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Mitch McConnell’s Relief Offer Is Worse Than Doing Nothing

GOP Plans to Stick With Deranged Leadership Team That Just Lost House, Presidency, Maybe Senate

Why Do U.S. Presidential Transitions Take Such a Ridiculously Long Time?

Other Countries Prosecute Former Leaders All the Time

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Trump Is Pondering Preemptively Pardoning His Kids

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Saving the Iran Nuclear Deal Won’t Be Enough

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I Confessed All My Secret Fantasies. My Girlfriend Is Horrified.

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Nomadland Is a Masterpiece Made by Two Separate Virtuosos

The Star of Lifetime’s New Christmas Movie on Filming a Kiss Scene Through Plexiglass

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Help! My Wife Favors Our Son Over Our Other Kids.

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Help! My Roommate Poisoned My Dog to Get Back at Me.

Help! My Son Won’t Vaccinate His Baby. Should I Do It Behind His Back?

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Fiddling With Georgia’s Election

The Undoing Could Have Been Perfect Trash

Republicans Plan to Stick With Deranged Party Leadership Team That Just Lost House, Presidency, Maybe Senate

Why Do American Presidential Transitions Take Such a Ridiculously Long Time?

Prominent Anti-Trump Attorney Asks the Supreme Court to Let Corporations off the Hook for Child Slavery

More and More Republican Officials Are Standing Up to Trump and His Effort to Overturn the Election

Trump’s Family Pardon Plan Might Make Him a Bigger Criminal Target

It’s OK if Democrats Fold on Stimulus Checks

The Casual Star Wars Fan’s Guide to Ahsoka Tano

An Interview With a Man Who Just Discovered His Gawky Third-Grade Laser Photo Has Been a Meme for Years

The Undoing Could Have Been Perfect Trash

The Star of Lifetime’s New Christmas Movie on Filming a Kiss Scene Through Plexiglass

Any Green, Any Bean, Any Pasta—Sohla Turns It Into Dinner

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Nomadland Is a Masterpiece Made by Two Separate Virtuosos

The Biden Administration Needs to Do Something About Tesla

Platform Regulation Should Focus on Transparency, Not Content

Mitch McConnell’s Relief Offer Is Actually Worse Than Doing Nothing

Facebook’s Oversight Board Has Announced Its First Six Cases

It’s OK if Democrats Fold on Stimulus Checks

Biden Got It Right With His Treasury Secretary Pick

The Video Game AOC Keeps Streaming Is Actually a Good Metaphor for Our Politics

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Would You Rather Fall Into a Pit Filled With Rats—or Have Rats Rain Down on You From Above?

Help! My Wife Favors Our Son Over Our Other Kids.

I Confessed All My Secret Fantasies, and Now My Girlfriend Is Horrified

Elliot Page’s Vulnerability Is a Gift to the Trans, Nonbinary Community

Help! I Keep Looking for Excuses Not to Hang Out With My Husband.

Dear Care and Feeding: My MIL Is Way Too Strict With My Perfectly Normal Kid

I Suspect the “Poly” Married Guy I’m Sleeping With Is Just a Cheater

The Voice of Black America?

Republicans Plan to Stick With Deranged Party Leadership Team That Just Lost House, Presidency, Maybe Senate

Why Do American Presidential Transitions Take Such a Ridiculously Long Time?

These Stars of Right-Wing Facebook Got Their Start at NRATV

Saving the Iran Nuclear Deal Won’t Be Enough

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Trump’s Family Pardon Plan Might Make Him a Bigger Criminal Target

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