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The 4 main conservative defenses for Trump against impeachment, explained

Only one of them makes sense.

By Jane Coaston

Is positive psychology all it’s cracked up to be?

The field of positive psychology has captivated the world with its hopeful promises — and drawn critics for its moralizing, mysticism, and serious commercialization.

By Joseph Smith

Thursday’s impeachment testimony makes the Burisma-Biden connection undeniable

Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker were not telling the whole truth.

By Alex Ward

Why did Trump let the Ukraine aid through?

How David Holmes’s impeachment testimony bears on one of the scandal’s biggest mysteries.

By Andrew Prokop

The key moment from Fiona Hill’s testimony

Republicans accidentally got Hill to decry the White House’s "political errand" in Ukraine.

By Zack Beauchamp

Tim Cook is just letting Trump lie about Apple

Trump keeps saying Apple just opened a plant in Texas. The problem: The facility in question has been around since 2013.

By Emily Stewart

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted on corruption charges

This is a huge, huge deal.

By Zack Beauchamp

4 winners and 3 losers from the November Democratic debate

Winner: Cory Booker. Loser: asylum seekers.

By Dylan Matthews, Emily Stewart, and 4 others

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Impeachment TV: Mr. Sondland Goes to Washington

The most-anticipated testimony of the House impeachment inquiry was held today on Capitol Hill. It did not disappoint.

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Why a robot pizza startup could be worth $4 billion

By Theodore Schleifer

Impeachment, explained

By Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Prokop

She was fatally strangled. The media is making it about her sex life.

By Anna North

Michael Bloomberg is probably definitely going to run for president

By Emily Stewart

Congress passes bill to avert another government shutdown — for now

By Li Zhou and Ella Nilsen

There’s more to life than profit

By Ezra Klein

Joker director Todd Phillips says tales of a sequel are greatly exaggerated

By Aja Romano

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The Pete Buttigieg surge, explained

By Ella Nilsen
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Airline CEOs to climate activists: You’re right, our industry is a big problem

By Umair Irfan

On Frozen 2 and Disney’s nostalgia problem

By Alissa Wilkinson

Read Fiona Hill’s scathing opening statement in the impeachment hearings

By Aaron Rupar

In the age of online shopping, where do IRL salespeople fit in?

By Terry Nguyen

The state of the 2020 Democratic primary

By Sean Collins

Gender equity was at the forefront of the fifth Democratic debate

By Li Zhou

It took a debate with all-female moderators to ask Democrats about paid family leave

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

The most substantive answers from November’s Democratic debate

By Zack Beauchamp, Li Zhou, and 2 others

We read all 25 National Book Award finalists for 2019. Here’s what we thought.

By Constance Grady, Nisha Chittal, and 14 others

This debate confirmed there is no Democratic presidential frontrunner

By Ella Nilsen

Everything you need to know about the next Democratic debate

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Yes, a government can shut down the internet

Iran's government shut down the internet, after widespread protests over the cost of fuel - how is that possible, and what does that mean for its people?

Would a female candidate be treated like Pete Buttigieg? Amy Klobuchar sees a double standard.

By Anna North

The single worst idea proposed at the Democratic debate

By Ian Millhiser

Bernie Sanders wants to take fossil fuel companies to criminal court

By Umair Irfan

Google transformed the political advertising world with its reversal on targeting

By Theodore Schleifer

A top Pentagon official severely undercut a Trump impeachment talking point

By Alex Ward

Joker director Todd Phillips wants to do a sequel — and more DC origin stories

By Aja Romano

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Trump’s new “NO QUID PRO QUO” talking point is a trick

By Aaron Rupar

Gordon Sondland is being called the next John Dean. Here’s why.

By Ian Millhiser

DoorDash and Uber Eats aren’t collecting sales tax on delivery fees in some states. That could be a problem.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Trump’s desire for investigations morphed into US policy

By Jen Kirby

Sondland says he told Pence about Trump and Ukraine. Pence says that “never happened.”

By Katelyn Burns

Kamala Harris’s decline in the polls, explained

By Li Zhou

Trump’s agreements in Central America are dismantling the asylum system as we know it

By Nicole Narea

We never really got rid of the plague. 3 people in China just caught it.

By Sigal Samuel

Taylor Swift’s “Beautiful Ghosts” might be the best part of the Cats movie

By Aja Romano

Prince Andrew steps back from public duties after Jeffrey Epstein interview

By Scott Nover and Anna North

Read Trump’s very large, very strange Sharpie notes on impeachment

By Hannah Brown

America needs to hear — under oath — from Pompeo, Perry, Pence, and Bolton

By Matthew Yglesias

Trump before Sondland’s testimony: “He’s a great American.” Trump after: “This is not a man I know well.”

By Aaron Rupar