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The polls are in: here’s who won — and lost — last week’s debate

Here’s how Biden, Warren, Sanders, Harris, Buttigieg, and Yang have moved in the polls.

By Andrew Prokop

The fight over Joker and the new movie’s “dangerous” message, explained

Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker is the subject of a furious debate. It hasn’t even been released yet.

By Alex Abad-Santos

Apple’s VP of communications is leaving the company

Steve Dowling, who has headed Apple’s communications for the last five years, is leaving after 16 years at the company.

By Kara Swisher

The Brett Kavanaugh allegations and the problem with “boys will be boys”

A developmental psychologist explains "the brutal humor of masculinity."

By Constance Grady

Trump retweets lie that Ilhan Omar “partied” on 9/11 anniversary

Trump’s latest smear of Ilhan Omar may be his most grotesque yet.

By Aaron Rupar

Trump started a huge legal battle with California over lowering car emission standards

Trump revoked a longstanding waiver that allows California to set higher fuel emission standards than the federal government.

By Ella Nilsen

The New York Times is the latest news outlet to end its Spanish-language coverage

Two other outlets have scaled back in recent months.

By Nicole Narea

California just passed a landmark law to regulate Uber and Lyft

Drivers will likely get health care and paid time off under the law.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s decade-long hold on power may be coming to an end. Anyone up for peace?

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Why Spain is having yet another election

By Jen Kirby

Trump just asked the Supreme Court to let him fire the CFPB’s head. The implications are enormous.

By Ian Millhiser

The University of California system is ending its investment in fossil fuels

By Umair Irfan

A Russian lab containing smallpox and Ebola exploded

By Kelsey Piper

Flavored vapes are facing a ban. What does that mean for vapers?

By Terry Nguyen

How the GM workers strike makes Bernie Sanders’s case for Medicare-for-all

By Tara Golshan

5 great movies from TIFF that flew under the radar

By Alissa Wilkinson

The secret history of Area 51, explained by an expert

By Alex Ward

Corey Lewandowski confessed to gaslighting the press. CNN booked him hours later anyway.

By Aaron Rupar
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Poll: Two-thirds of Americans want to break up companies like Amazon and Google

By Emily Stewart

Trump picks his top hostage negotiator to serve as national security adviser

By Jen Kirby

Israel’s election results show Netanyahu is in serious trouble

By Zack Beauchamp

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By Dylan Scott

A new USDA rule gives pork producers more control. That could endanger consumers.

By Kelsey Piper

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on why cable news is suddenly talking so much about climate change

By Umair Irfan

Walmart shootings prompt retailers to change their open-carry policies

By Hilary George-Parkin

To bring “prestige” back to education, make teachers tax-exempt, says Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman

By Eric Johnson

Corey Lewandowski’s chaotic congressional testimony, explained

By Andrew Prokop

Climate activist Greta Thunberg used her superpower of shaming adults on Senate Democrats

By Ella Nilsen

How Fox News twisted the Kavanaugh scandal into a way to attack the New York Times

By Aaron Rupar

Greta Thunberg is leading kids and adults from 150 countries in a massive Friday climate strike

By Umair Irfan

Ayanna Pressley just filed an impeachment resolution against Brett Kavanaugh in the House

By Li Zhou

Andrew Yang’s use of Asian stereotypes is reinforcing toxic tropes

By Li Zhou

GM workers are on strike to accomplish what Trump couldn’t

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Why the debate over the legality of Andrew Yang’s $120,000 UBI pilot doesn’t really matter

By Sean Collins

These scientists want to make psychotherapy sessions much, much shorter

By Brian Resnick
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Taliban suicide bomber kills at least 26 at Afghan president campaign rally

By Jen Kirby

Trump’s weird ideas on the US-Saudi relationship, sort of explained

By Matthew Yglesias

Why Corey Lewandowski is testifying about the Mueller report

By Andrew Prokop

The Air Force spent more at Trump’s Scottish resort than originally thought

By Sean Collins

Silicon Valley is throwing Trump a fundraiser. They’d just rather not talk about it.

By Theodore Schleifer

Trump makes profoundly bizarre sales pitch to Latino voters in New Mexico

By Aaron Rupar

India’s scary new detention camps, explained

By Sigal Samuel

Israel’s election, and how Benjamin Netanyahu might lose, explained

By Zack Beauchamp

“It’s young people, it’s their future”: Inside the Sunrise Movement’s bid to save the world

A growing group of crusaders have made strides putting climate change on the national agenda. Most aren’t even 30.

By Ella Nilsen

How billionaire philanthropy provides reproductive health care when politicians won’t

By Kelsey Piper

Money Talks: She moved home to save money — and her mom never wants her to leave

By Julie Vadnal

The astounding advantage the Electoral College gives to Republicans, in one chart

By Ian Millhiser