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Fiona Jackson-Downes / Getty The Hidden Toll of Surviving Layoffs
The workers who remain deal with stress, guilt, and a changed workplace.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Donald Trump Is a National-Security Risk
The GOP candidate should not be given intelligence briefings.
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Matt Cardy / Getty Could a TikTok Ban Actually Happen?
The push to curtail the platform has bipartisan support, but it faces major hurdles.
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Kevin Winter / Getty What Jimmy Kimmel Did Right
A conversation with Shirley Li about a thankless job on an actually normal night
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Moviestore Collection Ltd / Alamy Ben Affleck Is More Than a Dunkin’ Donuts Meme
Culture and entertainment musts from Gilad Edelman
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Bloomberg / Getty Biden Is Serious About His Candy-Bar Crusade
“Shrinkflation” has become a convenient target for the president.
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Klaus Vedfelt / Getty The Republican Coping Goes Into Overdrive
Many GOP elites seem to be in disbelief about Trump’s success.
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Jason Colston / Getty America’s False Virus Equivalence
A conversation with Katherine J. Wu about the risks of treating COVID-19 like the flu
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China News Service / Getty It’s Time to End the Election Wishcasting
Trump versus Biden is inevitable, and everything is at stake.
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Jane Tyska / Digital First Media / East … How Anti-Semitism Threatens American Democracy
A conversation with Franklin Foer about our April cover story
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R.Tsubin / Getty A 17th-Century Nun’s Feminist Manifesto
Culture and entertainment musts from Gisela Salim-Peyer
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David Ake / Getty Democracy’s Dark Winter
While a Russian dictator’s war goes on, venal would-be autocrats game the U.S. political and legal system.
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Bernd Weibrod / picture alliance / Getty A Leap Day Tradition With a Dark Side
The calendar blip has led to some unusual rituals in past decades.
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Brandon Bell / Getty A Few Theories on Why Dean Phillips Is Still in the Race
At what point does a “long-shot candidacy” tip into a pure vanity spectacle?
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Thomas Winz / Getty Two Theories for Americans’ Dire Economic Outlook
A conversation with Rogé Karma about what economic measures fail to grasp
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Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Trump Delivers Another Autocratic Tirade
But many Americans seem to have gotten used to it.
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Mary Altaffer / AP An Insightful and Truly Fun Cooking Show
Culture and entertainment musts from Matteo Wong
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Courtesy of Elaine Godfrey Go Ahead, Get a Pet Rat
Let them burrow into your sweatshirt and into your heart.
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Win McNamee / Getty What Nikki Haley Is Trying to Prove
She’s highly unlikely to win, but she’s looking to send a message.
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OsakaWayne Studios / Getty When Private Equity Comes for a Public Good
Adam Harris discusses how financiers could change the child-care industry.
