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Why Was the Chief of Staff for a Leading Republican Senate Candidate on a Group Chat With Famous White Nationalists? The Answer Somehow Makes It Even Worse. -- Ben Jacobs

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Tina Fey's Surprisingly Mature Netflix Show Is Finding a Way to Keep Things Fresh as It Ages -- Sam Adams

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Perhaps the Most Illuminating Reaction to the $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Is From the Jan. 6ers Hoping to Access It -- Lionel Augustine and Matteson Epstein

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Donald Trump Is Pretending to Be a Knicks Fan for One Reason and One Reason Only -- Luke Winkie

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Trump's First Big Vindictive Prosecution Just Went Up in Smoke -- Shirin Ali

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Apple TV's Best New Show Is a Miracle. Its Latest Episodes Prove It. -- Rebecca Onion

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He Became America's Most Entitled, Ridiculed Actor. He's Found a Brilliant Way to Come Back. -- Heather Schwedel

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They're Giant. They're Cuddly-Looking. I Traveled to a City Where They've Taken Over—and Learned the Startling Truth About What They're Facing. -- Erick Trickey

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They Attacked a Mosque. They Also Hated Jews. But the San Diego Killers Had Another Target Nobody Is Talking About. -- Jill Filipovic

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Stanford Was Once a Cradle of Innovation. What It's Turned Into Is Something Else Entirely. -- Laura Miller

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A MAGA Troll Almost Ran a Whole State's Public School System Into the Ground. They Might Just Elect Another One. -- Laura Pappano

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Trump's Iran War Is Turning Into an Even Bigger Mess -- Fred Kaplan

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I Was Devastated to Learn I Was Having a Baby Boy. I'm Far From Alone. -- Allison Raskin -- The real causes of gender disappointment have nothing to do with your child.

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true - She's an Antisemite, a Sex Therapist, and a Democrat. Why Are Republicans Funding Her Campaign? Christina Cauterucci - Maureen Galindo, the sex therapist Democrat who called for Zionists to be castrated in camps, is getting Republican funding. Why?

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Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts Remain Strangely Clear-Eyed About One Kind of Racism - Alexis Romero and Mark Joseph Stern

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