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A federal court just reinstated DACA, and the implications go far beyond immigration

A federal judge handed immigrants a big win — and gave President-elect Biden a potential crisis.

By Ian Millhiser

The Trump administration extends the freeze on student loan payments through January

Biden and Congress will have until January 31, 2021 to decide how to help over 40 million student loan borrowers.

By Zeeshan Aleem

The CDC wants us to mask up indoors. Will Americans listen?

Take this quiz to guess how Americans behave.

By Youyou Zhou

The controversy behind a star Google AI researcher’s departure 

Timnit Gebru says she was pushed out of the company; now some are worried it will have a chilling effect on academics in tech.

By Shirin Ghaffary

What happened to department stores?

The fates of the American middle class and American department stores have always been intertwined.

By Recode and The Goods

How Melbourne eradicated Covid-19

Life is almost back to normal in Melbourne, Australia. Here’s how they did it.

By Dylan Scott

The scariest thing about global warming (and Covid-19)

"Shifting baselines syndrome" means we could quickly get used to climate chaos.

By David Roberts

Mysterious monoliths are appearing across the world. Here’s what we know.

We don’t know where the mysterious monoliths come from. But we do know they’re art.

By Constance Grady

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A woman’s work is never done

Millions of women left the workforce as Covid-19 forced school closures, but that doesn’t mean they have less on their plates. Is government-funded child care the answer?

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Trump’s withdrawal of US troops from Somalia, briefly explained

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Trump’s legal team advances yet another far-fetched lawsuit in Georgia

By Zeeshan Aleem

The EU’s biggest oil producer has taken a huge step: It’s ending oil production by 2050

By Jariel Arvin

Why every state should adopt a mask mandate, in 4 charts

By Lois Parshley and Youyou Zhou

The exponential rise in Covid-19 hospitalizations, in one chart

By Eliza Barclay and Dylan Scott

The Trump-backed opposition leader in Venezuela is likely to lose his power

By Alex Ward

The House of Representatives voted to legalize marijuana

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The pandemic was great for Zoom. What happens when there’s a vaccine?

By Rani Molla

Why the AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine is different

By Julia Belluz and Umair Irfan

We admire these do-gooders. We just don’t want to date them.

By Sigal Samuel

David Fincher’s new movie Mank is a broadside against Hollywood self-congratulation

By Alissa Wilkinson

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By Alissa Wilkinson

The best $294 I ever spent: Getting my hair braided

By Loré Yessuff

How retailers track your every move in exchange for coupons and convenience

By Sara Morrison

Mark Zuckerberg gave $75 million to a San Francisco hospital. The city wants to condemn him anyway.

By Theodore Schleifer

Ethiopia’s unfolding humanitarian crisis, explained by a top aid official

By Jen Kirby

WarnerMedia’s CEO explains why he’s blowing up the movie business

By Peter Kafka

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Kaiser’s Jennifer Kates joins Matt to explain the next steps in countering the pandemic

The UN now says medical weed is a less dangerous drug

By Jariel Arvin

Obama said “defund the police” is a bad slogan. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

By Rachel Ramirez

Federal watchdog says “substantial likelihood of wrongdoing” at US broadcasting agency

By Alex Ward

Rudy Giuliani’s bizarre legal strategy, in two clips

By Jerusalem Demsas

What one of Amazon’s biggest critics thinks the future of the retail industry means for workers

By Shirin Ghaffary

AI has cracked a problem that stumped biologists for 50 years. It’s a huge deal.

By Sigal Samuel

America’s failures have led to a new daily record in Covid-19 deaths

By Dylan Scott

A new Georgia poll suggests that Republican lies about “voter fraud” are hurting the GOP

By Ian Millhiser

Online shopping is booming but so are returns. An old-school solution is gaining steam

By Jason Del Rey

Why the CDC changed its Covid-19 quarantine guidelines

By German Lopez

Joe Biden is taking office amid a poverty crisis

By Dylan Matthews
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The Armenia and Azerbaijan war, explained

By Sam Ellis

Decking the halls for pandemic Christmas

By Jolie Kerr

How millennials became the burnout generation

By Sean Illing

South Korea just changed a longstanding military law for the sake of BTS

By Aja Romano

Singapore is the first country in the world to approve lab-grown chicken products

By Kelsey Piper

Why tens of thousands of farmers are blocking roads into India’s capital city

By Jariel Arvin

A surprising number of government agencies buy cellphone location data. Lawmakers want to know why.

By Sara Morrison

China and Australia are in a nasty diplomatic spat over a fake tweet — and real war crimes

By Alex Ward

Congress seems ready to pass a bipartisan $908 billion stimulus — if Mitch McConnell says yes

By Ella Nilsen and Jerusalem Demsas