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Covid tongue? Why new Covid-19 symptoms keep popping up.

Scientists say they still have more to learn about the symptoms of Covid-19 infections, long Covid, and the new variants.

By Umair Irfan

Senate Republicans are trying to drag out the stimulus process in the middle of a national emergency

Republicans are doing what they can to delay passage of the Covid-19 relief bill.

By Li Zhou

Texas’s power disaster is a warning sign for the US

America’s power grid is not ready.

By Madeline Marshall

You got a vaccine. Walgreens got your data.

Retail pharmacies are now giving out Covid-19 vaccines, and some of them are using it as an opportunity to profit off your information.

By Sara Morrison

An “emotional” moment at an NSC meeting shows why withdrawing from Afghanistan is so hard

The Biden administration wants a professional, dispassionate process during its Afghanistan review.

By Alex Ward

NFTs, explained

Artists, influencers, and the NBA are making millions from non-fungible tokens.

By Terry Nguyen

WandaVision’s series finale sets up the future of Wanda and the MCU

Spoiler alert!

By Alex Abad-Santos

Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon is a sumptuous fantasy — but it makes a mess of Southeast Asian culture

The animated fantasy is a gorgeous, if generic, vehicle for a great Disney princess.

By Aja Romano

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The surge of anti-Asian violence

The United States is stumbling through two racial reckonings at once. Author Jeff Chang says it’s an inflection point centuries in the making.

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By Melinda Fakuade March 5

The latest QAnon-inspired threat on the Capitol was thankfully a dud

By Aaron Rupar March 4

Tons of K-pop artists have been purged from Spotify. It’s part of a much bigger problem.

By Aja Romano March 4

Pence’s new op-ed pushes same election fraud lies that inspired the January 6 insurrection

By Aaron Rupar March 4

SPACs, the investment term you won’t stop hearing about, explained

By Rani Molla March 4

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A West Virginia pharmacist on how the state became a vaccine success story

By Drew Massey March 4

Why did Jack Dorsey buy Jay-Z’s failed music service?

By Peter Kafka March 4

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“No healing without the truth”: How a federal commission could help America understand systemic racism

By Rachel Ramirez March 4

The psychedelic roots of Christianity

By Sean Illing March 4

Why public shaming of vaccinations is a bad idea

By Alex Abad-Santos March 4

Why WandaVision has become a lightning rod in pop culture discourse

By Emily VanDerWerff March 4

The problem for Paramount+ (and every other streamer)? Everyone already has Netflix.

By Peter Kafka and Rani Molla March 4

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House Democrats’ massive voting rights bill, explained

By Ella Nilsen March 3

The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, explained

By Sean Collins March 3

Angelo Quinto’s family says he died after police pinned him by his neck. Police deny they did anything wrong.

By Rachel Ramirez March 3

Google is done with cookies, but that doesn’t mean it’s done tracking you

By Sara Morrison March 3

The pandemic caused a record drop in carbon emissions. Then they bounced back.

By Lili Pike March 3

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How to destroy the suburbs

Vox's Jerusalem Demsas joins Matt and Dara to talk about the fight against exclusionary zoning

Poll: People favor expansive Covid-19 relief over a targeted bipartisan package

By Li Zhou March 3

Republicans are trying to exchange a minimum wage hike for a crackdown on undocumented workers

By Nicole Narea March 3

QAnon believers think Trump will be inaugurated again on March 4

By Nicole Narea March 3

The union vote that could change Amazon forever

By Jason Del Rey March 3

The race to become a Clubhouse influencer

By Peter Kafka March 3

The Keystone XL pipeline is officially dead. Here’s what Biden and Trudeau should do next.

By Jariel Arvin March 3

Covid-19 cases are down, vaccinations are up. But the US shouldn’t declare victory yet.

By Dylan Scott March 3

Covid-19 vaccines are finally, truly coming for every American adult soon

By German Lopez March 3

Malaria is notoriously hard to vaccinate against. A new vaccine technology might change that.

By Kelsey Piper March 3

Dr. Seuss is a beloved icon who also drew some extremely racist stuff

By Constance Grady March 3

The Cuomo sexual harassment allegations are a test for Democrats

By Anna North March 3

How museum gift shops decide what to sell

By Antonella Crescimbeni March 3

The key ingredient that could hold back vaccine manufacturing

By Rebecca Heilweil March 3

Biden bombed Iranian proxies to stop strikes on US troops. There was just another attack.

By Alex Ward March 3

The growing evidence that the Covid-19 vaccines can reduce transmission, explained

By Kelsey Piper March 3

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The danger of the new skepticism

"Question everything, right?" is the new mantra for some. But social echo chambers have propelled "healthy" skepticism into surreal terrain.

By Eleanor Cummins March 3

The future of QAnon, explained by 8 experts

By Sean Illing March 3

Your tweet goes viral. Here come the companies asking you to sell their crap.

By Rebecca Jennings March 3

“It all happened so fast”: 3 people on getting the Covid-19 vaccine by chance

By Maryam Gamar March 3

Choreographed sex, 6 feet apart

By Abigail Glasgow March 3