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A former Republican Congress member explains what happened to his party

And why it belongs to Trump now.

By Sean Illing

Hong Kong demonstrators see a massive turnout on the six month anniversary of protests

Protest groups say 800,000 people participated in pro-democracy demonstrations Sunday, the latest in a series of anti-government protests that began in June.

By Zeeshan Aleem

The extraordinary danger of being pregnant and uninsured in Texas

The state’s system for helping the uninsured thwarts women at every turn and encourages subpar care.

By Julia Belluz and Nina Martin

Rudy Giuliani just blew up Trump’s “no quid pro quo” talking point

Posting from somewhere in Ukraine, Trump’s lawyer tweets the quid pro quo.

By Aaron Rupar

Trump orders review of EPA water rules because “people are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times”

Trump has often complained about environmental regulations, and now claims water efficient toilets are causing problems.

By Katelyn Burns

Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver are devastating in the brilliant, brutal Marriage Story

Noah Baumbach’s outstanding new film turns divorce into a reminder of love’s many shades.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Trump isn’t allowed at NATO’s cool kids’ table in SNL’s cold open

Parodying a viral video in which world leaders complain about Trump, SNL turned NATO into high school: Macron and Trudeau became bullies who won’t let Trump sit with them at lunch.

By Zeeshan Aleem

This year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award recognizes a passage comparing a penis to a small monkey

And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.

By Constance Grady

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“This will end when one of us dies”

ProPublica’s Lizzie Presser explains why Americans are being jailed for their medical debt.

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90 percent of growth in high-tech jobs happened in just 5 metro areas

By Rani Molla

Watchmen episode 8 has an Adrian Veidt-centric post-credits scene. It’s bonkers. 

By Alex Abad-Santos

Watchmen becomes an aching, beautiful love story in its next-to-last episode

By Emily Todd VanDerWerff, Alex Abad-Santos, and 1 other

Wonder Woman 1984’s first trailer teases the triumphant return of Gal Gadot — and the 1980s

By Alex Abad-Santos

Pensacola, Florida, Naval Air Station shooting: what we know

By German Lopez and Katelyn Burns

New House Judiciary Committee report defines impeachable offenses 

By Katelyn Burns

The Supreme Court just handed the Trump administration a rare rebuke

By Ian Millhiser

White House declines to be involved in House impeachment inquiry, leaving defense to Republican lawmakers

By Katelyn Burns

Pete Buttigieg’s McKinsey problem, explained

By Emily Stewart and Ella Nilsen
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Impeachment, explained

By Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Prokop

The government keeps its use of facial recognition tech secret. The ACLU is suing.

By Delia Paunescu

How Andrew Johnson’s impeachment created the template for Trump’s

By Ezra Klein

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It’s not just passengers being assaulted in Ubers. Drivers are at risk, too.

By Anna North

Vox Sentences: The president’s offenses

By Hannah Brown

Bloomberg’s first TV interview showed him to be exactly who progressives feared he was

By Zeeshan Aleem

Uber’s sexual assault report won’t hurt it as badly as other incidents

By Rani Molla

Uber says it’s focusing on safety. Its new report shows that there’s far more to be done.

By Terry Nguyen

The best books I read in 2019

By Constance Grady

Venezuela’s opposition leader failed to depose Maduro. He explains why he’s not giving up.

By Alex Ward

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Don't curl your lashes and talk about Uighurs on TikTok

TikTok, the video sharing app that has taken the tweens and 2019 by storm, is now facing still competition, concerns over censorship, and a federal investigation.

Waves star Sterling K. Brown learned a lot about parenting from playing a father on screen

By Alissa Wilkinson

The House has passed a bill to restore key parts of the Voting Rights Act

By Ella Nilsen

This comedy of manners from 2012 perfectly anticipated the 2010s’ reckoning with misogyny

By Constance Grady

Trump’s use of a personal cellphone means Russia could have intel about Ukraine calls

By Zeeshan Aleem

Could this be Trump’s orange makeup?

By Cheryl Wischhover

Hundreds of wacky, obsolete laws still exist. Why don’t more states remove them?

By Michael Waters

The Trump campaign’s boast about impeachment polling is actually an own goal

By Aaron Rupar

Pregnant people are being offered an unproven treatment to “reverse” abortions

By Anna North

There is no culture war peace treaty

By Zack Beauchamp

Republicans are introducing a new compromise LGBTQ rights bill. But everyone already hates it.

By Katelyn Burns

2 Nobel-winning economists speak out on our big economic problem: not enough immigration

By Dylan Matthews

Peter Singer on the lives you can save

By Ezra Klein

The Supreme Court considers a $12 billion plan to sabotage Obamacare

By Ian Millhiser

Could squeezing more oil out of the ground help fight climate change?

By David Roberts

“Professional bridesmaid” is an actual job. Meet a woman who does it.

By Luke Winkie

Americans want a woman to take down Trump. Just not in the election.

By Anna North

Jeff Bezos finally added 2 more women to Amazon’s senior leadership team — joining 19 men

By Jason Del Rey

Amazon Prime one-day shipping apparently doesn’t mean one-day delivery

By Jason Del Rey

The Gates Foundation has enormous impact. Its CEO leaving could have an enormous impact, too.

By Theodore Schleifer

Julián Castro explains his vision for a “progressive” foreign policy as president

By Alex Ward