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She's Politically Polarizing, She's Foulmouthed, and She Has a Controversial Past. There's a Reason She Just Broke Touring Records. -- Scaachi Koul

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She Was an Architect of Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal. Now, She's Watching Trump's War in Horror. -- Ian Prasad Philbrick

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Two Generations Ago, It Wasn't So Weird to Be Naked in Front of Other People. Now Everyone Hates It. I Went to the Only Place to Find Out Why. -- Rowan Jacobsen

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The Supreme Court Just Opened the Door to a 2028 Nightmare -- Jim Newell

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It's a Plague on Bars Across the Country. And Without a Serious Intervention, It's Only Going to Get Worse. -- Courtney Iseman

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 Gives Its Predecessor a Much-Needed Makeover -- Dana Stevens

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The Slaying of the Voting Rights Act by the Coward Samuel Alito -- Richard L. Hasen

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Elon Musk Says He's Suing OpenAI Because They Abandoned Their Mission. I Think His Real Reason Is Much More Embarrassing. -- Tony Ho Tran

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I See All the Accomplished Women in My Life Suffering Through the Same Thing With Their Boyfriends. I Don't Want to Be Next. -- advice by steffi cao

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Trump Is Going After Jimmy Kimmel Again. What's Likely to Happen Next Isn't Pretty. -- Nitish Pahwa

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The U.K. Perfected a Certain Kind of Political Photograph. Why Don't We Have Them Here? -- David Mack

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King Charles Told Trump What He Thought of Iran. Then Trump Did the Positively Unimaginable. -- Imogen West-Knights

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King Charles Did Something Remarkable. That Should Worry All of Us. -- Ben Jacobs

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A.J. Daulerio -- My Kid Is Now Banned From All Family Functions Until Further Notice. He Doesn't Deserve This!

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true - Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak - My Crush Keeps Doing the Weirdest Hot-and-Cold Maneuver. I'm Not Sure What It Means.

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Laura Helmuth -- We Planned Some Fun, Harmless Social Events for Our Office. Then We Got a Call From HR.

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Isabelle Kohn -- Help! My Friend Volunteered to Dog-Sit for Months. I'm Horrified by What I Caught Him Doing on My Secret Camera.

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Nadira Goffe -- I Read My Ex-Husband's Obituary. He Told a Huge Lie—Involving Me.

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Jessica Stoya -- I've Been Having the Time of My Life Sexting. But I Have a Shameful Secret About Who It's With.

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A.J. Daulerio -- My In-Laws Watched Our Kids While We Were Away. What They Let Them Do at the Beach Was a Breach of Our Trust.

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Laura Helmuth -- I Was Ruthlessly Kicked Out of a Group at Work. The Time Has Come for My Revenge.

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There's Something More Sinister Beneath Trump's Ballroom Obsession - Shirin Ali

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I Was Wrong About Lena Dunham -- Sonia Saraiya -- Over a decade ago, when Girls premiered, I was one of the many voices who reflexively loathed its creator. Looking back, I know who I was really attacking.

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An Acclaimed New Show Somehow Combines Stephen King, Atlanta, Parks and Rec, and Jaws -- Sam Adams

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Wanna Be Startin' Somethin? Criticize the Michael Jackson Biopic. -- Culture Gabfest

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We're Taking This "Mormon" Trend Too Far -- ICYMI

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Even If the Michael Jackson Movie Didn't Have a Responsibility to Address the Allegations, There's a Bigger Issue -- Sam Adams

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Email Signatures Are Supposed to Be Forgettable and Mundane. These People Refuse to Abide. -- Alison Green -- One woman signed her emails with her entire vacation itinerary.

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One State Has an Ingenious New Strategy for Blocking the Opening of an ICE Detention Warehouse - Madeleine O'Neill - Tucked away in rural western Maryland, past a dead-end road cut off by railroad tracks, a stream runs cool and clear over a ledge dotted with snails.

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Kimmel, Comey, and a Would-Be Shooter: All Props in the Same Play -- Political Gabfest

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