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A divorce lawyer’s guide to staying together

By Sean Illing

“Schools are segregated because white people want them that way"

By Sean Illing

A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes

By Sean Illing November 23

How the baby boomers, not millennials, screwed America

By Sean Illing November 21

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A historian on our broken election system: “it’s run by people with stake in the outcome”

By Hope Reese November 21

The biggest lie we still teach in American history classes

By Sean Illing November 20

What Machiavelli can teach us about Trump and the decline of liberal democracy

By Sean Illing November 16

We could end factory farming this century

By Kelsey Piper November 15

Epistocracy: a political theorist’s case for letting only the informed vote

By Sean Illing November 9

Is America’s political violence problem getting worse? I asked 7 experts.

By Sean Illing October 30

Why marriages succeed — or fail

By Sean Illing October 28

David Frum on why Republicans chose Trumpocracy over democracy

By Sean Illing October 26

Why Christian conservatives supported Trump — and why they might regret it

By Sean Illing October 24

What Nate Silver’s learned about forecasting elections

By Ezra Klein October 23

Is the media making American politics worse?

By Ezra Klein October 22

Why DNA test results are actually pretty fuzzy

By Daniel Villarreal October 19

Cosmologist Martin Rees gives humanity a 50-50 chance of surviving the 21st century

By Sean Illing October 18

How meditation and psychedelic drugs could fix tribalism

By Sean Illing October 17

Can consumer choices ward off the worst effects of climate change? An expert explains.

By Gaby Del Valle October 12

Team of sycophants: a presidential historian on Trump’s White House

By Sean Illing October 11

Bullshit jobs: why they exist and why you might have one

By Sean Illing October 10

How YouTube icon Hank Green found hope in a story of viral fame, politics, and giant robots

By Aja Romano October 8

Why this political scientist thinks the Democrats have to fight dirty

By Sean Illing October 7

How algorithms are controlling your life

By Sean Illing October 1

Proof that Americans are lying about their sexual desires

By Sean Illing September 30

Americans have a longstanding love of magical thinking

By Sean Illing September 23

Why this economist thinks public education is mostly pointless

By Sean Illing September 20

A feminist makes the case against feminism

By Sean Illing September 18

A Silicon Valley stylist shares her secrets: Allbirds are out, scruff is in, and khakis were never okay

By Chavie Lieber September 14

DeRay Mckesson on Trump-era activism: “We can’t just be fighting the people in seats of power”

By Hope Reese September 11

“The fish rots from the head”: a historian on the unique corruption of Trump’s White House

By Sean Illing September 7

Gary Shteyngart on his new book, which explores the self-delusion of Wall Street bankers

By Hope Reese September 6

Race and football: why NFL owners are so scared of Colin Kaepernick

By Sean Illing September 6

Women are running — and winning — in 2018

Brianna Wu survived Gamergate. Now she’s running for Congress.

By Anna North September 4

Why romantic comedies matter

By Alissa Wilkinson, Aja Romano, and 3 others August 29

Why psychedelic drugs could transform how we treat depression and mental illness

By Sean Illing August 25

Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation, explained

10 legal experts on why Trump can’t pardon his way out of the Russia investigation

By Sean Illing August 21

The case against empathy

By Sean Illing August 20

The author of Dopesick on how we’re still failing opioid users

By Hope Reese August 14

“They have no allegiance to liberal democracy”: an expert on antifa explains the group

By Sean Illing August 13

Why Buddhism is true

By Sean Illing August 10

Tech companies use “persuasive design” to get us hooked. Psychologists say it’s unethical.

By Chavie Lieber August 8

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