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The Waco tragedy, explained

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How Stephen Smith’s murder is connected to the Murdaugh family

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The case for Rick and Morty

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The Broadway musical getting protested by neo-Nazis

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The rise of the TikTok scold

Season 4 of Succession is going to be a bloodbath

How BookTok makes money

A bioethics professor weighs in on the Last of Us finale

Time doesn’t have to be money

Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ credits scene teases a future that might never come

J.K. Rowling’s transphobia: A history

America’s bad bet on expanding legal sports gambling

What YouTube hustle gurus are really selling you

Scream’s lasting legacy is its final girls

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5 winners and 4 losers from the 2023 Oscars

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The Vanderpump Rules cheating scandal, for people who have never watched the show

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Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

A guide to this year’s Oscars.

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One year later, Chris Rock addresses the Will Smith Oscars slap

The biting, witty melancholy of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn

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The Delphi murders were a local tragedy. Then they became “true crime.”

SNAP boosts kept millions out of poverty during Covid. Now they’re gone.

Hailey Bieber, Selena Gomez, and the Easter egg-ification of the Hollywood feud

Alex Murdaugh sentenced to two life terms for murdering his wife and son

Alex Murdaugh stands guilty of killing his wife and son. That’s just scratching the surface.

Party Down’s new season says hustle culture is a scam

America’s school lunch crisis

How the Great Recession paved the way for influencers to inherit the earth

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The surprising lesson from a century of Oscar scandals

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What’s the future of Black horror?

Black teen girls are the curators of culture

The shadowy puzzle-box pleasures of Chinese spy thriller Hidden Blade

Cars transformed America. They also made people more vulnerable to the police.

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This is the most populist Oscars in a long time

Netflix’s Perfect Match is a panopticon of sex and humiliation

Marvel is in a rut

R. Kelly has received his second jail sentence for sex crimes. Here are all the sexual misconduct allegations against him.

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Why in the world do we hand out awards to adults?

Ordinary Black lives should be remembered, too 

What really happens if a bear does cocaine, explained by an ursinologist

Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

Brad Pitt was the only winner of the Aniston-Jolie tabloid battle