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Americans Don’t Want to Defund the Police. Here’s What They Do Want.

Biden’s Supreme Court Commission Walked Straight Into a Trap

I’m a Little Bummed That Adele Lost Weight

The Best Photo We Didn’t Use This Week: Donald Trump’s Note to Self

Texas Superintendent Apologizes After Official Calls for “Opposing” Views to Holocaust

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The Absolute Simplest Explanation for America’s Woes

What Americans Who Can’t Find a New Couch Are Resorting To

Pandemic

Fauci: J&J Vaccine “Very Likely” Should Have Been Two Doses From the Start

Robert Durst Is on a Ventilator After Contracting COVID-19

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Buttigieg: “I’m Not Going to Apologize to Tucker Carlson” for Taking Paternity Leave

Media

Why Hasn’t the NYTimes Made Its Star Media Columnist Sell His BuzzFeed Options Yet?

My Amazing Open Relationship Is Built on a White Lie

Do I Really Have to Bond with My Mom’s New Husband’s Family?

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Millions of People Left Behind by the Vaccine Are Facing a Stark Future

A New Documentary Says Brittany Murphy Was the Victim of a Grift

A Mom Who Hasn’t Gotten Vaxxed—and Might Not Vaccinate Her Kids—Explains Herself

I didn't want to push him away during my pregnancy, but we broke up for a reason.

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Help! My Brother Did Everything the Wrong Way, and Now He’s Thriving and a Millionaire.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: “Lost in the Weeds”

Help! My Toddler’s Day Care Manager Believes in QAnon.

I’m Worried My Easy-Crying Tendencies Are Rubbing Off on My Toddler

My Amazing Open Relationship Is Built on a White Lie

Americans Don’t Want to Defund the Police. Here’s What They Do Want.

A Woman Was Raped on a Pennsylvania Train. Witnesses Didn’t Even Call 911.

Buttigieg: “I’m Not Going to Apologize to Tucker Carlson” for Taking Paternity Leave

Fauci: J&J Vaccine “Very Likely” Should Have Been 2 Doses From the Start

As Many as 17 U.S. Missionaries Kidnapped in Haiti

Texas Superintendent Apologizes After Official Calls for “Opposing” Views to Holocaust

The Best Photo We Didn’t Use This Week: Donald Trump’s Note to Self

Todd Haynes Explains Why The Velvet Underground Couldn’t Be a Typical Documentary

Buttigieg Fires Back at Critics of Parental Leave: Biden Administration “Is Actually Pro-Family’

Netflix’s Botched Translation Misses a Key Part of Squid Game

Velvet Underground Director Todd Haynes on the Interview That Made Him Cry

Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco Take Their Place in Punk’s Lineage

The TikTok Salmon Bowl Can’t Save Us

Todd Haynes’ Velvet Underground Documentary Will Change the Way You Think About the Band

When Squid Game Memes Stop Being Funny

What Exactly Does Kyrie Irving Think He’s Doing?

I Couldn’t Afford Hearing Aids Until I Got a Six-Figure Book Deal

The Absolute Simplest Explanation for America’s Supply Chain Woes

Why Hasn’t the New York Times Made Ben Smith Sell His BuzzFeed Options Yet?

Don’t Celebrate Microsoft for Pulling LinkedIn Out of China Just Yet

What Americans Who Can’t Find a New Couch Are Resorting To

Doctors Are Putting Drug Vending Machines in Their Offices

Will a New Study on Menthol Cigarettes’ Harm to Black Americans Finally Push the FDA to Act?

Future Tense Newsletter: We Need More Low-Stakes Rules for Internet Conduct

Is the German Catholic Church Going Rogue or Saving Itself?

My Amazing Open Relationship Is Built on a White Lie

Help! I Took My Best Friend’s Virginity Before His Wedding. Should I Still Attend the Ceremony?

Dear Care and Feeding: Mealtime at Our House Is About to Become a Battleground

Do I Really Have to Bond with My Mom’s New Husband’s Family?

I Feel Terrible About What Turns Me On. But It’s So Hot.

Help! My Ex Is Insisting on an Embarrassing Name for Our Child Out of “Tradition.”

“Doing What an Angry 3-Year-Old Would Do” Is the Only Remaining Republican Principle

A Woman Was Raped on a Pennsylvania Train. Witnesses Didn’t Even Call 911.

Buttigieg: “I’m Not Going to Apologize to Tucker Carlson” for Taking Paternity Leave

Fauci: J&J Vaccine “Very Likely” Should Have Been 2 Doses From the Start

As Many as 17 U.S. Missionaries Kidnapped in Haiti

Robert Durst Is on a Ventilator After Contracting COVID-19

Buttigieg Fires Back at Critics of Parental Leave: Biden Administration “Is Actually Pro-Family”

Americans Don’t Want to Defund the Police. Here’s What They Do Want.