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How to rebuild your broken attention span

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Adam Clark Estes

How money actually works in American elections

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Rachel Cohen

The election deniers coming to a swing state near you

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Zack Beauchamp

How an AIPAC endorsement became a liability

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Denise Guerra

A messy lesson for the post-woke left

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Caitlin Dewey

Who gets to freeze their eggs?

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Dylan Scott

This influencer runs 6 miles every night. He’s also a hamster.

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Kenny Torrella

Want to improve your sex life? Look to religion.

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Casper Ter Kuile

Francesca Hong lost. Here’s what it means for progressives.

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Benjy Sarlin

Everybody needs a personal AI policy. Just ask Hank Green.

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Marina Bolotnikova

Trump’s catering truck caper

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Caitlin Dewey

Does Trump even have an agenda anymore?

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Cameron Peters

How Ukraine is holding its own against Russia — and changing warfare as we know it

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Kelli Wessinger

Why progressives are backing off “Woke 1”

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Astead Herndon

Trump is searching for the Supreme Court’s breaking point on birthright citizenship

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Ian Millhiser

Israel can afford to lose US aid

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Caitlin Dewey

Trump takes aim at childhood vaccines

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Cameron Peters

“It’s the fitness space’s Eras Tour”: How Hyrox became the exercise cult of the moment

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Alex Abad-Santos

A new housing politics is taking shape on the left

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Marina Bolotnikova

The left is winning the argument on aid to Israel. The next step will be harder.

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Eric Levitz

How to staycation better

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Jonquilyn Hill

The doomsday threat we’re ignoring

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Avishay Artsy

The strange reason flu shots have been so hard to improve

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Bryan Walsh

Donald Trump has a gas problem

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Cameron Peters

Fast fashion is terrible for the planet. Can wardrobe cataloging apps help?

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07.08.2026 10

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Constance Grady

2026 is Gen Z’s breakout summer

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07.08.2026 10

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Rachel Janfaza

The early-2000s money trend that’s still relevant today

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Anna North

Trump’s imaginary Red Scare

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07.08.2026 4

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Dustin Desoto

AI models have learned how to cheat. That might actually be a good thing.

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07.08.2026 10

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Bryan Walsh

The flu shot finally gets an upgrade

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06.08.2026 3

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Caitlin Dewey

Is the US running out of missiles?

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Cameron Peters

A socialist candidate criticized Thanksgiving — and unearthed a deeper debate on the left

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Andrew Prokop

The FOMO of not seeing The Odyssey in 70 mm IMAX

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06.08.2026 6

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Alex Abad-Santos

India’s internet war

How India’s Cockroach movement turned the internet on Modi. In 2014, Narendra Modi pioneered the use of social media and digital campaigning in...

06.08.2026 6

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Nate Krieger

How video games can make young men feel less alone

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06.08.2026 6

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Constance Grady

Hackers just broke into America’s tap water

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Sara Herschander

Rise of the AI-ristocracy

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06.08.2026 8

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Sara Herschander

What an Abdul El-Sayed win means for Muslim voters

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06.08.2026 8

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Christian Paz

Can a different kind of Democrat win the Midwest?

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05.08.2026 6

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Caitlin Dewey

Abdul El-Sayed’s win tees up the first true swing state test for the Bernie left

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05.08.2026 6

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Andrew Prokop

A Trump administration rule could stop a powerful tool for exposing animal cruelty

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05.08.2026 6

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Kenny Torrella

The truth about rent control

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05.08.2026 5

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Marina Bolotnikova

How to tolerate uncertainty in a world that’s full of it

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05.08.2026 5

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Elizabeth Weingarten

Wildfires come for the suburbs

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04.08.2026 7

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Caitlin Dewey

All the president’s construction projects

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04.08.2026 8

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Cameron Peters

What’s the difference between fashionably late and straight-up rude? We asked three experts.

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04.08.2026 10

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Allie Volpe

Can a community be designed to live longer?

Can a community be designed to live longer? “Blue zones” are places around the world where people have been reported to live longer, healthier...

04.08.2026 4

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Frank Posillico

How Michigan’s Uncommitted movement shaped a Senate race

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04.08.2026 5

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Astead Herndon

The quiet way Republicans are trying to undo abortion rights again — starting in Kansas

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04.08.2026 6

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Christian Paz

The simple idea that helped prevent millions of traffic deaths

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04.08.2026 20

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Bryan Walsh