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January 20, 2016
Sasha Belenky
Astronomer who killed Pluto says he’s discovered a new planet to make up for it.
January 20, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
I repeat: Stop putting Q-Tips in your ears.
January 20, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Grace Coddington is leaving Vogue, at a time when the best fashion magazine is Instagram.
January 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
Russell Westbrook is out here destroying worlds.
January 20, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt has gone too far.
January 20, 2016
Chris Jennings
A French Communist Utopia in Texas
How one group's search for the promised land in 1848 became a complete disaster
January 19, 2016
Alex Shephard
Watch members of Coldplay reminisce about the time David Bowie told them they were bad.
January 19, 2016
Daniel Raimi
California’s Methane Leak: Climate Disaster or Opportunity?
How a prominent leak like Aliso Canyon could get the EPA to clean up bigger leaks all over the U.S.
January 19, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ben Carson is gunning for the dad vote.
January 19, 2016
Elaine Teng
The Academy president is heartbroken about #OscarsSoWhite.
January 19, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The sickness of Japan, in one groveling apology by the oldest boy band in the world.
January 19, 2016
Alex Shephard
Which presidential candidates have seen Michael Bay’s new Benghazi movie 13 Hours?
January 19, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
Not a joke: Univision buys The Onion.
January 19, 2016
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
What Is the Constitution For?
Constitutions were a great democratic advance. Unfortunately ours is broken.
January 19, 2016
Jeffrey Zuckerman
Beneath the Pain of Exclusion
Garth Greenwell’s "What Belongs to You" is the Great Gay Novel for our times
January 15, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
This is like that time Faulkner told his daughter, “Nobody remembers Shakespeare’s child.”
January 15, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
Chipotle hopes to save its business with a nationwide emergency food safety training session.
January 15, 2016
Elaine Teng
Brian Bedford, the voice of Disney’s Robin Hood, has died.
January 15, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Astronauts keep almost drowning in space.
January 15, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Nerd dreams do come true.

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