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ccahill / Getty Why Elite-College Admissions Matter
A conversation with Annie Lowrey about how to diversify these schools—and by extension, America’s elite
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty AI Companies Are Trying to Have It Both Ways
In agreeing to guardrails, industry leaders are nodding to the possible risks of their creations without pausing their aggressive competition.
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Alex Grimm / Getty The Women’s World Cup Is About More Than Soccer
A short guide to help you get into the game
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Warner Bros. Pictures How Contradictions Power Barbie
The film argues for Barbie as “not just a product, but a protagonist,” Shirley Li says.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty The Wild-Card Candidates
A guide to those 2024 contenders holding on to the spotlight despite low odds of winning the race
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Fatih Aktas / Anadolu Agency via Getty What This Smoky Summer Means for Kids
Smoke is not only a health hazard. It also cuts into the summer rituals that give children’s days meaning, texture, and fun.
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Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty How Hollywood’s Businessmen Got It So Wrong
A conversation with Xochitl Gonzalez about who really broke the entertainment industry
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Peter Cade / Getty Why the Remote-Work Debate Stays So Heated
The conversation often foregrounds large-scale issues such as productivity and company culture, but the question of where an employee works is intensely personal.
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John Nowak / Adult Swin / Everett A Canceled Comedy Gem
Entertainment musts from Alan Taylor
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Weferling / ullstein bild / Getty Are We There Yet?
What traveling with my parents as an adult taught me
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Getty Images What Happens If UPS Goes on Strike
Americans rely on delivery workers—and come August, hundreds of thousands of UPS workers could walk off the job.
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Scott Olson / Getty What Trump’s Court Filing Could Mean for 2024
The former president's lawyers are attempting to use his presidential candidacy to delay prosecution.
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Michael Duva / Getty Images Boiling the Ocean
Between record-setting heat and warming ocean water, this summer feels like the start of an unsettling new era.
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Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty The Future of the ‘Great Resignation’
The latest jobs data suggest that workers may be losing some of the leverage they gained during the pandemic.
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Natasha Moustache / TAS23 / Getty The Taylor Swift–Joan Didion Effect
Entertainment musts from Elaina Plott Calabro
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The Endless Cycle of Social Media
A conversation with Charlie Warzel about the rise of Meta's Threads—and what it could take for the platform to succeed
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Biden’s Plan B for Student Debt
Since the Supreme Court struck down his forgiveness plan, the president has been moving fast, but little about this process will be quick.
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Jim Watson / AFP How Musk and Biden Are Changing the Media
This unlikely tag team has helped kill the demand and the means for journalists to brand themselves.
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Wesley Hitt / Getty Images Play a Game of (Atlantic-Themed) Trivia for the Fourth
A brief themed diversion. Plus: What to read if you want to read something new but only have short stretches of time.
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Barbara Alper / Getty Short Novels to Dip Into This Summer
You can stumble into them and stumble back out, enriched, a few hours later.
