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The bad vibes economy

By Emily Stewart June 8

The sexual abuse scandal rocking the Southern Baptist Convention, explained

By Emily St. James June 7

What the deepfake controversy about this Chinese actor says about conspiratorial thinking

By Aja Romano June 6

The end of history is history

By Sean Illing June 6

Cornel West’s pragmatic America

By Sean Illing June 5

Might I suggest not listening to famous people about money?

By Emily Stewart June 2

Two Good Things: Sad kids’ movies about magical seals

By Emily St. James June 1

Features

The philosopher who resisted despair

Albert Camus and the search for solace in a cruel age.

By Sean Illing May 28

Mass shootings typically lead to looser gun laws, not stronger ones

By Zack Beauchamp May 27

How bad could the monkeypox outbreak get?

By Keren Landman May 27

Why gun control feels out of reach — and why there’s still hope

By Aja Romano May 27

With Ricky Gervais’s new special, Netflix yet again suffers transphobic fools

By Aja Romano May 26

Masculinity, explained by WWE

By Emily St. James May 25

The rise of the sadboi big man

By Emily St. James May 25

What we know so far about monkeypox

By Keren Landman May 23

Why the Depp-Heard trial is so much worse than you realize

By Aja Romano May 20

Why must we pay to have a slightly less miserable time at the airport?

By Emily Stewart May 19

A neo-Nazi idea to spark a race war inspired the Buffalo killings

By Zack Beauchamp May 16

Crypto believers insist this is all worth it. Is it?

By Emily Stewart May 16

A nurse was just sentenced to 3 years of probation for a lethal medical error

By Keren Landman May 13

4 questions about long Covid experts wish they could answer

By Keren Landman May 12

The new Russian offensive in Ukraine isn’t going much better than the previous one

By Zack Beauchamp May 12

Biden’s American Rescue Plan worsened inflation. The question is how much.

By Andrew Prokop May 12

In an uncivil age, calls for “civility” are about squashing effective protest

By Aja Romano May 12

The first spot in the Democrats’ presidential nominating calendar is up for grabs

By Andrew Prokop May 11

Why Americans aren’t happy with their sex lives

By Sean Illing May 11

The stock market’s panicking, but you don’t have to

By Emily Stewart May 11

The philosopher who warned us about loneliness and totalitarianism

By Sean Illing May 8

After Roe: 9 legal experts on what rights the Supreme Court might target next

By Sean Illing May 5

Office snacks might be dying off. Good.

By Emily Stewart May 5

A nurse made a fatal error. Why was she charged with a crime?

By Keren Landman May 2

Ron DeSantis is following a trail blazed by a Hungarian authoritarian

By Zack Beauchamp April 28

7 ocean mysteries scientists haven’t solved yet

By Brian Resnick April 27

Why Republicans are favored to win the Senate — and how Democrats could stop them

By Andrew Prokop April 26

Hollywood’s hot new trend: Parents who say they’re sorry

By Emily St. James April 25

Michael Lewis on why Americans don’t trust experts

By Sean Illing April 24

Russia’s offensive in the Donbas can’t make up for its failure in Kyiv

By Zack Beauchamp April 22

The right’s moral panic over “grooming” invokes age-old homophobia

By Aja Romano April 21

Companies lose your data and then nothing happens

By Emily Stewart April 21

Shanghai’s zero Covid nightmare

By Zack Beauchamp April 21