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More Americans are taking jobs without employer benefits like health care or paid vacation

An astonishing one in three US workers does gig work now.

Why Shang-Chi’s success matters — and why it shouldn’t

Shang-Chi is a victory for representation. Quantifying what that means is complicated.

How to think about hurricane recovery, according to 3 experts

The history of hurricanes like Katrina and Ida says a lot about America’s future.

One of the worst public health dangers of the past century has finally been eradicated 

One hundred years after its invention, leaded gasoline for cars has at long last been phased out worldwide.

You can buy stuff online, but getting it is another story

Supply chain delays, shortages, and delivery issues are here to stay.

How safe is it for kids to go to school during delta?

And 8 other questions families have this fall, answered by experts.

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The four-day workweek

The pandemic has changed how we think about work. Vox’s Anna North says it might be time to change how much we work, too.

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How your favorite jeans might be fueling a human rights crisis

Cotton’s connection to forced labor by Uyghurs in Xinjiang ought to have you rethinking fast fashion.

What’s causing California’s unprecedented wildfires

How Shang-Chi’s post-credits scenes shape the future of the MCU

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Service workers now have another thankless job: Checking vaccine statuses

Texas’s radical anti-abortion law, explained

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How the US created a disaster in Afghanistan

The new digital driver’s licenses from Apple sound slightly creepy

What banning abortion at 6 weeks really means

The Amazon rainforest’s most dogged defenders are in peril

Why America can’t fix its Covid-19 testing problems

Still Mad is a sweeping, thrilling survey of the writers who built second-wave feminism

Kick off the fall movie season with September’s 7 buzziest films

It’s incredibly hard to know what you should pay for secondhand clothes

The Jeopardy hosting saga has become a cautionary morality tale

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​​Matt is joined by David Shor, Head of Data Science at OpenLabs R&D to discuss the causes and implications of polling errors in recent election cycles

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How oysters can stop a flood

The Ted Lasso backlash was inevitable

Welcome to the bigger, bolder, and maybe overcrowded MCU

He’s All That is a Hallmark movie for Gen Z

One Good Thing: This Chinese dance show is the only thing I care about

Arizona launches a bold new experiment to limit racist convictions

NATO allies are preparing for a future without America’s “forever wars”

Amazon’s favorite electric vehicle company is going public at a very tricky time

Why Hurricane Ida has been so devastating to the Gulf Coast

Why false claims about Covid-19 vaccines and infertility are so powerful

20 years after Aaliyah’s death, her story only feels more tragic

Should vaccinated people worry about long Covid?

Pandemic unemployment insurance is ending at maybe the worst possible time

What do hurricane categories mean?

Hurricane Ida could ravage the Covid-strained Gulf Coast

The helplessness of being an Afghanistan War vet

ISIS-K, explained by an expert

Clint Smith III on confronting slavery’s legacy in America

Apple has changed its App Store rules, and Apple’s critics aren’t satisfied

How an unsolved murder and a public housing crisis led to Candyman