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Bernie Sanders’s Joe Rogan experience

Joe Rogan’s controversial endorsement of Bernie Sanders, explained.

By Zack Beauchamp

The dark underbelly of Amazon Prime Video

Nearly two-thirds of the videos on Amazon’s streaming service are user-generated content. Lots of them are ... odd.

By Rani Molla

A SARS-like virus is spreading quickly. Here’s what you need to know.

More than a thousand people have been sickened by a new coronavirus in at least a dozen countries, including the US.

By Julia Belluz

Trump’s impeachment trial countermessaging has been tasteless and incorrect tweets

The president’s bad tweets reflect a broader toxicity.

By Aaron Rupar

Trump said no US troops were hurt in the Iran strike. The number is now up to 34.

First, it was "no casualties." Then, 11 military members injured. Now? It’s 34.

By Alex Ward

Who are the #HotGirlsForBernie?

The grassroots campaign is a pushback against the "Bernie Bro" stereotype.

By Rebecca Jennings

GOP senator shrugs off new evidence of Trump misconduct, contradicting his stance from hours earlier

Hours after complaining about no new evidence, John Barrasso dismissed new evidence.

By Aaron Rupar

A secret recording of a Trump dinner confirms one of Lev Parnas’s allegations

ABC News broke news of the recording Friday.

By Andrew Prokop

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The Crown Prince and the Amazon King

Did Mohammed Bin Salman hack Jeff Bezos? Recode’s Peter Kafka returns with an update and Kara Swisher explains Saudi Arabia's impunity in the tech world.

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9 highlights from the impeachment trial this week

By Li Zhou

Why a question about Ukraine sent Mike Pompeo into a rage

By Cameron Peters

In Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, the closing of a dive bar stands in for the end of the world

By Alissa Wilkinson

Trump’s Space Force boldly goes where Star Trek went before

By Ian Millhiser

“They are coming after me because I am fighting for you”: Trump at March for Life

By Anna North

The Fight explores how the ACLU is navigating the Trump era through 4 key cases

By Alissa Wilkinson

1917 vividly recreates WWI’s trench warfare. Is that enough to win Best Picture?

By Alissa Wilkinson, Alex Ward, and 1 other

Impeachment, explained

By Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Prokop

Crip Camp is a stirring introduction to the summer camp that sparked the disability rights movement

By Alissa Wilkinson
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Invasion Day is a day of mourning for Indigenous Australians. The bushfires make this year extra poignant.

By Nylah Burton

Lizzo, Billie Eilish, and Lil Nas X lead the 2020 Grammy nominees

By Allegra Frank

The top UN court ordered Myanmar to protect the Rohingya. An expert explains what it means.

By Jen Kirby

Mitch McConnell’s impeachment trial strategy, explained

By Andrew Prokop

Will Once Upon a Time in Hollywood finally win Quentin Tarantino the Best Picture Oscar?

By Alissa Wilkinson, Aja Romano, and 1 other

Thousands in Iraq called for US troops to leave the country. But there’s more to the story.

By Alex Ward

Some opioid executives are finally going to prison

By German Lopez

Your Slack DMs aren’t as private as you think

By Rebecca Heilweil

Schiff ends day in the impeachment trial by telling the Senate, “If right doesn’t matter, we’re lost”

By Aaron Rupar

What polarization data from 9 countries reveals about the US

By Ezra Klein

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Kashmir’s internet has been shut down for 5 months

The Indian government shut the internet down in Kashmir in August last year: what this means for Kashmiris living without the internet - and what it says about the world’s largest democracy.

Thailand’s playboy king isn’t playing around

By Richard Bernstein

Netflix’s The Goop Lab pushes flimsy wellness trends. But it’s strong on vulvas.

By Julia Belluz and Brian Resnick

What it’s like to live through the Australian bushfires

By Jessica Machado

Is it okay to sacrifice one person to save many? How you answer depends on where you’re from.

By Sigal Samuel

Greta Gerwig’s fresh take on Little Women won’t win Best Picture, but it should

By Alissa Wilkinson, Constance Grady, and 1 other

How Republicans made millions on the tax cuts they pushed through Congress

By Peter Cary / Center for Public Integrity

Inside the secret Twitter rooms where Debra Messing, Don Cheadle, and the rest of the celebrity #Resistance organizes

By Emily Stewart

The coronavirus outbreak is not yet a global health emergency, WHO says

By Julia Belluz

The Trump administration’s new “birth tourism” policy, explained

By Anna North, Nicole Narea, and 1 other

Odd Job: He lost his leg in Afghanistan. Now he reenacts that horrible day to train others for battle.

By Luke Winkie

House Democrats are using Lindsey Graham’s own words to rebut the president’s defense

By Li Zhou

Republicans complain about the impeachment trial’s lack of new evidence while blocking new evidence

By Aaron Rupar

The Doomsday Clock is now at “100 seconds to midnight.” Here’s what that means.

By Kelsey Piper

Democrats’ opening arguments demonstrate the overwhelming case for impeachment

By Li Zhou

The right keeps attacking Greta Thunberg’s identity, not her ideas

By Anna North

It’s Steven Mnuchin who should listen to economists on climate change

By Matthew Yglesias

Joker is the most-nominated film at this year’s Oscars. It shouldn’t win Best Picture.

By Alissa Wilkinson, Emily Todd VanDerWerff, and 1 other

Tulsi Gabbard asked Twitter’s Jack Dorsey to hold a fundraiser for her. He said no.

By Theodore Schleifer

Kansas’s ag-gag law has been ruled unconstitutional

By Kelsey Piper

23andMe laid off 100 employees due to slowing DNA kit sales

By Rani Molla