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The Putin summit may backfire on Biden

The biggest risk Biden faces won’t come during the Putin summit. It’ll possibly come right afterward.

By Alex Ward

Call it authoritarianism

The Republican Party has embraced an agenda that rigs the rules in their favor. There’s a name for that behavior.

By Zack Beauchamp

Amazon’s Black employees say the company’s HR department is failing them

In interviews with Recode, dozens of Amazon employees detailed allegations of racial bias and discrimination.

By Jason Del Rey

“Back to normal” puts us back on the path to climate catastrophe

The data is in: The pandemic did nothing to slow climate change.

By Rebecca Leber

Hate crime laws won’t actually prevent anti-Asian hate crimes

By centering policing, they do little to address the root cause.

By Li Zhou

Lina Khan will be chair of the Federal Trade Commission

Democrats and Republicans came together to confirm the antitrust expert to the FTC.

By Rebecca Heilweil

Travelers have gotten rowdy. This Instagram account aims to keep them in line.

Passenger Shaming documents the bad behavior of unruly vacationers. Does it work?

By Rebecca Jennings

MacKenzie Scott gives away billions, again

With a recent $2.7 billion announcement, the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos has donated $8.5 billion in less than a year.

By Sara Morrison

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The pandemic could help Americans finally embrace aging skin.

By Anna North June 15

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Elon Musk says Tesla will once again accept bitcoin

By Rani Molla June 14

The Asian American wealth gap, explained in a comic

By Lok Siu and Jamie Noguchi June 14

Money Talks: The mother and the college student who shared stimulus checks

By Nicole Dieker June 14

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By Emily VanDerWerff June 14

The DOJ has a plan to protect voting rights. It might not be enough.

By Cameron Peters June 13

The fall of “King Bibi”

By Zack Beauchamp June 13

The richest colleges didn’t need to cut their budgets in the pandemic — but they did

By Gregory Svirnovskiy June 13

Biden plans to reverse Trump’s Alaska policy. Here’s why it matters.

By Maryam Gamar June 12

What Facebook’s two-year Trump ban does and doesn’t do

By Rebecca Heilweil June 12

Colombia’s protests are a product of its post-peace-deal reality

By Jen Kirby June 12

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One possible cause of the 2020 murder increase: More guns

By Rob Arthur and Jeff Asher June 12

How stressed out are factory-farmed animals? AI might have the answer.

By Laura Bridgeman June 12

What the new IG report about the gassing of protesters around Lafayette Square actually says

By Aaron Rupar June 11

What you need to know about the House’s opening bid to rein in Big Tech

By Shirin Ghaffary and Sara Morrison June 11

What are you legally allowed to say at work? A group of fired Googlers could change the rules.

By Shirin Ghaffary June 11

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By Constance Grady June 11

The controversy over Bill Gates becoming the largest private farmland owner in the US

By Rebecca Heilweil June 11

Biden’s plan to increase legal immigration could aid the pandemic economy recovery

By Nicole Narea June 11

Is there an uncontroversial way to teach America’s racist history?

By Sean Illing June 11

Wall Street isn’t to blame for the chaotic housing market

By Jerusalem Demsas June 11

The pandemic tattoo craze is here

By Terry Nguyen June 11

How In the Heights went from a student musical to one of the summer’s biggest movies

By Constance Grady June 11

Indigenous people are the world’s biggest conservationists, but they rarely get credit for it

By Benji Jones June 11

The Other Black Girl is a pulpy, joyous thrill ride of a book

By Constance Grady June 10

Why Democrats are voting on bills that have no chance of passing

By Li Zhou June 10

The Keystone XL pipeline is dead. But the fight against similar projects is far from over.

By Jariel Arvin June 10

JBS Foods, the meat supplier hit by a ransomware attack, admits it paid $11 million in ransom

By Sara Morrison June 10

The new Alzheimer’s drug that could break Medicare

By Dylan Scott June 10

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By Gray Chapman June 10

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