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Amazon’s $0 corporate income tax bill last year, explained

The mystery of stock-based compensation.

By Matthew Yglesias

Pramila Jayapal is Congress’s activist insider

Here’s how Jayapal plans to make Democratic leadership take progressives seriously.

By Ella Nilsen

Marco Rubio’s plan to fix the GOP tax cuts starts with stock buybacks

Republicans said the tax cuts would lead to a big boost in business investment. It hasn’t, and Rubio wants to fix that.

By Dylan Scott and Emily Stewart

Trump wants better AI. He also wants less immigration. He can’t have both.

If America plans to win a global AI race, it needs to welcome non-Americans.

By Sigal Samuel

New Gallup data shows a possible path to victory for Bernie Sanders

The report shows why Sanders might win the Democratic nomination — and how he could lose.

By Zack Beauchamp

Could BlacKkKlansman finally snag Spike Lee the Oscar he deserves?

Our roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Lee’s searing indictment of white supremacy.

By Alissa Wilkinson, Todd VanDerWerff, and 2 others

Why we can’t look away from before-and-after pictures

From Jenna Jameson’s keto diet progress to the #10YearChallenge, people love transformation pictures. But do they do more harm than good?

By Cheryl Wischhover

House Dems reveal new info on a shady White House plan to sell nuclear tech to Saudi Arabia

Michael Flynn, Trump’s disgraced former national security adviser, was behind it.

By Alex Ward

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Digital advertising in the US is finally bigger than print and television

By Kurt Wagner

CNN hires GOP operative with no journalism experience to coordinate its 2020 coverage

By Aaron Rupar

The Trump administration reportedly wants to push countries to decriminalize homosexuality

By Jen Kirby

The FDA says buying young people’s blood won’t stop you from aging

By Chavie Lieber

Hate crime or hoax? The drama behind the Jussie Smollett case, explained.

By Amanda Sakuma and German Lopez

Roma would be an unusual Best Picture winner. Here’s why it deserves the honor.

By Alissa Wilkinson, Nisha Chittal, and 2 others

Karl Lagerfeld’s long history of disparaging fat women

By Rebecca Jennings

Roger Stone appeared to threaten his judge on Instagram. She’s now ordered him back to court.

By Jen Kirby

This writer spent 4 years working as a fake violinist. Her memoir explains post-9/11 America.

By Constance Grady

Karl Lagerfeld lost 92 pounds using a diet he called a “sort of punishment”

By Julia Belluz

West Virginia teachers are on strike again. Here’s why.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Trump is exploiting the Venezuela crisis in order to win the 2020 presidential election

By Alex Ward

Watch the Today show interview newly elected Mayor Bernie Sanders in 1981

By Emily Stewart

Green Book is a Best Picture frontrunner. Should it be?

By Alissa Wilkinson, Todd VanDerWerff, and 1 other

Payless is closing all its US stores

By Gaby Del Valle

Trump says the “Radical Left” is behind state lawsuit over emergency declaration

By Emily Stewart

Amy Klobuchar doesn’t think America is ready for Medicare-for-all and free college yet

By Li Zhou

How one NPR host is changing the way we hear the news

By Anna North

McCabe: When I opened a case against Trump, I briefed top Republicans. They didn’t object.

By Aaron Rupar

Black Panther was 2018’s most important film, whether or not it wins Best Picture

By Alissa Wilkinson, Alex Abad-Santos, and 1 other

North Carolina investigators describe “unlawful” ballot tampering scheme in House election

By Dylan Scott

Karl Lagerfeld transformed what we think wealth looks like

By Eliza Brooke

Hospitals keep ER fees secret. We’re uncovering them.

Reporter Sarah Kliff is collecting emergency room bills as part of a year-long project focused on American health care prices.

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By Joe Posner and Mona Lalwani

Karl Lagerfeld, the iconic Chanel designer, is dead at 85

By Chavie Lieber

“I tried ketamine to treat my depression. Within a day, I felt relief.”

By Alice Levitt

Elizabeth Warren’s ambitious plan to fight the opioid epidemic, explained

By German Lopez

The biggest questions about the 2020 Democratic primary, answered

By Dylan Scott

Depictions of mental illness can save lives. But A Star Is Born gets one thing very wrong.

By Jennifer Michael Hecht

We asked 11 Senate Republicans if they support giving federal contractors back pay

By Li Zhou

Hit by a city bus — and hit with a $27,660 city hospital bill

By Sarah Kliff

Bernie Sanders is running for president again. This time, he’s a frontrunner.

By Tara Golshan and Li Zhou

WhatsApp is at risk in India. So are free speech and encryption.

By Kurt Wagner

16 states sue the Trump administration over national emergency declaration

By Li Zhou

Trump just issued an ultimatum to the Venezuelan military: abandon Maduro or else

By Alex Ward

The Oscars gift bags are full of THC, CBD, and therapy to calm stressed-out celebs

By Rebecca Jennings

Teachers are leading a national workers’ revolt. Oakland may be next.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe vs. President Trump, explained

By Andrew Prokop

We have a new global tally of the insect apocalypse. It’s alarming.

By Brian Resnick

There’s good news about the flu vaccine this year, especially for kids

By Julia Belluz
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