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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Relax, Because This Flourless Chocolate Cloud Cake Will Look Amazing No Matter What

Don’t Abandon Sunscreen Just Yet

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

It’s Not the Screen, It’s How You Use It

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

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

Wired Very Quietly Laid Off Five Journalists Last Week

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

How Does a Museum Event Planner Do Her Job?

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

Four Questions for Trump About His Contacts With Russia

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.

Can the Federal Government Shutdown of the 1990s Teach Us How to End Today’s?

The Angle: 26 Days Later, Trump Is Losing and the Wall Is Winning

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

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