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The glaring error in the Virginia Supreme Court’s gerrymandering decision

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yesterday 3

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Ian Millhiser

Levees can no longer save New Orleans

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yesterday 3

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Oliver Milman

Did Trump actually help Venezuela?

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yesterday 3

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Ariana Aspuru

How worried should I be about hantavirus?

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yesterday 3

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Dylan Scott

The old tech that could help stop the next airborne pandemic

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yesterday 2

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Shayna Korol

Elon Musk could lose his case against OpenAI — and still get what he wants

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yesterday 10

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Sara Herschander

Is Trump’s Justice Department trying to discredit itself?

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previous day 2

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Ian Millhiser

Who’s actually listening to all the health influencers dominating social media

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previous day 2

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Dylan Scott

The exploding costs of fighting US wildfires

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previous day 2

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Kylie Mohr

Help! My friend is replacing me with AI.

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previous day 3

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Allie Volpe

Why banning kids from AI isn’t the answer

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previous day 2

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Anna North

The next redistricting war will be even harder for Democrats

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previous day 10

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Christian Paz

The FBI investigates a journalist

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wednesday 5

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Cameron Peters

5 ways the Iran standoff could end

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wednesday 2

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Joshua Keating

The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud

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wednesday 3

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Ian Millhiser

The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else)

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wednesday 10

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Kenny Torrella

How a “super El Niño” could create record-breaking warming

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wednesday 3

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Bob Berwyn

Anthropic owes authors $1.5B for pirating work — but the claims process is a Kafkaesque mess

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wednesday 10

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Constance Grady

The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud

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wednesday 20

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Ian Millhiser

What Trump’s ballroom could cost you

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05.05.2026 5

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Cameron Peters

Birth rates keep falling. We need to confront reality.

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05.05.2026 8

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Elliot Haspel

Every airline is Spirit Airlines now

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05.05.2026 8

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Caitlin Dewey

Ukraine’s fight against Russia is going better than you might think

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05.05.2026 10

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Joshua Keating

A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off

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05.05.2026 10

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Andrew Prokop

Why teens in DC and elsewhere are staging “takeovers”

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04.05.2026 6

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Hady Mawajdeh

Inside the $600 billion “sleep tourism” industry

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04.05.2026 5

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Peter Balonon-Rosen

Trump eyes a new construction project

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04.05.2026 10

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Cameron Peters

The Supreme Court gets thrown back into the abortion wars

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04.05.2026 7

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Ian Millhiser

What the Supreme Court still has left to decide this term

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04.05.2026 4

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Ian Millhiser

These tropical forests are critically important. Why is this religious sect cutting them down?

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04.05.2026 6

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Benji Jones

What should liberals do when an assassin sounds like them?

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04.05.2026 20

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Zack Beauchamp

What’s more likely to be sentient: an ant or ChatGPT?

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03.05.2026 8

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Sigal Samuel

How weddings got (even more) expensive

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03.05.2026 10

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Jonquilyn Hill

Some deaf children are hearing again because of a new gene therapy

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02.05.2026 9

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Bryan Walsh

Heather Cox Richardson grades America

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02.05.2026 10

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Astead Herndon

The Department of Holy War

The Department of Holy War What Pete Hegseth’s fascination with the Crusades can tell us about the war in Iran. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth...

01.05.2026 10

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Nate Krieger

Why Trump says the US-Iran war is over

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01.05.2026 10

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Cameron Peters

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is capitalist art that hates capitalist art

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01.05.2026 10

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Alex Abad-Santos

Trump says Cuba is “next.” What does that mean?

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01.05.2026 8

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Joshua Keating

What twins can teach us about friendship

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01.05.2026 10

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Allie Volpe

A major new study found AI outperformed doctors in ER diagnosis — but there’s a catch

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30.04.2026 10

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Dylan Scott

Graham Platner’s triumph, explained by a Maine reporter

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30.04.2026 9

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Andrew Prokop

Trump’s next redistricting targets

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30.04.2026 10

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Cameron Peters

What China is learning from the US war in Iran

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30.04.2026 10

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Miles Bryan

The surprising reason why buying guns helps endangered species

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30.04.2026 10

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Benji Jones

Why “neighborism” is having a moment

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30.04.2026 10

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Sara Radin

This is what it takes to become Trump’s attorney general

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29.04.2026 10

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Kelli Wessinger

The Voting Rights Act is all but dead. Prepare for maximum gerrymandering.

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29.04.2026 6

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Ian Millhiser

Activists tried to free 2,000 dogs from a Wisconsin research lab. Then came the tear gas.

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29.04.2026 7

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Marina Bolotnikova

The sad, ugly debate behind the new Michael Jackson biopic

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29.04.2026 9

Vox

Constance Grady