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Trump's Latest Under-the-Radar Mass Deportation Moves Are Truly Creepy -- Shirin Ali

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How Netflix Broke TV's Most Important Promise -- Sam Adams

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It's Not J.D. Vance, Stephen Miller, or Marco Rubio. Someone Else Is Transforming Trump's World Right in Front of Us. -- Andrea Bernstein

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Trump's Saudi Nuclear Pact Is the Latest Sign That Israel's U.S. Support Is Tanking -- Fred Kaplan

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There Are People Trying to Get the "Explosive Diarrhea" on Purpose. I Know Exactly What They're Thinking. -- Mallary Tenore Tarpley

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The Real Trump Scandal in the Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Story

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The Big Bang Theory Has a Bizarre New Spin-Off. It's Surprisingly Great. -- June Thomas

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One Movie Was More Prescient Than Any Other About Cancel Culture's Bleak Afterlife -- Luke Winkie

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There's Only One Thing Standing in the Way of the Tate Brothers' Extradition. It's, Uh, Not Good. -- Christina Cauterucci

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Ironically Agricultural Name for Some White-Collar Milieus (Nine Letters) -- Quiara Vasquez

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I've Studied Hundreds of Mass Shooters. Parents, I Hope You Know the Story of Colin Gray. -- Nina E. Cerfolio

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An Exquisite New Book Tackles a Subject That Was All the Rage in the '80s and '90s -- Laura Miller

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She Won an Oscar—and Received Years of Backlash. Now She's Finally Stopped Trying to Play Herself. -- Isaac Butler

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The Online Right Bet Against the Box-Office Success of Our Era's Most Successful Filmmaker. It Did Not Go Well. -- Sam Adams

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Elon Musk Is Furious That Lupita Nyong'o Is Playing Helen of Troy. I Asked a Classicist How She Really Looked. -- Nadira Goffe

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dear prudence -- My Neighbor Has Declared Himself the "Waste Manager" of Our Building. Things Are Getting Weird.

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pay dirt -- My Best Friend and I Are Both Single Mothers. We Thought We Figured Out a Trick to Make It Easier. Big Mistake.

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Jenée Desmond-Harris -- My Husband Just Announced His Beachwear Plan for Our Vacation. God Save Us All.

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Jessica Stoya -- My Job Takes Me Away to Sea. I Gave My Boyfriend Permission to Use a Coping Mechanism. I Wish I Hadn't.

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Nicole Chung -- Our School System Is Making a Big Change in the Name of Equity. I Can't Tell How Bad This Is Going to Be.

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Kristin Wong -- I Knew My Family Member Was Unlikely to Pay Me Back When I Lent Them a Large Sum. But I Didn't Expect This.

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I Can't Believe This New Hegseth Proposal Isn't a Parody - Fred Kaplan - This idea is both laughable and dangerous.

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