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The violent protests in Iraq, explained

Protesters in Basra, Iraq, have torched nearly every government building in the city — and Iran’s consulate — in the last 48 hours.

Michael Cohen wants to scrap the Stormy Daniels NDA

He wants the $130,000 in hush money back, too. But Michael Avenatti sees it as a way to avoid a deposition.

Ben Shapiro’s revealing explanation for Donald Trump’s rise: it’s all Obama’s fault

There’s a reason the right wants to blame Obama for Trump.

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Kavanaugh bragged about his clerks’ diversity. His legal record is another story.

Vox Sentences: If you voted in North Carolina, ICE wants to see your records

The US and Canada haven’t budged on NAFTA

Rapper Mac Miller is dead at 26

Papadopoulos given 14-day sentence as part of the Mueller investigation

Nixon White House counsel: Trump doesn’t respect the rule of law

Barack Obama’s crucial insight into the crisis of American democracy

Kavanaugh’s description of birth control as “abortion-inducing drugs,” explained

Obama wants Democrats to quit their addiction to the status quo

His family helped cause the opioid crisis. Now he might profit from addiction treatment.

Trump wants Jeff Sessions to investigate the anonymous New York Times op-ed

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Obama to Trump: “How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad.”

The week’s 4 most important health care stories

Julia Salazar, the socialist politician accused of lying about her past, explained

Trump says a shutdown would be a “great political issue” 2 months from the midterms

Turkey’s last-ditch effort to stop mass slaughter in Syria just failed

Read the full transcript of Obama’s fiery anti-Trump speech

In Fahrenheit 11/9, Michael Moore spares no one — especially self-satisfied liberals

Whole Foods employees are worried about new owner Amazon — so they’re trying to unionize

Nike, Colin Kaepernick, and the history of “commodity activism”

Electric scooters’ sudden invasion of American cities, explained

House Democrats accuse Republicans of shutting down Hurricane Maria investigation

Live results for Thursday’s Delaware primaries

6 things you need to know to understand the Jewish High Holy Days

Serena Williams, working mom hero 

The Brett Kavanaugh perjury controversy, explained by 4 legal scholars

Kavanaugh, the NYT op-ed, and the failure of Trump-skeptical Republicans

This is what life was like for women in America before Roe v. Wade

Peter Kavinsky and Barb from Stranger Things can’t salvage Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

“The fish rots from the head”: a historian on the unique corruption of Trump’s White House

House and Senate interns are going to get paid — if Congress passes this spending bill

Why your desk job is so damn exhausting

The radical moral implications of luck in human life

Director Michel Gondry on reuniting with Jim Carrey and making the leap to TV

Republicans are arguing that Medicare-for-all will undermine Medicare

The 4 House GOP scandals that could tip the 2018 midterms, explained