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This is the Trump administration’s dark reboot

With a new chief of staff, Trump's refocusing on his top priority: making America afraid again.

Bogotá closes its roads every Sunday. Now everyone wants to do it.

The Ciclovía is the world’s most successful mass recreation event.

7 winners and 6 losers from a Game of Thrones full of twists of fate

Winners: Cersei Lannister and foreshadowing. Losers: A lot of other characters.

Donald Trump called gang members “animals.” That’s dehumanizing — and dangerous.

The case Trump’s language “justifies or even mandates violence.” 

Reince Priebus’s ouster as chief of staff, explained

Trump’s chief of staff is out after just six months.

The GOP’s massive health care failures, explained

How Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump botched Obamacare repeal.

I was skeptical that the anti-vaccine movement was gaining traction. Not anymore.

Trump has energized the vaccine skeptics, and that’s dangerous.

Anthony Scaramucci, explained

He’s not here to “suck his own cock.”

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Russia is retaliating against new US sanctions in a big way

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Trump blamed China for North Korea. Then he changed his mind. Then he changed it again.

“Will I go blind?”: 20 questions about the total solar eclipse you were too embarrassed to ask

Why capitalism can’t survive without socialism

Room 104, HBO’s exciting new anthology, crams The Twilight Zone into a single hotel room

Need some joy? Here, have Lupita Nyong’o shimmying around Comic-Con in secret cosplay

Congress has tied Trump’s hands on Russian sanctions

The Trump administration’s chaos has reached an astounding new level

8 pieces of can’t-miss pop culture to check out this weekend

Spectacle fuels the media in Billy Wilder’s prophetic 1951 satire Ace in the Hole

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Why John Kelly is the perfect pick for Trump's new chief of staff

Report: Reince Priebus literally got kicked out of the presidential motorcade

The most alarming passages from Trump’s fearmongering Long Island speech

Trump tells cops they should rough people up more during arrests

Obamacare repeal isn’t dead. It’s just directionless.

Trump just delivered the most chilling speech of his presidency

The most important stories of the week, explained

“Diversity is a strength”: a retired admiral tweets against Trump’s proposed trans ban

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How John McCain earned the “maverick” reputation he just lived up to on health care

3 winners and 2 losers from the failure of the latest Senate health bill

Why Alaska's Lisa Murkowski isn’t afraid of Donald Trump

Charlie Gard: sick infant at center of UK medical ethics controversy dies

McCain explains his dramatic vote against the GOP’s last-ditch Obamacare repeal idea

North Korea just tested a missile that can hit New York and Washington

Al Gore’s new Inconvenient Truth sequel is a strange artifact of a post-truth year

The Senate’s health care fiasco is a bad omen for tax reform

Congress has handcuffed Donald Trump on Russia

The FDA just took a radical step to cut nicotine in cigarettes so they're not addictive

Obama camp praises everyone who “made their voices heard” against GOP health care bill

After 7 seasons, Game of Thrones finally pulled off a genuinely moving sex scene

Trump can’t just repeal Jeff Sessions. He’d have to replace him.