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“We Get to Hear Them Training to Kill Us”

For 70 years, residents of one of America’s first Black suburbs have endured constant gunfire from a police shooting range. They’ve finally had enough.

“We Get to Hear Them Training to Kill Us”

AOC Apologizes After “Present” Vote on Iron Dome Funding Bill: “Yes, I Wept”

All the Ways That “1 in 5,000 per Day” Breakthrough Infection Stat Is Nonsense

Justin Tucker’s Record-Setting Field Goal Was One of the Greatest Plays in NFL History

TV

Netflix’s No. 1 Show Will Make You Feel Gross, but You Should Watch It Anyway

Trump World

FBI Reportedly Had Informant in the Crowd During Capitol Riot

Trumpers Spent Millions on the Arizona Audit. All They Found Was More Votes for Biden.

Video Games

Has Chris Pratt Even Played Super Mario Bros.?

Afghanistan

Taliban Put Bodies of Alleged Kidnappers on Public Display

How to Do It

I’ve Kept a Secret Life From My Wife for Years. I Want to Stop—but I Don’t Know If I Can.

My SIL’s “Baby” Might Endanger My Actual Baby

Japanese Breakfast Thinks This Is the Best Song She’s Ever Written

Weekend Reads

Dan Savage Revolutionized Sex. Then the Revolution Came for Him.

The Unbelievably Grim Subreddit That Catalogs Anti-Vaxxer COVID Deaths

The Differences Between the Vaccines Are Starting to Matter

I stood by her as long as I could, out of respect for my Dad.

Help! I Teased My Infertile Friend About Kidnapping My Kid. It Didn’t Go Well.

Help! My Husband Says He Can’t Love Me “Like That,” but He Wants to Have Kids.

Dear Prudence Uncensored: “Bailing on Bali”

Help! I Despise My Friend’s Husband.

My Abusive Father Blew His Millions. Now He Wants to Live With Me.

Short Papacy, in This Week’s Open Thread

Justin Tucker’s Record-Setting Field Goal Was One of the Greatest Plays in NFL History

“We Get to Hear Them Training to Kill Us”

I’ve Kept a Secret Sex Life From My Wife for Years. She’d Be Devastated to Learn the Truth.

Dear Care and Feeding: My First-Grader Is Saying the Strangest Thing About His School Friends

Help! I Teased My Infertile Friend About Kidnapping My Kid. It Didn’t Go Well.

AOC Apologizes After “Present” Vote on Iron Dome Funding Bill: “Yes, I Wept”

“We Get to Hear Them Training to Kill Us”

Taliban Put Bodies of Alleged Kidnappers on Public Display

Japanese Breakfast Thinks This Is the Best Song She’s Ever Written

How Scary Is Midnight Mass, the New Netflix Show by the Creator of Haunting of Hill House?

Justin Tucker’s Record-Setting Field Goal Was One of the Greatest Plays in NFL History

Japanese Breakfast Thinks This Is the Best Song She’s Ever Written

Has Chris Pratt Even Played Super Mario Bros.?: A Slate Investigation

Childhood Climate Anxiety Is a Real and Worsening Problem. So Why Can’t We Take It Seriously?

Who’s the Little Lad Who Loves Berries and Cream?

OMG That Was Some Golf Shot

The Unbelievable Grimness of HermanCainAward, the Subreddit That Catalogs Anti-Vaxxer COVID Deaths

Read a New Short Story About a Future in Which a Government Tracks All of Its Citizens

All the Ways That “1 in 5,000 per Day” Breakthrough Infection Stat Is Nonsense

Why China Finally Decided to Ban Bitcoin

It Turns Out That Cutting Off Unemployment Insurance Didn’t Fix the Economy

Cesar Millan’s Method of Dominating Dogs Got Debunked a Long Time Ago. Why Is It Still So Popular?

If Snoop Dogg Isn’t This Secret NFT Trader, Who Is?

Who Wins When the State Appropriates Self-Defense Technologies Developed by Communities?

Dan Savage Revolutionized Sex. Then the Revolution Came for Him.

I’ve Kept a Secret Sex Life From My Wife for Years. She’d Be Devastated to Learn the Truth.

Dear Care and Feeding: My First-Grader Is Saying the Strangest Thing About His School Friends

Help! I Teased My Infertile Friend About Kidnapping My Kid. It Didn’t Go Well.

Dear Care and Feeding: My SIL’s “Baby” Might Endanger My Actual Baby

My Friends Are Suddenly Naked Online—but That’s Not Even What Worries Me

Help! My Stepmother Behaved Appallingly Around My Father’s Death. Now She Wants Me to Care for Her.

First, the Canals

Taliban Put Bodies of Alleged Kidnappers on Public Display

AOC Apologizes After “Present” Vote on Iron Dome Funding Bill: “Yes, I Wept”

CDC: Schools With Mask Mandates See Fewer COVID-19 Outbreaks

FBI Reportedly Had Informant in the Crowd During Capitol Riot

Trust in the Supreme Court Is Tumbling

The Ugly History Behind Those Border Agents Chasing Haitian Migrants on Horseback

“We Get to Hear Them Training to Kill Us”